Software Development Engineer II

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, Remitly has delivered secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage money globally, supporting customers sending money worldwide. The Messaging Platform team builds and maintains the foundation of Remitly's communication systems, processing over 100 million messages each month and supporting customers in more than 170 countries. The team is based in Kraków and focuses on personalized, AI-driven communication and flexible vendor integration.

• 3+ years of experience building distributed, event-driven, or platform systems at scale (5+ years total engineering experience).
• Proficiency in one or more core languages: Go, Java, Python, JavaScript.
• Experience delivering resilient, observable, and compliant systems where reliability is non-negotiable.
• Excitement for platform engineering: building systems others depend on, balancing flexibility, performance, and cost efficiency.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with messaging vendors such as Twilio, Braze, SES or lifecycle marketing platforms.

• Design and scale event-driven systems that power customer communication globally.
• Partner with product managers, AI researchers, other product teams, and own team to deliver next-generation messaging tooling.
• Build scalable event-driven architectures to support marketing platforms and lifecycle messaging.
• Support junior engineers and contribute to team growth through knowledge sharing and guidance.
• Write clear technical documentation, including specs and architecture designs, for complex systems.
• Debug and improve systems to ensure efficiency at scale.
• Stay updated on industry trends and bring innovative ideas to improve the messaging platform.