Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Flex

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2025 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?

About the role

Flex is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Core Platform Team and help build out our core services to enhance and extend our business functions.

In this role you will be part of the shared service team, responsible for the core platform that covers our major business functions such as Payment, Ledger, Identity&Auth, Settlement etc. You’ll be designing, developing, testing, and scaling the platform needed to deliver great user and partner experiences and a reliable end-to-end payment process.

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, prioritization, and implementation for APIs and services they build and can drive their production rollouts to completion with minimum oversight.

Skills that are required

Bachelor or above degree in Computer Engineering or a related field
Minimum of 8 years experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years of technical leadership experience in a hands-on capacity
You have experience with the Java frameworks and tools we use at Flex such as Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle and JUnit
You have experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, such as MySQL/PostgreSQL/DynamoDB
You have experience designing and implementing services in distributed services environment at scale
You have experience with observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog for maintaining high availability
You write high-quality code that is testable, maintainable, scalable, and secure
Ability to work on a globally-distributed team with a high degree of ownership
Experience leading the delivery of multiple highly impactful products end to end, on time with a high quality bar
Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, successfully aligning and setting expectations on scope and delivery
Ability to drive yourself and your team to bring quality and consistency to their code and architecture, without compromising velocity
Ability to grow in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that will challenge you to always bring your best
Experience in designing and developing solutions that maximize ROI and lead to significant business impact
Experience working in FinTech and familiar with major payment rails
Experience working on AWS cloud based applications

The salary compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.

For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the base salary pay range will be $247,000-$266,000
For all other states, the base salary pay range will be $220,000-$239,000

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Life at Flex:

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:

Competitive pay
100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
401(k) + company equity
Unlimited paid time off with a PTO minimum + 13 company paid holidays
Parental leave
Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
Free Flex subscription

For full time non-US employees, we offer

Competitive Pay
Company Equity
Unlimited PTO

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