Software Development Engineer II- Remittance Transaction Engine
$144,000–$180,000 year
HybridSeattle, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Design and implement scalable, high-quality backend services and APIs at the core of Remitly's transaction processing platform. Contribute to the North Star architecture by building the new unified Transaction Platform Gateway and migrating consumers from legacy gateways to well-designed APIs. Own features end-to-end, translating requirements into technical designs, breaking work into tasks, and delivering with quality including testing, monitoring, and documentation. Leverage AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery while verifying AI-generated output meets the team's bar for correctness, security, and maintainability. Improve the reliability, observability, and performance of Tier-1 transaction systems and participate in the team's on-call rotation. Partner with product managers and engineers across Remitly to understand consumer needs and translate them into reliable technical solutions.
Required Qualifications
- A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of professional software development experience building and maintaining production backend systems
- Strong programming skills in Go, Kotlin, or similar languages (Java, Python, C++) with a demonstrated ability to learn new technologies
- Proficiency in designing and building distributed systems on cloud platforms, particularly AWS
- Experience optimizing how systems are deployed, tested, logged, and monitored; familiarity with CI/CD practices and infrastructure tooling
- Ability to handle ambiguity in feature requirements and business expectations, and to independently drive features from design through delivery
- Proven track record of writing clean, well-tested, modular code and providing thorough code reviews
- Strong collaboration skills; comfortable partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and propose solutions
- Experience using AI tools to accelerate code construction, testing, and documentation in a production environment
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with payments, fintech, or other domains where data correctness and auditability are critical
- Experience with large-scale migrations of live, high-throughput systems (service decomposition, database migrations, API-first re-platforming)
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