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.