This is a senior individual contributor role operating across a medium-sized engineering organization of 20–50 engineers. You will be the technical anchor for the verification org through the setting architectural direction, shaping the APIs and platform services that product teams depend on, and ensuring we build for correctness, auditability, and scale in a heavily regulated environment.
You Will
Technical Leadership
Define the architecture and long-term technical vision for Remitly's verification and compliance platform services, ensuring they can serve the needs of multiple products and markets.
Lead the platformization of existing verification services through the redesign of systems built around our remittance product into reusable, well-documented platform capabilities that product teams can confidently build on.
Raise the bar for the design of APIs and service contracts that internal engineering teams consume, with a strong focus on developer experience, reliability, and extensibility.
Establish and champion engineering standards for how compliance controls are designed, built, and integrated across Remitly's product surface.
Personally take on the hardest, highest-risk technical problems where correctness, consistency, and auditability are non-negotiable.
Organizational Impact
Partner closely with Product Management, compliance stakeholders, and legal to translate evolving regulatory requirements into sound, scalable technical solutions.
Drive alignment across engineering, product, and compliance teams on platform strategy, priorities, and technical direction.
Influence product teams to adopt platform services correctly through great design, clear documentation, and active technical partnership.
Mentor and actively develop senior engineers within the verification org, setting the bar for technical quality through design reviews, code reviews, and direct coaching.
Serve as a technical role model across the organization, elevating the overall caliber of engineering decision-making.
You Have
10+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of principal-level technical scope and organizational impact.
Deep expertise in designing and operating distributed systems at scale including strong command of reliability, availability, and performance trade-offs.
Proven experience building developer-facing APIs and internal platform services, with a genuine appreciation for developer experience and platform ergonomics.
Prior experience as part of an internal platform or infrastructure team — understands the unique dynamics of building for internal developer customers, including adoption, versioning, and migration.
Hands-on experience with identity, authentication and authorization systems – IAM, OAuth, KYC pipelines, or similar verification and access control domains.
Ability to lead through influence across multiple teams without direct authority, driving alignment on complex, cross-functional technical decisions.
Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is $220,000 - $275,000. 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.
Our Benefits
Four weeks vacation
Health Benefits
Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
RRSP plan with company match
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Life Insurance & Disability
Continuing education and travel benefits
Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together
At 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.Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.
Remitly is an E-Verify Employer
At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
