Staff Backend Software Engineer, Flex
Consumer API
$218-234k
Plus stock options
Flexible rent payment application
Job no longer available
Flexible rent payment application
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$218-234k
Plus stock options
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
- A minimum of 8 years experience with Java is required for this position
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- Ability to build high quality APIs to specifications
- Experience with the Java frameworks and tools we use at Flex such as Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle and JUnit
- Experience implementing and operating services in distributed services environment at scale
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog for maintaining high availability
- Ability to write maintainable code that uses industry best practices to improve the entire software development life cycle (unit testing, linting, build automation)
- Good understanding of REST and mobile API best practices
- Great communication skills and ability to work with a distributed team
- Able to mentor engineers in using best practices for software development
- Prior experience working on cross functional teams
- Proficient with Java and Spring (Bonus: AWS, Containers, Kubernetes, MySql)
- Experience with CI/CD to improve code stability and code quality
- Experience with IDE’s such as VSCode and IntelliJ
- Familiar with the Java ecosystem
- Motivated to help other engineers succeed and be effective
What the job involves
- Flex is looking for a Staff Software Engineer that will be responsible for implementing the service APIs that are used by our mobile and web apps
- In this role you will be part of the orchestration team, a small team responsible for the app-friendly APIs that provide access to our core platform services
- You’ll be designing, developing, testing, and scaling the APIs needed to deliver great user experiences that simplify the complexities of rent payment processing for our customers
- You’ll work closely with your product, design and engineering peers to solve our users' most pressing problems around rent payment
- You’ll provide guidance on the long-term vision and architecture of our back-end consumer services, ensuring best practices and consistency across the team
- 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
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
10% employee growth in 12 months
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
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience working in venture capital investments for Point72 and TVC. Also co-founded Boundless Reality.
YeTong Shao
(Co-Founder)Experience as Data Science Researcher. Also co-founded Boundless Reality.
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