Senior Software Development Engineer (Recipient & Payment Experience)

Remitly

vancouver, metro vancouver regional district, Canada
Full-time
Posted June 06, 2026

Job Description

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to independently design and ship production systems at scale
  • Backend engineering expertise — strong fundamentals in building, scaling, and operating distributed services. Experience with Go is preferred; experience with Java or Kotlin with a genuine interest in adopting Go is also valued
  • Frontend proficiency — comfortable building customer-facing experiences in TypeScript (React or similar). You don't need to be a frontend specialist, but you should be able to own a feature across the stack without handing off at the boundary
  • Experience leading feature development across a team: breaking down work, writing technical specs, coordinating dependencies, and delivering on commitments
  • Strong fundamentals in system design — data modeling, API design, service reliability, and performance. You've made architecture decisions and...