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, we've 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 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, united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.
About the Role
We're 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 Remitly's financial-instruments platform; or User Financial Accounts (UFA / Accounts), which is building Remitly's 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 Remitly's 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.
You Will
- 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.
You Have
- 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 Remitly's 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 company's money-movement infrastructure.
Compensation Details.
The starting base salary range for this position is typically PLN 412,000 - PLN 463,000 gross per annum. In 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)
- Open leave policy (Flexible vacation days with manager approval)
- 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. For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates a consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs. 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.