Senior Engineering Manager

Job Description:

At Remitly we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access move and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011 weve tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally providing secure simple and reliable ways to manage their money and ensuring true peace of mind. Whether its supporting loved ones back home growing a business across continents or pursuing new opportunities abroad were not just here to move money - were here to move our global customers forward.
Were looking for builders reimaginers and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology trust and transformation. If thats you and youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your career we invite you to join over 2800 passionate Remitlians worldwide united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

Were hiring an Engineering Manager (IV) to lead one of our Kraków engineering teams within Global Money Movement. Depending on team needs at the time of hire you will lead one of three teams: Money Movement (MoMo) which orchestrates the movement of money across our global payment network and owns integrations with external banking and payment partners; Financial Instruments (MoFi) which builds and operates Remitlys financial-instruments platform; or User Financial Accounts (UFA / Accounts) which is building Remitlys new general-purpose ledger platform - the foundation for user wallets and balances. These platforms run on AWS and support high-throughput high-availability services that are critical to Remitlys products and regulatory obligations.

As the manager of one of these teams you will own delivery technical direction and team health. You will lead a team of roughly 6-12 engineers - including senior and on some teams staff-level ICs - set long-term strategy in partnership with product and platform leadership and represent your team to senior stakeholders across Engineering Product and our Seattle-based partner teams. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager based in Kraków.

To succeed you should operate with a high degree of autonomy and judgment be comfortable owning an executive-visible mandate and be as motivated by growing engineers and building a healthy team culture as by technical strategy and delivery. You should enjoy tackling complex ambiguous problems make sound trade-offs and have the backbone to defend them.

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• Own all aspects of people management for your team - hiring team structure performance management and career development - including performance reviews ongoing feedback and coaching and creating meaningful growth opportunities for engineers up to and including senior and staff levels.
• Set and drive multi-quarter technical and delivery strategy in partnership with product and platform leadership and adapt it as priorities evolve.
• Lead the team through complex initiatives - which depending on the team may include new-market launches platform migrations or scaling core money-movement services - keeping leadership and stakeholders aligned on progress milestones and risk.
• Partner with senior and staff engineers on architecture and technical direction holding a high bar for correctness reliability and long-term maintainability in regulated high-availability financial systems.
• Represent your team across a cross-functional cross-timezone landscape (Product banking and payment partners and Seattle partner teams) influencing without authority and escalating when necessary without alienating colleagues.
• Champion engineering and operational best practices - define metrics and processes for delivery health quality and on-call excellence and lead cross-team process improvements.

• A degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of software development experience including backend (e.g. Java/Kotlin Go) and familiarity with relational and non-relational data stores.
• 5 years of experience managing engineering teams with a strong track record on platform or distributed-systems teams.
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems on public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) ideally in a regulated or high-availability domain.
• Experience mentoring and growing engineers up to Senior and Staff level and developing or coaching emerging leaders.
• Experience leading across two or more sub-teams or through tech leads and emerging managers.
• Experience hiring and technically interviewing candidates across levels.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication across time zones and the judgment and backbone to make and defend hard trade-offs.

You will lead a team building the platforms Remitlys business runs on - moving money across borders and increasingly managing customer financial accounts - with real autonomy executive visibility and strong domain-deep teams to grow and lead. It is high-stakes high-ownership leadership at the core of the companys money-movement infrastructure.

Compensation Details.

The starting base salary range for this position is typically PLN 412000 PLN 463000 gross per Poland 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.

Our Benefits:

• 26 days paid holiday & additional company days off
• Equity in the company RSUs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Employee Pension Plan (PPK)
• Commuting to work expense
• Health/Dental & Coverage LUX MED VIP for employee & family
• Life Insurance
• Mental Health & Family Planing Benefits
• Continuing education
• Equipment of your choice
• Referral bonuses

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation Together

At Remitly we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster.

Under the Companys current hybrid-work expectations employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships fueling creativity and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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