Software Team Lead

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 team in Israel pushes forward and aims for the stars, an energy that has defined us since our early startup days. We hire people who are passionate about building meaningful products and making a real impact on people's lives. We invest in promoting our employees' careers by providing opportunities, challenges, and a great flexible work environment.

About The Role
We are seeking a passionate full-stack team lead to manage one of our engineering teams. In this role, you will collaborate closely with a squad that works across the stack, based in multiple locations, to deliver key outcomes. You will lead integration work with other global engineering teams, and collaborate closely with product managers, BI, QA, TPMs, and other functions. You will be reporting to the store-of-value products group engineering manager.

Our team builds new products from 0 to 1 and beyond, taking innovative ideas from concept through launch and scaling. You'll work in a fast-moving, collaborative environment where you can influence product direction, shape technical architecture, and see your work make a direct impact on customers worldwide.

What You Will Get

• Scale and Challenge - Work on a complex and cloud-native application that is used by millions of customers globally, handling millions of transactions every month.
• Getting into the Fintech industry - You will get the opportunity to gain deep knowledge in the Fintech industry including payments, banking systems, fraud, and much more.
• Sharpen your technical management skills - Working with our strong leaders and professionals you will have the opportunity to sharpen your skills.
• Leading a team of A-players - The team you are going to lead consists of strong engineers of different seniority levels, working across the stack, eager to learn and grow together.
• And most important: purpose - Get rewarded by developing a product for real people who brings them one step forward to financial inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of skilled software engineers building complex flows and business logic across the stack, and own their growth.
• Take responsibility over a widely used product, running initiatives from planning, execution, and monitoring in production, and continuously improve the process, in order to create value for our customers.
• Define and track the KPIs of the team.
• Work closely with different stakeholders, such as product managers, BI, QA.
• Drive and maintain high engineering standards, for execution, code quality, and customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on full-stack experience in building production-grade products
• 3+ years of experience leading software development teams
• Experience leading teams spread across multiple geographies
• Deep knowledge of Typescript
• Hands-on experience with React and/or React Native
• Hands-on experience and acquired best practices building backend architecture for large-scale systems in production
• Hands-on experience with cloud services
• Hands-on experience working with databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
• BSc. in computer science/software engineering from a high-end university or comparable experience
• People person - being able to lead a team of engineers and mentor them to grow and fulfill their career goals
• Proactive mindset, pushing for team and personal excellence

Nice To Have

• Experience with and Go
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experience with mobile development

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. Our work setup offers 3 days in the office and 2 days remote - for most roles. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs. Of course, if you miss us, you can come to the office every day.

Our connected work culture is 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.