Engineering Manager, Flex
Risk Engineering
$199-213k
For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the base salary pay range will be $221,000-$237,000. + Equity
Flexible rent payment application
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Flexible rent payment application
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$199-213k
For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the base salary pay range will be $221,000-$237,000. + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Flex's mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 6 years in risk domains, with at least 3 years as a manager or tech lead
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including 4+ years with Java
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Engineering or a related field
- Proficiency in Java frameworks and tools used at Flex: Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle, JUnit, and JVM optimization
- Expertise in Service-Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, Message Queues, and scalable architecture
- Familiarity with AWS tools (EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB) and containerization
- Strong experience in delivering high-impact products end-to-end, with a focus on quality and timeliness. You are able to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs
- Ability to make analytical, data-driven decisions and recover quickly from setbacks
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with mentoring experience across various seniority levels
Desirable
- Extensive experience in adversarial domains such as Credit Risk, Fraud, Trust, or Safety
- Hands-on experience in building, designing, or managing decision platforms or rules engine architectures within the risk domain
- Proven track record in developing Data and ML/AI systems tailored to risk management
- Strong familiarity with big data platforms and tools like Snowflake for scalable data processing and analysis
- Proficiency in observability and monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog) to maintain high system availability and reliability
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Risk Domain Leader to join our team
- In this role, you will not only be hands-on with coding, driving the development of platforms and APIs essential for risk management, but also lead a skilled team of backend and full-stack developers to build and enhance a scalable, best-in-class Risk Platform that supports Flex’s current and future risk products
- As an Engineering Manager in the risk domain, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of risk from company, product, and customer perspectives
- You will align customer needs with our technical capabilities to deliver a strategic technical vision, influencing cross-functional partners to ensure that deliverables align with our north star goals in risk management while enhancing the quality of our platform
- Additionally, you will support the professional growth of your engineers, mentor teammates in agile development practices, and work closely with partners to plan, prioritize, and deliver scalable and reliable products
- You will drive DevOps best practices to ensure a robust incident response process and maintain a resilient test, build, and deployment pipeline
- As a leader in the Risk Platform team, you will drive the following key projects and systems:
- Core Decision Platform: Manage the end-to-end platform for business rule, analytics, and ML/AI-driven decision-making
- Event Data Stream: Support real-time data ingestion for rapid risk rule/policy setup
- A/B Testing and Experimentation: Enable advanced experimentation tools with adaptive algorithms for risk prevention
- Real-Time Fraud Monitoring: Deploy configurable systems to detect and respond to fraud in real-time
- ML and AI Microservices: Integrate ML/AI models as microservices for enhanced risk detection
Our take
Many people struggle to pay their rent every month, with a variety of bills hitting their bank accounts simultaneously. Whilst many of these people earn enough money to cover their bills, the inflexible nature of monthly bills can make the all-in-one payment a harder obstacle.
Flex provides a mobile application for the flexible payment of rent, allowing users to pay their landlords through flexible payment plans, reschedule payments when necessary, and protect their funds through Overdraft Protection. The company achieves this by partnering with estate agents and paying their resident's bills upfront, taking on the challenges that landlords would normally have due to late payments.
Flex has experienced extremely rapid growth since its founding which has caused some issues, as it struggled to keep up with the surge in new customers. Having made improvements to its product and scaled its customer service team, it is set to continue providing a service that has come to be highly valued by both tenants and landlords.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2022
$160m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$46.6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $225.1m
Company benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) + company stock options
- Unlimited paid time off + company paid holidays
- Parental leave + IVF and adoption support
- Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
- Pet Insurance
- Free Flex subscription
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Shragie Lichtenstein
(CEO)Experience working in venture capital investments for Point72 and TVC. Also co-founded Boundless Reality.
YeTong Shao
(CPO)Experience as Data Science Researcher. Also co-founded Boundless Reality.
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