Software Development Engineer II, Localization

About the role

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.

About the role

Remitly's Global Experience Platform team makes our products globally ready by design. We build the internationalization (i18n) infrastructure, translation pipelines, and AI-powered tooling that let every customer experience Remitly as locally made, whatever their language, script, or locale. Your work will reach millions of customers across 18+ languages and 175+ countries, many of them immigrants supporting family back home.

You'll help Remitly launch new countries and languages faster and raise the quality of localized experiences in the markets we already serve, working as an equal partner with our Localization team.

You Will

• Develop high-quality, reusable, and scalable code involving multiple technologies (React Native, TypeScript, Go, Java/Kotlin, AWS), delivering well-tested, observable, documented, efficient, scalable, and resilient solutions with a customer-centric mindset.
• Leverage modern AI-powered development tools to deliver faster while maintaining quality and security standards.
• Drive internationalization improvements across the customer experience by building and operating translation pipelines and i18n tooling integrated with our TMS and CI/CD.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap of our localization systems, balancing short-term goals with long-term scalability and maintainability in shared i18n frameworks, AI/LLM-powered translation tools, and integration into localization pipelines.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts to achieve outstanding customer experiences in every language and locale.
• Contribute to code reviews, sprint rituals, hiring, and mentoring.
• Bring a well-informed point of view and a commitment to the best customer experience, whatever the customer's language, script, or locale, and deliver creative solutions quickly.
• Report to the Engineering Manager of the Localization team.

You Have

• Strong computer science, web, and native app fundamentals, and knowledge of design patterns, plus working knowledge of Unicode, ICU/CLDR, and locale-aware formatting.
• 3+ years of software development experience, ideally including internationalization or localization.
• Professional experience with one of the following programming languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, Java, Go.
• Knowledge of basic architecture, systems design, and agile practices.
• Excellent collaboration skills, including with Localization, Product, Design, and Legal partners.
• Nice to have: shipped right-to-left or bidirectional support, hands-on TMS experience (Lokalise, Phrase, Smartling, Transifex), or fintech and remittance experience.

Pay and benefits

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $144,000-180,000. 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.

Our Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
• Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Continuing education

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.

• Under 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.