Key skills
JavaSnowflakeSpringJUnitAWSTerraformGitHub ActionsEKSDynamoDBRDSDatadogGitGitHubAgileCI/CDMentoringCollaboration
About this role
Flex is a growth-stage FinTech company headquartered in NYC, focused on creating the best rent payment experience. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to implement backend systems that support business features, design and develop services, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Implementing the various backend systems that support all business features
- Designing, developing, testing, and scaling systems needed to deliver great user and partner experiences
- Working closely with product, design and engineering peers to solve users' pressing problems around rent payment
- Rolling out changes to customers in an agile manner with a delivery cadence that favors small, frequent iterations
- Leading scoping, design and implementation for APIs built and driving 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
- 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