Qualifications:

• A BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of experience as a software developer.
• Experience working on and shipping full stack features or products and proficiency
  with both back-end and front-end development.
• Understanding of software development practices, system design, software design patterns, and algorithms.

• Familiarity with one or more of JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, PHP and eagerness to learn all of them.
• Interest in front-end development, especially in following technologies: React, React Native, TypeScript.
• Familiarity with SQL databases
• Familiarity or interest in learning about operations, especially Kubernetes and Prometheus.
• Ability to effectively collaborate and work closely with application developers and product managers.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You focus on building a great product based on metrics rather than delivering features.

Nice to have:

• Product and user oriented mindset
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus
• Distributed tracing
• Experience with AWS ecosystem

What you will do:

• Work in a product team with a DevOps mindset. 
• You’ll be responsible for working with UI (React), backend (Java/Kotlin) and supporting them in production.
• You’ll work in a data centric organization setting up measurable experiments around your work.
• From time to time you’ll need to work on other projects. Some older ones written in PHP, but also some newer ones written in Kotlin, Node.js or Go. 

Are you looking to grow, own meaningful projects, and work in a compelling problem space?

At Remitly, we help immigrant communities around the world send over $6 billion a year to their loved ones. Sending money is faster, easier, and costs less with our all-digital money transfer platform. Our vision is to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial service products on the planet. At Remitly, your work has a direct and positive impact on people around the globe. Your work matters, every day.

Does working on a team focused on accelerating Remitly’s growth by focusing on improving the customer experience excite you? Are you interested in working across the mobile, web, and service stack? Would you be excited to learn about and improve Remitly’s business and customer experience, thinking not just about code, but also collaborating on our product and user experience?

On the International Product team, you’ll be focusing on executing a rapid test and learn agenda with the goal of improving our customer onboarding experience resulting in an improvement in our customer acquisition and retention. You’ll be working with a passionate cross-functional team of marketers, analysts, UX designers, product managers and engineers dedicated to understanding our customers’ needs and tailoring the customer experience. You will iterate and work in several systems that power multiple customer touchpoints including but not limited to our react based content management platform and our customer facing remittance product. As part of this unique team, you will make a meaningful impact every day on both our customers and our business.

To succeed in this role, you should enjoy being in a fast-paced startup environment and working hands-on with others across the company. You know how to make good short and long-term trade-offs to enable a quick test and learn cycle, while not sacrificing performence and user experience. You are comfortable in working on different technologies that range in multiple  layers of the software stack.  You have the desire to continuously improve and grow your own technical skills and scope or influence.

Who We Are:

Remitly is an independent digital remittance company that transfers over $6 billion in annualized volume through its proprietary global money transfer network across Africa, Asia, Central, and South America. Its reliable and easy-to-use mobile app makes the process of sending money faster, easier, more transparent and less costly by eliminating the forms, codes, agents, extra time and fees typical of the traditional, century-old money transfer process. Remitly is backed by industry-leading investors, World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC), Naspers' PayU, Silicon Valley Bank, Stripes Group, DFJ, DN Capital, QED Investors, Trilogy Equity Partners, Bezos Expeditions, Founders' Co-Op, and TomorrowVentures. The company is headquartered in Seattle, with additional offices in London, the Philippines, and Nicaragua.