Senior Software Engineer, Globalization

Remitly is a company delivering trusted financial services for global money transfers, supporting customers in 175+ countries and 18+ languages with a mission to make its products globally-ready by design through internationalization infrastructure, translation pipelines, and AI-powered tooling.

• 6+ years of software development experience including internationalization/localization engineering and leading complex feature delivery.
• Strong programming skills in Go and JavaScript/TypeScript, including React Native and modern web frameworks like Next.js, or comparable ecosystems.
• Experience applying AI/LLMs in production workflows with good judgment on automation.
• Knowledge of internationalization standards and locale-aware formatting (Unicode, ICU/CLDR-based libraries).
• Proven ability building or evolving localization systems and translation pipelines at scale.
• Experience with modern development practices such as code reviews and secure coding.

Nice to have:

• Experience shipping RTL/bidirectional language support in production.
• Experience with localizability audits and pseudo-locale validation.
• Hands-on experience with translation management systems (TMS) platforms like Lokalise and localization interchange formats (XLIFF).
• Experience in fintech or regulated industries.

• Own complex, team-level projects end-to-end: clarify requirements, break work into parallel tasks, and guide teammates toward on-time delivery.
• Build AI/LLM-powered translation and orchestration tooling: evaluate models, design quality guardrails, and integrate them into production localization pipelines.
• Build and maintain localization infrastructure, translation pipelines, and i18n tooling, integrated with translation management systems (TMS).
• Design CI/CD-integrated solutions for locale-specific rendering (currency, date/time, numeric formats), text extraction and translation workflows, and pseudo-locale validation.
• Standardize i18n frameworks and libraries across frontend and backend systems for correct handling of date/time, currency, pluralization, and message formatting.
• Build static code analysis and linting tooling to catch i18n defects before release.
• Expand language coverage including right-to-left and bidirectional support and transliteration tooling.
• Operate built services: monitor, debug, and improve reliability in production.
• Partner across backend and frontend stacks with backend, mobile, web, and content teams.
• Mentor other engineers via code reviews and design discussions.

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