As Principal Engineer for High Value Senders, you will own technology strategy and architecture across the HVS domain. You will partner with engineering, product, design, marketing and analytics to define how we earn customer trust on their most consequential transfers. You will solve the domain's hardest technical problems, shape how systems are divided and owned across teams, and align decisions with Remitly's long-term architecture and business goals.
This full-stack role spans customer-facing web and mobile experiences, backend systems, and deep partnership with foundational teams across identity and trust, money movement, pricing, and Core Transfer Experience. You will turn ambiguous, greenfield opportunities into new products while evolving shared systems safely. You will remain hands-on through system analysis, meaningful code contributions, and reviews, applying your expertise where it most increases the organization's impact. Your success will include stronger technical leaders, more autonomous teams, and durable improvements in customer trust and engineering effectiveness.
Help customers move money for life's most significant moments. Build new products and the technical foundations that make every high-value transfer feel clear, dependable, and worthy of their trust.
You Will
Build New Products: Create new HVS propositions. Enable teams to test and launch 0-to-1 experiences with measurable customer outcomes, extensible foundations and safe rollout controls.
Lead AI Adoption: Operate AI-natively and evaluate emerging capabilities for step-change improvements in customer experience and software delivery. Establish domain-level AI accountability: appropriate use boundaries, evaluation methods, and review standards for correctness, security, and maintainability.
Set Technical Vision and Strategy for High Value Senders: Own HVS technology strategy and architecture, connecting core experiences, customer growth, and emerging propositions. Use customer signals, product judgment, and data to guide investments and technical decisions.
Build the Foundations for High Value Transfers: Define architecture across web, mobile, and backend services for high-value transfer journeys. Segment systems and ownership so teams can build independently while delivering a coherent customer experience.
Partner with identity and trust, money movement, pricing, and Core Transfer Experience teams to resolve shared architecture and ownership questions. Decide where to extend existing foundations and where new capabilities are needed.
Make Customer Trust an Engineering Standard: Establish and refine reliability, security, privacy, and quality standards with functional experts. Drive consistent testing, observability, deployment, and maintenance practices across HVS, supported by clear availability and latency SLOs.
Multiply the Engineering Organization: Proactively mentor staff and senior engineers and raise the quality of technical leadership across HVS. Advise on team boundaries and ownership models that improve autonomy and productivity.
Stay close to the code through deep system analysis, meaningful reviews, prototypes, and production contributions. Apply hands-on expertise where it resolves critical needs and sets direction for the domain.
You Have
12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time designing and operating large-scale, customer-facing distributed systems.
Deep backend expertise in languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python, plus experience shaping customer-facing web and mobile systems with technologies such as TypeScript, React, or native mobile frameworks.
Advanced distributed-systems design expertise, including cloud infrastructure, safe architecture evolution, and resolving root causes of scaling, latency, data-quality, or dependency problems in production.
A track record of setting domain-level technical strategy, leading large-system design reviews, and segmenting architecture and ownership to enable autonomous teams. Experience informing organizational design and growing technical leaders.
Experience establishing engineering and operational standards across teams, with sound judgment about reliability, security, privacy, maintainability, and the business risks of technical decisions.
Strong customer and product judgment. Proven ability to resolve ambiguous cross-org problems, influence roadmaps and investment decisions, and connect technical proposals to business outcomes for technical and non-technical leaders.
Hands-on use of AI in software delivery and experience scaling effective practices beyond your own work, including validation, review standards, and evaluating gains in speed, quality, or efficiency.
Nice to Have
Experience in cross-border payments, high-value transactions, or other regulated financial services, including integrations with funding, identity, risk, or compliance systems.
Experience building premium financial experiences, wealth-related products, or other services that require high customer confidence and complex workflows.
Experience with experimentation, customer acquisition and retention, or personalized product experiences.
Experience serving global customers across markets with different payment methods, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.
Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $240,000 -$300,000. 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.
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, 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.
