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.
You Will:- 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.
You Have:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- 10+ 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.
Compensation DetailsThe 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. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.
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Our 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
Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, TogetherAt Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates a consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.
