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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.\nAbout the Role\nThe Trust Intelligence Platform team provides a robust data foundation and high-quality risk signal intelligence as its top priority. 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Ultimately, as a senior member of the team, your architectural decisions will empower our fraud analysts and machine learning engineering teams to combat risk at a global scale with absolute confidence.\nYou Will\nArchitect and Scale distributed data systems and robust pipelines using technologies like Kafka, and Spark to process high-throughput, low-latency real-time and batch risk signals.\n\nDrive Technical Strategy for the risk data stack, leading decisions on database selection (SQL/NoSQL), storage patterns, streaming architecture, and large-scale cost-optimization on AWS.\n\nLead the Design of complex data models and feature delivery mechanisms that support both real-time decisioning and long-term analytical needs, ensuring uncompromising data quality and observability.\n\nInnovate Data Integrity by defining the roadmap and building advanced feature anomaly and drift detection capabilities, ensuring strict adherence to global financial data privacy standards.\n\nPartner and Align cross-functionally with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Risk Leadership to build out \"feature stores\" and infrastructure that enable rapid ML model deployment and automated retraining loops.\n\nAct as a Force Multiplier by mentoring mid-level and junior engineers, leading architectural design reviews, setting engineering standards, and fostering a culture of technical excellence across the platform.\n\nYou Have\nExperience: 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of architecting, building, and maintaining production-grade, highly scalable data systems.\n\nArchitectural Expertise: Proven ability to design large-scale, distributed systems and make high-stakes architectural trade-offs. Deep understanding of data warehousing principles and modern data lake architectures.\n\nTechnical Depth: Expert-level proficiency in Python, Java, Scala, or Go, and extensive hands-on experience with modern big data tools (e.g., Spark, Snowflake, Kafka, Airflow).\n\nCloud & Streaming Mastery: Extensive experience building, scaling, and cost-optimizing distributed data systems within AWS (e.g., Kinesis, S3, EMR, Redshift, DynamoDB). Proven experience with low-latency streaming applications for real-time use cases.\n\nTechnical Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading large technical initiatives across multiple quarters, aligning cross-functional teams, and seeing complex systems through from conception to production and deprecation.\n\nMachine Learning Integration: (Preferred) Experience designing the data infrastructure that directly serves machine learning pipelines, particularly involving feature outlier and drift detection methodologies.\n\nDomain Knowledge: (Preferred) Deep experience in FinTech, Fraud, or Risk domains, specifically dealing with adversarial data patterns, high-volume transaction processing, or compliance requirements.\n\nCompensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $180,000-$225,000. In the U.S., 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.\nOur Benefits:\nFlexible paid time off\n\nHealth, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching\n\nPaid parental, medical, military and family care leave\n\nMental Health & Family Forming Benefits\n\nEmployee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)\n\nContinuing education and travel benefits\n\nOur Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together\nAt 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.\nUnder the Company's 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.\nWe are committed to nondiscrimination across our global organization and in all of our business operations. Employment is determined based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharge/veteran, pregnancy (including a woman's potential to get pregnant, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability (including the use of a trained dog guide or service animal), HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.\nRemitly is an E-Verify Employer\nRemitly is an equal opportunity employer. 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