Senior Software Engineer, Backend FinPlatform

About the role

Flex is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for implementing the various backend systems that support all business features. In this role, you will be part of the backend engineer team, responsible for the services and integrations that power our products, such as Payment, Billing, Identity, and partner integration. You’ll be designing, developing, testing, and scaling systems needed to deliver great user and partner experiences. You’ll work closely with your product, design, and engineering peers to solve our users' most pressing problems around rent payment. You’ll roll out changes to our customers in an agile manner with a delivery cadence that favors small, frequent iterations.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable leading scoping, design, and implementation for APIs they build and can drive their production rollouts to completion with minimum oversight.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years experience in software engineering
• Minimum of 4 years experience with Java
• Ability to work on a globally-distributed team with a high degree of ownership
• Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, successfully aligning and setting expectations on scope and delivery
• Ability to grow in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that will challenge you to always bring your best
• Experience building robust, fault-tolerant systems with multiple external dependencies
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines
• Proficient in Java frameworks and tools used at Flex, including Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle, JUnit, and JVM (memory/performance tuning, GC)
• Experience with Service-Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, Message Queues, and scalable architectures
• Experience with AWS (EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB) and containerization tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in CI/CD systems (preferably GitHub Actions), git, and automation
• Skilled in observability and monitoring tools, such as DataDog, to ensure high availability
• Experienced with big data platforms and tooling, including Snowflake
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code, using tools like CDK and Terraform
• Skilled at elevating team standards through best practices and mentoring junior engineers
• Excellent written and verbal communicator, with experience in cross-functional collaboration

Pay

Flex takes a market-based approach to pay. Work locations are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area:

• Tier 1 (NYC/Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle): $172,000—$215,000 USD
• Tier 2 (Austin, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, San Diego, Chicago, Atlanta): $154,800—$193,500 USD
• Tier 3 (Salt Lake City, all other USA cities): $146,200—$182,750 USD

Schedule

Roles posted in New York, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City are hybrid positions with on-site expectations of 2-3 days per week in our local offices. For candidates outside of these areas, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program.

Benefits

For full-time U.S. employees we offer:

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision
• Company equity
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Free Flex subscription

For full-time non-U.S. employees, we offer:

• Competitive compensation + company equity
• Unlimited PTO