Principal Engineer, Verification Platform in Burnaby

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.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Verification organization who will lead the teams responsible for the full trust and safety stack that makes Remitly's mission possible. This includes identity verification, authentication and authorization, compliance controls, transaction monitoring, and the customer data platform that power it all.

You Will:

• Technical Leadership
• Define the architecture and long-term technical vision for Remitly's verification and compliance platform services.
• Lead the platformization of existing verification services through the redesign of systems built around our remittance product into reusable, well-documented platform capabilities.
• Raise the bar for the design of APIs and service contracts that internal engineering teams consume.
• Establish and champion engineering standards for how compliance controls are designed, built, and integrated across Remitly's product surface.
• Personally take on the hardest, highest-risk technical problems where correctness, consistency, and auditability are non-negotiable.
• Organizational Impact
• Partner closely with Product Management, compliance stakeholders, and legal to translate evolving regulatory requirements into sound, scalable technical solutions.
• Drive alignment across engineering, product, and compliance teams on platform strategy, priorities, and technical direction.
• Influence product teams to adopt platform services correctly through great design, clear documentation, and active technical partnership.
• Mentor and actively develop senior engineers within the verification org.
• Serve as a technical role model across the organization.

You Have:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of principal-level technical scope and organizational impact.
• Deep expertise in designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Proven experience building developer-facing APIs and internal platform services.
• Prior experience as part of an internal platform or infrastructure team.
• Hands-on experience with identity, authentication and authorization systems.
• Ability to lead through influence across multiple teams without direct authority.

Compensation Details: The starting base salary range for this position is $220,000 - $275,000. In Canada, Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan.

Our Benefits:

• Four weeks vacation
• Health Benefits
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• RRSP plan with company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Life Insurance & Disability
• Continuing education and travel benefits

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.

Equal Opportunity and Diversity: Remitly is an E-Verify Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.