Software Engineer II, Risk Engineering (Backend)

Flex is a growth-stage FinTech company headquartered in NYC that focuses on creating a better rent payment experience. They are looking for a Software Engineer II to join their Risk Engineering team, where the primary responsibility will be to implement platforms and APIs to support business features within the risk management domain.

Responsibilities:

• Build decision platform / machine learning solutions to respond to/mitigate business risks in Flex
• Design and develop 24/7 high-scale APIs and distributed systems. The tech stack will be on AWS. Java would be the language for the existing code base. Java Spring Boot will be the framework
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering peers to launch new features across our web and mobile platforms

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Java
• 1+ years of experience with React.js or React Native
• 1+ years of experience with TypeScript
• Having experience building high-quality mobile and web UIs to specifications is a must to have
• 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 architectures and tools in React Native and React ecosystems (Hooks, Components, Context, Redux)
• Experience with AWS (EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB) and containerization tools
• Experience working in a risk engineering team and with decision platform architecture or risk/fraud detection systems
• 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