Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is building the payment layer for life's financial obligations, giving households one place to see, split, and pay their bills around how they live and get paid. By offering greater choice over how and when payments are made and allowing eligible on time payments to help build a positive credit history, Flex puts households back in control of their cash flow.
That work brings together people with different perspectives who challenge the status quo and take ownership of solving difficult problems. For you, that means doing the best work of your career next to people who make you better, and together bringing ideas to life that make a real impact for the people we serve.
About Our Opportunities
Flex exists to make paying rent work the way real life actually works — smoothing out cash flow, helping renters avoid late fees, and letting them build credit instead of falling behind. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design, build, and scale the services and integrations behind Payment, Billing, Identity, and partner integrations that keep rent moving on time for renters every month — setting the long-term technical vision and architecture for the systems you own, leading scoping, design, and implementation across teams, driving your own production rollouts to completion with minimal oversight, and working closely with product, design, and engineering peers to solve renters' most pressing problems in small, frequent iterations rather than big, risky releases. You'll also raise the bar for the engineers around you, mentoring peers and driving consistency and best practices across the org.
About Our Team(s)
We have some really exciting teams who are looking for an amazing engineer like you! Check them out!
- Partner Integrations - Partner integrations work to standardize APIs, tools, and processes that let external partners connect to Flex for data sharing and payments across entry points like Flex Anywhere and Quick-Pay
- Money Team - builds and owns the platforms, tooling, and documentation powering Flex's payments, wallet, and settlement finance systems.
Who thrives here?
- A Doer — you get things done efficiently, and you're comfortable rolling up your sleeves when something's blocking the team.
- An Owner — you take full accountability for what you build, from design through production, and you always have a plan B.
- Someone Collaborative — you bring people together to pressure-test ideas rather than working in a silo.
- Someone with Precision — your code and your communication are both clear, because ideas only matter once others can act on them.
- Someone Resilient — systems break and priorities shift, and you adapt without losing momentum.
- Someone Humble — you care more about getting to the right answer than being the one who's right.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 8 years experience in software engineering
- Minimum of 6 years experience with Java
- Proven ability to set technical direction and architecture for complex, distributed systems
- Ability to lead and mentor engineers, raising the technical bar across a team or org
- 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
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
- Track record of elevating team standards through best practices, and mentoring engineers at all levels
- Excellent written and verbal communicator, with experience influencing cross-functional strategy
Flex takes a market-based approach to pay, and compensation may vary depending on your primary work location. Work locations are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be commensurate with their experience, qualifications, and Flex’s internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.
Building a successful company takes a diverse team of intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self-aware people. Our headquarters is in New York City, with employees across the US, Australia, Canada, and South America. We’re growing quickly and deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. We value the perspectives our people bring and take pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.
Offices
Roles posted in New York, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City are hybrid positions with on-site expectations of 2-3 days per week in our local offices. For candidates outside of these areas, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program.
Benefits
View our benefits and more at getflex.com/careers.
Skills Required
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience
- At least 6 years of Java experience
- Ability to set technical direction and architecture for complex distributed systems
- Ability to lead and mentor engineers and raise technical standards across a team or organization
- Ability to work on a globally distributed team with a high degree of ownership
- Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align scope and delivery expectations
- Experience building robust, fault-tolerant systems with multiple external dependencies
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines
- Proficiency with Java frameworks and tools including Spring, Gradle, JUnit, and JVM performance tuning
- Experience with Service-Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, Message Queues, and scalable architectures
- Experience with AWS services including EKS, Aurora RDS, ElastiCache, and DynamoDB
- Experience with containerization tools
- Proficiency in CI/CD systems, preferably GitHub Actions
- Proficiency with Git and automation
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog
- Experience with big data platforms and tooling, including Snowflake
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using tools such as CDK and Terraform
- Track record of elevating team standards through best practices and mentoring engineers at all levels
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience influencing cross-functional strategy
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Flex, an NYC-headquartered FinTech company, has created a trusted rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2024 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult; we’re here to change that! We enable our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget, while also helping them build credit. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense.
Why Work With Us
We believe it takes a diverse team of curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. We value the unique and dynamic perspectives our team brings to solve critical problems that impact the lives of our users and the financial decisions they make.
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Flex Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Flex believes in both in-person collaboration and remote flexibility, where a portion of our employees are local to our NYC HQ (onsite M/W/TH) and a portion are remote depending on department and role scope.
