Staff Software Development Engineer

Remitly, Inc. seeks a Staff Software Development Engineer to drive complex, long-term, cross-team software development efforts and provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams of professionals. Identify and understand user needs and pain points and design, develop, and implement software solutions to address issues. Determine system performance standards and set the technical vision for customer success team and partner with engineers of other teams to set broader technical vision. Communicate options and trade-offs for alternative software develop approaches, including schedule, features, and quality across interdependent systems, and make sound technical decisions. Develop software solutions by applying expertise in technical writing, distributed systems architecture, coding, and software development methodologies. Mentor software development engineers across the company and ensure best practices in software development initiatives; and help set and hire against a high engineering talent bar for the team. Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field, followed by 5 years of progressively responsible experience with software development, including leading development of reliable, available and scalable distributed systems. Experience must include 3 years of experience with each of the following : designing and implementing zero-to-one products and features; providing technical leadership on complex engineering projects; building and driving long term technical strategies across multiple engineering teams; CI / CD tools including Jenkins and Github; and with AWS DynamoDb, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, AWS Kinesis, GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, and Typescript. Experience must include 1 year of experience with each of the following : React.js; and mentoring engineers of all levels. Telecommuting is available from anywhere in the United States based on manager approval. Job Location : Seattle, WA Rate of Pay : $212,202.00 - $290,000.00 per year Any interested candidate should email resume and cover letter identifying the job opportunity by Req ID R_105390 to HR@remitly.com, or apply online at https : / / careers.remitly.com and enter the Req ID when prompted. Remitly, Inc. is an EEO employer. #LI-DNI #FB-DNI #IN-DNI #TW-DNI #GD-DNI