Full Stack Team Lead

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 are looking for a highly motivated, experienced Software Team Lead with strong backend roots to join our R&D team. You will lead and mentor a team of talented backend-oriented full stack engineers, and design and build a resilient system that manages our customers' funds, enabling top-notch consumer-facing applications for hundreds of thousands of users.

You will also work closely with the product and BI teams to constantly improve our service based on a data-driven approach along with direct feedback from our customers. The team is responsible for the core company features - building and maintaining highly available financial services, while taking into account high data integrity and security standards.

What you will get:

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.
Sharpen your management skills - Working with our strong leaders you will have the opportunity to sharpen your skills, such as developing, debugging, monitoring, planning, agile and cross-team collaboration.
Leading a team of A-players - The team you are going to lead consists of strong engineers, hence you will be able to leverage and improve your technical skills as well.
And most important: purpose - Get rewarded by developing a product for real people who brings them one step forward to financial inclusion.

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of skilled software engineers building complex flows and business logic in highly available financial services, while taking into account high data integrity and security standards.
Take responsibility over a widely used product, running initiatives from planning, execution, and monitoring in production, and continuously improve the process, in order to create value for our customers.
Take a hands-on approach, contributing to the code and the product.
Define and track the KPIs of the team.
Work closely with different stakeholders, such as product managers, BI, tech support, finance team, and operations.
Work closely with the product team in order to consistently improve our service based on a data-driven approach as well as direct feedback from our customers.
Drive and maintain high engineering standards, for execution, code quality, and customer satisfaction.

Requirements:

8+ years of hands-on experience in building production-grade products
3+ years of experience leading software development teams
Deep knowledge of several programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, Scala (preferably Javascript and Typescript)
Vast hands-on experience and acquired best practices with large-scale systems in production using backend frameworks (preferably Node.js), cloud services (preferably GCP services), and system architectures (both microservices and monolithic)
Hands-on experience and knowledge of frontend frameworks such as Angular, Vue (preferably React or React Native)
Great data processing skills - data warehouse, SQL databases, distributed databases, and performance tuning of data processes
BSc. in computer science/software engineering from a high-end university or comparable experience
People person - being able to lead a team of engineers and mentor them to grow and fulfill their career goals
Proactive mindset, pushing for team and personal excellence

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

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