JOB DESCRIPTION:

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we’ve tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it’s supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we’re not just here to move money— we’re here to move our global customers forward.
We’re looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that’s you and you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

The Trust Platform team builds and maintains the systems that orchestrate fraud detection, identity verification, and regulatory reporting across all Remitly products. Our mission is to keep customers safe and Remitly compliant while enabling fast, reliable, and user friendly identity verification.
As a Staff Engineer on Trust Platform, you will provide technical leadership across multiple domains, shaping the architecture and evolution of systems that are foundational to Remitly’s business. You will drive initiatives that improve KYC/identity verification, regulatory screening, and compliance reporting, while ensuring these services are scalable, fault-tolerant, and reusable across product lines.
You will partner with engineering managers, product, and analytics leaders to set long-term technical direction, make build-vs-buy tradeoffs, and define standards for reliability, observability, and security. You’ll mentor engineers across the org, raising the technical bar and ensuring the platform can meet rapidly evolving fraud and compliance challenges worldwide. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of Trust Orchestration Platform.