Senior Software Engineer 2

Job Description

The Opportunity:

We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer II, ideally with a background in FinTech. Your primary responsibility will be to build and maintain the platform that supports the money movement of our industry leading payment engine moving hundreds of millions everyday. 

You will be joining a team in charge of designing new functionalities and improving the current capabilities to improve speed, cost and scalability of our product. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, pragmatic design, building quality products and to convey the sensation that the product is the responsibility of all the team is essential. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality code in a team defined timeframe. 

• Write clean, high quality, testable, secure, maintainable and extendable code
• Solve items such as challenging bugs and production issues within the development environment
• Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Understand scalability and performance status and make improvement for scalability
• Drive change and improvement in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Partake in the recruitment process by identifying and exciting great talent
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Contribute to the product vision by collaborating with Product Managers and stakeholders
• Drive initiatives to lead projects as well as mentor team members

Qualifications

Here’s What We’re Looking For:

• 8+ years of experience in web application development 
• Experience in designing, developing and supporting scalable, performant and reliable web applications and distributed systems
• Seasoned in techniques such TDD and BDD
• Proficient working with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
• Understanding of relational databases 
• Strong understanding of object-oriented fundamentals
• Great understanding of the other disciplines in the cross functional team: QAs, Product and SREs
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams including product and support
• Fluent in English, as it is the company’s working language 
• Experience in FinTech or the payment industry will be appreciated
• The ability to deliver high quality code and learn quickly

Technologies We Use:

• Ruby or Java 
• React
• JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 
• System management: Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Sidekiq, AMQP, ElasticSearch,
• Machine Learning
• Cloud platform: AWS

Our Culture:

• We are a global company. Our engineering team is distributed across 3 continents and 4 different countries so remote work is allowed!
• Our engineering practice is shaped around concepts including Agile, Lean, and Extreme Programming. Each team has a high level of autonomy to organize themselves in the way they consider more appropriate to execute their mission.
• We actively engage in knowledge sharing by hosting internal cross-discipline events.
• We are active in contributing to open source whenever possible.
• We contribute to our local communities by hosting different events, Meetups, etc

Additional Information

Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 40 nationalities across 12 different offices, and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda, we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset, and we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire. 

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer.

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