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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Development Engineer - **Company:** Remitly, Inc. - **Location:** Washington, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Code Review, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Payment Systems, PCI Data Security Standards, Software Engineering, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Build Management, Restful APIs, Api Management - **Published:** July 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b10a6077-a4cc-4d95-a7ba-db2778b2bfc8 ## About the Role * 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including designing and operating production distributed systems. * Track record of owning a project end-to-end - from technical design through launch and operation. * Solid backend engineering fundamentals: service-oriented or event-driven architectures, RESTful or async APIs, and relational or distributed databases. * Working knowledge of security and compliance considerations in regulated or sensitive-data environments (fintech, banking, payments, or healthcare a plus). * Comfortable collaborating across engineering, product, and operations to get things done. * Clear written and verbal communication - you can explain a technical decision to both engineers and non-engineers. Nice to Have * Experience building financial products for emerging markets (LATAM, Sub-Saharan Africa, South/Southeast Asia, or similar). * Exposure to payments infrastructure: card rails, ACH, real-time payment networks, mobile money, or digital wallets. * Familiarity with AML/KYC frameworks, PCI-DSS, or SOC 2 in a software context. * Experience integrating with partner financial institutions, fintechs, or licensed payment processors via API. * Interest in growing toward broader technical leadership - mentoring, RFC authorship, cross-team design work. ## Description As a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE3) on the Receiver Products team, you'll design and build core services for a new generation of financial products aimed at the people who receive remittances. You'll take well-scoped, ambiguous problems - from a new savings feature to a new disbursement integration - and turn them into reliable, secure, production-grade systems used by millions of people. This is a strong fit for an engineer who wants real ownership: you'll drive the technical design for significant pieces of the receiver product surface, working closely with a Principal Engineer, your engineering manager, and product partners, while mentoring other engineers and raising the bar for the team's technical practices.What You'll Do Design & Build Receiver Financial Services * Design and deliver backend services and features that power receivers' ability to save and spend money in their home countries - from account structures to transaction flows. * Write clear technical designs and RFCs for your own projects, incorporating feedback from senior and principal engineers. * Make sound day-to-day technical decisions on service boundaries, data models, and API contracts within an established architecture. Integrate with the Remitly Money-Movement Platform * Build integrations between receiver-side capabilities and Remitly's global money-movement infrastructure - disbursements, FX, liquidity, and compliance systems. * Ensure safe, consistent hand-offs between send-side and receive-side flows, with strong data consistency and auditability. * Follow and help refine platform standards for cross-service communication, idempotency, and failure handling. Build with Security & Compliance in Mind * Apply security and compliance requirements from the start, partnering with Compliance and Security Engineering on AML, KYC, and local regulatory needs. * Implement least-privilege access, encryption at rest and in transit, and audit trails as standard practice. * Participate in threat-modeling exercises and resolve vulnerabilities in the services you own. Operate at Scale * Build services that perform reliably under real production load and scale gracefully as the receiver base grows. * Help define and meet SLOs and error budgets for the services you own. * Carry on-call responsibilities, write runbooks, and contribute to blameless post-mortems that improve the team's operational practices. Grow the Team * Mentor SDE1/SDE2 engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback. * Actively participate in design reviews - both giving and receiving feedback - and help raise the technical bar on your team. * Partner closely with your engineering manager and product manager to turn ambiguous problems into executable technical plans. ## Related Videos - [Rest API Antipatterns](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100208-rest-api-antipatterns) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Are Code Reviews Worth It? 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