Remitly is on a mission to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial products and services on the planet. For nearly 10 years, we have been tirelessly delivering on our promises to immigrants sending their hard earned money home. Today, we are incredibly proud to have served millions of customers globally with Remitly and our newly launched Passbook app to provide immigrants access to banking. We strive daily to meet our promise to our customers by building peace of mind into everything we do. Join over 1,300 employees across 9 offices who are growing their careers while having a positive impact on people globally.

The Passbook team is a startup within Remitly. We are building a new mobile-first digital bank for immigrants and their families, which was named one of Time's 100 best inventions of 2020. Our team is intensely customer-focused and draws talent from top local startups and other high-growth names like Facebook, Uber and Redfin. It's all the best parts of an early stage company accelerated by the assets and competitive advantage of Remitly.

About the Role:

As a Principal engineer, you will report directly to the Engineering manager for Passbook and be a part of engineering leadership staff. You will contribute to Engineering strategy, recruiting, culture, processes and projects across Passbook and Remitly. This role is perfect for someone looking to have a broad impact, deep ownership and wide operating latitude.

You Will:

• Provide Technical Leadership: use your depth and breadth of experience to lead complex, long term, cross-team engineering efforts. You will be intimately involved in creating and evolving a compelling technical strategy for Passbook engineering in collaboration with other functional and engineering leaders.
• Identify Improvement Opportunities: identify, articulate and help prioritize technical, operational, product and organizational problems that impact the ability of the Passbook engineering team to be a high performing tech organization.
• Solve Broad Problems: Drive and participate in the creation and implementation of solutions to problems facing the engineering team. You will deploy your expertise in technical writing, distributed systems architecture, coding, operational excellence and software development processes to achieve amazing things for the team.
• Be a Cultural Leader: be a role model in upholding Remitly's cultural values and use them as a framework to mentor and coach other engineers across the company to achieve their full potential. You will be deeply involved in setting and hiring against a high engineering talent bar for the team.

You Have:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in one or more general purpose programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, Go, Python or Ruby.
• 8+ years of overall software development experience including leading development of reliable, available and scalable distributed systems (preferably using a Microservices architecture).
• Experience as a technical leader on complex engineering projects with several engineers and working in partnership with one or more partners such as Product Managers, Designers or Data Scientists.
• Experience driving and building long term technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers up to Senior levels.
• Experience with technical interviewing candidates for all levels up to Senior.

Our Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision benefits + 401k plan with company matching
• Company contributions to your HSA or FSA plan, if you choose one
• Continuing education and corridor travel benefits

Remitly is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Remitly. We are committed to nondiscrimination across our global organization and in all of our business operations. Employment is determined based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharge/veteran, pregnancy (including a woman's potential to get pregnant, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability (including the use of a trained dog guide or service animal), HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.