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Job Description: At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money- we're here to move our global customers forward. We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career-we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders. About the Role: We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II (SDE2) to join the Customer Data Platform team within the Identity & Trust organization. This team builds and operates the systems that manage customer data at scale. Our platform runs on AWS and supports high-throughput, high-availability services that are critical to Remitly's products and regulatory obligations. As an SDE2, you will design and build high-quality backend services and APIs across a subset of the team's systems. You will operate independently in code construction, testing, deployment, and maintenance. You will own features end-to-end, handle challenging problems with clear constraints and trade-offs, and contribute to improving system quality, reliability, and performance. You Will: Design and implement modular, maintainable backend services and APIs. Own features or functional areas from technical design through production support. Contribute to design discussions and propose trade-offs for consideration. Work with relational and non-relational databases to implement reliable, performant data access patterns. Improve code quality, testing, deployment, logging, and monitoring practices. Provide thoughtful code and design reviews. Identify and mitigate obvious technical and delivery risks. Partner with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver solutions. Support onboarding of new engineers and contribute to a strong team culture. You Have: Experience with DynamoDB or other large-scale NoSQL data stores. Experience working on distributed systems. Familiarity with multi-tenant or platform-oriented service design. Familiarity with observability and operational best practices. Experience mentoring interns or new hires. Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is $124,000-155,000. In Canada, 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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