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're hiring a Engineering Manager to join our Scout team—Remitly's agentic AI team responsible for building AI-powered experiences that help customers send money and complete tasks wherever they are—whether on Remitly's website, mobile app, or third-party platforms like WhatsApp.

As a manager of the Scout team, you'll collaborate across teams to enable money transfer functionality on external platforms and help other domains by providing them with a robust conversational AI platform. You'll lead a full stack engineering team, guide technical strategy, and collaborate with partners in Product, Design, and Analytics to bring customer growth and business impact. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with cross-functional partners including UX, Legal, Compliance, and Marketing, as well as most platform engineering teams, giving you exposure to a wide range of technical and business challenges. You will be reporting to Senior Engineering Manager.

You Will:

• Manage a team of engineers, provide technical leadership and lead complex, cross-team engineering efforts.
• Guide and support team members in their career development journey.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data teams to recognize and explore significant enhancement prospects, validating hypotheses, and enhancing key performance indicators.
• Engage in all phases of product development, from brainstorming to execution to deployment, which involves swift prototyping, conducting A/B tests, and deploying code to production.
• Establish standards for planning, encompassing defining quarterly objectives, allocating resources, and adapting priorities as needed.
• Utilize your proficiency in technical writing, distributed systems architecture, coding, and software development methodologies to drive remarkable outcomes for the team.
• Be a role model in upholding Remitly's cultural values and use them as a framework to mentor other engineers across the company to achieve their full potential.
• You will help set and hire against a high engineering talent bar for the team.

You Have:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience, including backend (e.g., Go, Java/Kotlin) and frontend (e.g., TypeScript, React Native) technologies.
• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a strong track record in full stack or platform-oriented application development.
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems in a microservices environment.
• Experience driving and building long-term technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience leading multi-quarter complex engineering projects with several engineers and working in partnership with one or more partners such as Product Managers, Program Managers, or TPMs.
• Experience mentoring engineers up to the Senior Engineer level.
• Experience with technical interviewing candidates for all levels up to Senior Engineer.

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is $148,000-$185,000. 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. For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

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.

We are committed to nondiscrimination across our global organization and in all of our business operations. Employment is determined based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharge/veteran, pregnancy (including a woman's potential to get pregnant, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability (including the use of a trained dog guide or service animal), HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.