Backend Software Engineer

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 top-notch consumer-facing applications for millions of users using the most advanced technologies.

We are looking for a highly motivated, 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 a performant and scalable system that will serve more than a Million monthly customers, with minimal computing requirements.
Build and maintaining 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.
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.
Experience building web servers using Node.js, Python, or Go.
Deep knowledge of API standards such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.
Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.
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

Nice to have:

Experience building client applications using React.js / React Native or equivalent technologies.
Experience with the development of financial products
Experience in running, debugging, and maintaining a production environment serving millions of users
Deep knowledge of security concepts and fraud prevention
Knowledge of CI/CD tools and DevOps concepts such as Gitops, deployment methodologies, and frameworks.
Experience with Kubernetes and Prometheus
Working on a B2C product using data-driven methodologies and using analytics tools

Remitly is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Remitly. 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.

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