Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Remitly is on a mission to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial products and services on the planet. Since 2011, we have been tirelessly delivering on our promises to immigrants sending their hard earned money home. Today, we are reimagining international payments at scale and building new products to create deeper relationships with our customers and their loved ones across the globe. Join over 2,700 employees across 10 offices who are growing their careers while having a positive impact on people globally.

Remitly is registered as a Money Services Business in the U.S., Canada, EU, United Kingdom, Singapore and Australia. Each of these jurisdictions require, among other items, that Remitly maintain a comprehensive Risk and Compliance Program.

About The Role: Infrastructure team provides a platform for workloads to reduce cognitive load for developers across Remitly. We provide an infrastructure environment with high velocity and low friction to engineers throughout all stages of the SDLC. The team builds self-service capabilities, embedding features like observability, compliance, security and operational excellence into the paved pathways and provides guardrails for product teams.You'll report to the Engineering Manager for Infrastructure located in Krakow.

You Will:

• Build and Own Developer Platform product with engineers as the end users

• Provide Technical Leadership: use your depth and breadth of experience to lead complex, long term, cross-team engineering efforts. In collaboration with other functional and engineering leaders you will be intimately involved in creating and evolving a compelling technical engineering strategy for infrastructure in particular, and broader platform in general

• Be a Cultural Leader: be a role model in upholding Remitly's cultural values and use them as a framework to mentor and coach other engineers across the team and company to achieve their full potential. You will be deeply involved in setting and hiring against a high engineering talent bar for the team.

• Teach, coach and mentor: use your technical experience and leadership to participate in the growth of engineers. You will have the chance to contribute to professional development, sponsorship and mentoring of your colleagues, the Infrastructure team and beyond it.

• Identify Improvement Opportunities: identify, articulate and help prioritize technical, operational, product and organizational problems that affect the ability of the Infrastructure engineering team to be at their best.

• Solve Broad Problems: Drive and participate in the creation and implementation of solutions to problems facing the engineering team. You will deploy your expertise in technical writing, distributed systems architecture, coding, engineering excellence and software development processes to achieve amazing things for the team.

You Have:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.

• Expertise in one or more general purpose programming languages such as Go, Java, C++, C#, Python or Ruby.

• 8+ years of engineering experience in a team environment

• 5+ years’ experience building and running microservices-oriented infrastructure in the cloud

• Expert in Linux, containerization tools, building and running Kubernetes clusters

• Expert in building infrastructure taking under consideration API design, scale, performance and observability

• Experience as a technical leader on complex engineering projects (in a product-driven company) with several engineers and working in partnership with one or more partners such as Product Managers, Designers or Data Scientists.

• Experience driving and building long term technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.

• Experience mentoring engineers up to Senior levels.

• Experience with technical interviewing candidates for all levels up to Senior.

Our Benefits:

• Equity in the company - RSUs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) 
• Unlimited paid time off, subject to approval
• min. 26 days paid holidays + additional company's days off 
• Royalties
• Hybrid or remote work arrangements with an office in a Kraków City Centre
• Commuting to work expense/remote work expenses reimbursement 
• Health/Dental Coverage - LUX MED VIP for employee and family
• Life Insurance
• Travel insurance for employee and family
• Sodexo Lunch Card/Multisport
• Education / Conferences Budget
• Equipment of your choice
• Mental health program for employee and their dependents
• Family planning program
• Employee Pension Plan (PPK)
• Headphones Reimbursement 
• Referral bonus scheme

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

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