Senior Software Development Engineer
Remitly
Job Description:
About the Role
The Fraud Prevention team builds and operates essential Tier-1 services that prevent tens of millions of dollars in financial losses each year. Fraud owns low-latency risk detection platforms, identity verification experiences, and everything in between. We are now hiring a senior software engineer to help drive impactful system changes such as: self-service features for risk detection, account security products (e.g. risk-based MFA), and in-product identity verifications (e.g. card scanning, ID photo upload). As a senior software engineer on the team you’ll work autonomously with partner teams and product management to build new products, lead internal and cross-team projects that drive company wide improvements, and lay the technical foundation for years to come. You’ll report to Jonah Glover, the Fraud engineering manager.
You Will:
Own and shape areas of our technology stack to bring business-critical features to our customers
You'll design, build and maintain new scalable, distributed services in Kotlin or Go using technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), RDS, Dynamo, Neptune Graph DB, Queues, Streams and more.
You'll set the standard for engineering excellence with design, quality and long-term code maintainability within the team.
You'll break down large projects into milestones and stories that can be accomplished by more junior engineers.
You'll mentor more junior engineers, growing their autonomy and career
This role is good for you if you have:
A BS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
5+ years of experience as a software developer.
Experience building scalable services and distributed systems.
Experience driving technical designs within a team.
Expertise in one or more general purpose programming languages like Kotlin or Go.
Experience or open to front-end work in any language/framework (eg. typescript, react, angular). While this isn’t the main function of your role, it’s a helpful for us if you’re flexible to some front-end work occasionally.
Experienced mentor for other engineers.
Experience working on Fraud Prevention & Fraud Handling system
Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.