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.

About the Role:

As a senior engineering manager at Remitly, you will be responsible for taking on complex technical and customer problems and creating great products.

The Trust Intelligence team is a cornerstone of Remitly’s Transaction Integrity efforts, which are dedicated to building and scaling platform capabilities powered by advanced predictive methodologies to mitigate risks such as payment fraud, consumer scams, and promotional abuse. This team focuses on building and maintaining a robust risk data infrastructure, feature lifecycle management system and toolings to enable scalable, high-quality fraud detection and machine learning systems for all product lines at Remitly. The team operates at the intersection of platform development and applied machine learning, ensuring tight alignment with business outcomes and fostering iterative improvements in platform adoption and performance.

You will lead the team in close collaboration with product squads and the Trust ML team to drive platform innovation and you will report to the EM Lead for Trust Platform.

You Will:

• Set the technical vision and roadmap for your engineering team and partner with engineers of other teams to set a broader technical vision
• Provide technical leadership and lead complex, long-term, cross-team engineering efforts.
• Set a high bar for planning and execution, including quarterly objective definition, resource allocation, and re-prioritization when necessary
• Partner with product managers to understand requirements, translate these requirements into technical tasks, and ensure the engineering team delivers the expected outcome.
• You explain the options and tradeoffs between data quality, availability that related  features, and quality across interdependent systems, and make sound technical decisions
• 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 experience.
• 5+ years of experience building diverse and empowered teams
• Previous experience in building and maintaining offline and online data solutions to power data-driven decision
• Strong understanding of data architecture, data pipeline development, feature engineering, and machine learning tech stacks, such as Kafka/Kinesis, Spark, Sagemaker, and other relevant technologies
• Experience with distributed systems and micro-service architecture in production
• An engineering mindset that stays technically curious and engaged in innovation and encourages learning in the team.
• Thoughtful leadership with experience in hiring, coaching and retaining engineering talent with multiple needs for personal and professional growth.

Bonus

• Have experience in adversarial domains like Fraud, Trust, or Safety
• Have experience building and shipping ML feature stores, online and offline data pipelines

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $194,000 -$242,000. 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. #LI-Hybrid

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 and travel benefits

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 E-Verify Employer

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