Senior Backend Engineer - Infrastructure

Job Description

Job Description:

Join a winning, innovation-driven team that plays an important role in promoting financial inclusion and equal opportunities for all. Remitly Israel (formerly Rewire) is a leading digital financial services provider for immigrants.

At Remitly, we push forward and aim 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.

We're seeking a driven, seasoned Backend Developer with a focus on infrastructure to become a key member of our R&D team. In this pivotal role, you'll collaborate with a group of skilled and accomplished engineers to design and create robust backend services and infrastructure elements, paving the way for the future development of our platform. You'll engage closely with development teams and other key stakeholders, contributing significantly to the foundational infrastructure supporting Remitly Israel's products.

• Scale and Challenge - Work on a highly available, complex and cloud-native application that is used by millions of customers globally, handling millions of transactions every month.
• Getting into the Fintech industry - You will get the opportunity to gain deep knowledge in the Fintech industry including payments, banking systems, fraud, and much more.
• Exploring and utilizing leading-edge technologies with a strong focus on adhering to industry best practices, coupled with a substantial openness to creativity.
• And most important: purpose - Get rewarded by developing a product for real people who brings them one step forward to financial inclusion.
  
  

• Design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure solutions using a variety of cloud services (GCP, AWS) and Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain high-quality backend services, focusing on performance, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate infrastructure builds with backend development processes.
• Optimize Cloudflare configurations for enhanced security and performance.
• Drive platform engineering initiatives, contributing to architectural planning and decision-making.
• Implement comprehensive security measures and ensure adherence to industry standards and best practices.
• Lead the troubleshooting and resolution of complex issues in our production environment.
• Play a pivotal role in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipeline management.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering an environment of growth and learning.
  
  

• At least 5 years of experience in backend development, complemented by extensive involvement in infrastructure engineering.
• Proficiency in cloud services (GCP, AWS), Kubernetes, and Cloudflare.
• Strong experience with backend development - NodeJS, Go, Python (or similar languages), Running and managing relational and NoSQL databases.
• Solid understanding of platform engineering and distributed systems.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and capacity to perform in high-pressure situations.
• Exceptional communication and teamwork skills, capable of leading projects and collaborating effectively across diverse teams.