Staff Fullstack Software Development Engineer

About the Role

Remitly is building the Remitly Global Card, a card and wallet that give customers a single, trusted place to hold, spend, and move their money, launching across multiple geographies. As a Staff Engineer on the Global Card team, you will set the technical direction for the product end to end: the screens customers see, the APIs behind them, and the services that issue cards, hold balances, and move money. You will take the lead on large, cross-team initiatives, serve as a senior technical voice across product and engineering, and hold the correctness and trust bar a regulated money product demands, all on a team that moves fast and builds with AI in the loop every day, where agentic coding tools are part of how we work, not a side experiment. You will report to the Engineering Director and work in a hybrid capacity from our Arlington, VA office.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of the Global Card product, from customer-facing web and mobile surfaces to the services and integrations that issue cards, hold balances, and move money, taking the lead on large, cross-team initiatives.
• Design and build for scale, solving ambiguous and complex problems using full stack technologies (React, GraphQL, Java/Kotlin) in a regulated environment where reliability, security, and compliance shape engineering decisions.
• Partner with product, design, analytics, and engineering leaders to shape the Card roadmap, advise domain-level planning, and lead design reviews.
• Make AI-native engineering a durable practice on the team: set the bar, own the team's automation as a maintained portfolio, and extend those standards to teams you work closely with.
• Evolve engineering excellence standards (reliability, observability, security, quality) and resolve the long-standing problems that limit scale before they become bottlenecks.
• Raise the engineering bar by mentoring engineers at multiple levels through design and code reviews, and expanding team knowledge and skills.
• Stay hands-on across TypeScript, React/React Native, Java/Kotlin, and Go, and set the standard in code review.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with experience building and operating systems end-to-end.
• 4+ years of hands-on React or React Native development experience, and experience building customer-facing experiences at product scale.
• Proficiency in TypeScript/React (or similar) plus a backend language (Node.js, Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python).
• Experience leading team and cross-team design reviews, and designing for extensibility.
• Experience using AI throughout the software development lifecycle, from authoring agents to drafting technical specs and prototypes, and helping others apply it well.
• Experience with distributed, large-scale systems and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Bonus: Experience in FinTech, lending, or payments industry where reliability, security, and compliance shape engineering decisions.

Pay

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $208,000 - 260,000 USD Annual. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
• Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Continuing education

Schedule

This role operates in a hybrid capacity from our Arlington, VA office, with an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. Managers may set higher expectations based on team needs.