Senior Staff Software Engineer, Flex
$247-266k
+ Equity
Flexible rent payment application
Be an early applicant
Flexible rent payment application
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$247-266k
+ 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
- The ideal candidate will be comfortable leading scoping, design, prioritization, and implementation for APIs and services they build and can drive their production rollouts to completion with minimum oversight
- Bachelor or above degree in Computer Engineering or a related field
- Minimum of 8 years experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years of technical leadership experience in a hands-on capacity
- You have experience with the Java frameworks and tools we use at Flex such as Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle and JUnit
- You have experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, such as MySQL/PostgreSQL/DynamoDB
- You have experience designing and implementing services in distributed services environment at scale
- You have experience with observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog for maintaining high availability
- You write high-quality code that is testable, maintainable, scalable, and secure
- Ability to work on a globally-distributed team with a high degree of ownership
- Experience leading the delivery of multiple highly impactful products end to end, on time with a high quality bar
- Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, successfully aligning and setting expectations on scope and delivery
- Ability to drive yourself and your team to bring quality and consistency to their code and architecture, without compromising velocity
- Ability to grow in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that will challenge you to always bring your best
- Experience in designing and developing solutions that maximize ROI and lead to significant business impact
- Experience working in FinTech and familiar with major payment rails
- Experience working on AWS cloud based applications
What the job involves
- Flex is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Core Platform Team and help build out our core services to enhance and extend our business functions
- In this role you will be part of the shared service team, responsible for the core platform that covers our major business functions such as Payment, Ledger, Identity&Auth, Settlement etc
- You’ll be designing, developing, testing, and scaling the platform needed to deliver great user and partner experiences and a reliable end-to-end payment process
- You’ll work closely with your product, design and engineering peers to solve our users' most pressing problems around rent payment
- You’ll roll out changes to our customers in an agile manner with a delivery cadence that favors small, frequent iterations
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
(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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