Staff Software Engineer, Flex

• 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
• A minimum of 5 years of experience with Java is required for this position
• You have strong computer science fundamentals
• You have experience to translate the feature requirements into technical specifications
• 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 implementing and operating services in distributed services environments 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
• You have a good understanding of REST and mobile API best practices
• You have great communication skills and are comfortable working with a distributed team

Desirable

• Flex is looking for a Software Engineer who will be responsible for implementing the various backend systems that support all business features
• In this role, you will be part of the backend engineer team, responsible for the services and integrations that power our products, such as Payment, Billing, Identity, partner integration, etc
• You’ll be designing, developing, testing, and scaling systems needed to deliver great user and partner experiences
• 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