Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Remote (U.S.)

Flex is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for implementing the platforms and APIs that support all business features.

In this role, you will be part of the partner growth engineering team, responsible for building, maintaining, and improving core services that drives Flex’s network growth, implementing new partner integrations, and working on projects to increase customer net adoption rate. You’ll be designing, developing, testing, and scaling the services needed to deliver great partner experiences and a reliable end-to-end bill 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 and implementation for APIs they build and can drive their production rollouts to completion with minimum oversight.

A minimum of 4 years of experience with Java is required for this position.

Who you are

• You have strong computer science fundamentals
• You have experience to translate the feature requirements into technical specifications.
• You have experience leveling up the entire team’s bar by introducing best practices, mentoring junior people, etc.
• 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 implementing and operating services in distributed services environments 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
• You have a good understanding of REST and mobile API best practices
• You have great communication skills and are comfortable working with a distributed team

Core competencies

• Prior experience working on cross functional teams
• Experience with leading the project in its entire lifecycle, from requirements gathering to delivery.
• Proficient with Java and Spring (Bonus: AWS, Containers, Kubernetes, MySql)
• Experience with CI/CD to improve code stability and code quality

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 $197,000-$213,000
• For all other states, the base salary pay range will be $177,000-$192,000

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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