Backend Software Engineer
Remitly
Job Description:
Remitly’s vision is to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders. Since 2011, we have been tirelessly delivering on our promises to people who send money around the world. Today, we are reimagining global financial services and building products that extend beyond traditional barriers to give customers access to more of the services they need, no matter where they call home. Join over 2,700 employees worldwide who are growing their careers with purpose and connection with our customers while having a positive impact on millions of people around the globe.The team in Israel pushes forward and aims for the stars. We hire top talents and invest in promoting their career by providing opportunities, challenges, and a great work environment that places an important emphasis on work-life balance.
About the Role:
As a Backend Engineer at Remitly Tel Aviv, you will have the opportunity to build innovative products that affect our customers' lives directly, act as a developer on mission-critical systems, and build robust, fail-safe and highly scalable applications for millions of users around the world using the most advanced technologies.
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Software Engineer to join our R&D team to build out our products and services to support new initiatives.
What you will get:
Scale and Challenging position - Work on a highly available complex cloud-native application, which is used by millions of customers globally, handling millions of transactions every month.
Getting into the Fintech industry - An opportunity to gain deep knowledge in the Fintech industry including payments, accounting, banking systems, fraud, compliance, and much more.
Sharpen your skills - Collaborate with stakeholders to solve difficult challenges, focusing on scalability, security, reliability, and complex business logic as fundamental elements of your role.
Be part of an A-players team - Become part of a group of experienced engineers. You will further develop your expertise in areas such as design, architecture, managing production environments, and make a significant impact for our product under the guidance of our accomplished engineers.
Sense of purpose - Feel rewarded for developing a product for real people that brings them one step forward to financial inclusion.
You Will:
- Build performant and scalable systems that will serve more than a Million monthly customers, with minimal computing requirements.
- Build and maintain durable and highly available financial services, while taking into account high data integrity and security standards. You will have the opportunity to build our next generation of Remitly's products from scratch.
- Bring your knowledge to the team and help us grow better together
- Create complex core business logic and flows.
- Build integrations with new service providers and cloud services.
- As a backend engineer, you will focus on resilient distributed systems, which have to comply with strict performance and data integrity standards
You Have:
- 3+ years of experience in building and delivering production code.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent industry experience
- Enthusiastic about building consumer-facing products with great experience, as a backend engineer you have accountability on performance and error flows.
- A proactive person with a keen eye for details, who constantly wants to improve the system and grow
- Experience working with Cloud Providers such as AWS, GCP and Azure
- Worked with large scale systems or data, and have successfully found and fixed production issues.
- Deep knowledge of API standards such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.
- Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience building web servers using Node.js, Python, or Go.
Nice to have:
- Experience developing financial products
- Experience in running, debugging, and maintaining a production environment serving millions of users
- Deep knowledge of security and fraud prevention concepts
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools and DevOps concepts such as Gitops, deployment methodologies, and frameworks.
- Experience with building complex workflows with Temporal
- Experience with containerized deployments(such as Kubernetes) and Prometheus
- Worked on a B2C product using data-driven methodologies and used analytics tooling
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Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.