The Flex
Staff Software Engineer, FinPlatform Backend
USA · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$250kDetected 5 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaGoRailsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLMySQLDynamoDBAWSTerraformPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningAccessibilityFinancial AnalysisVPNLeadershipCommunicationMentoringFinancial Reporting
About the role
- Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience.
- It's hard to believe that it's 2026 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult.
- Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain our Finance service and internal tooling, including financial reporting, reconciliation/audit process.
- Design and develop new APIs and functionalities to support large money movements across our banking partners via different payment rails, such ACH.
- Scale out core platform to support business growth while maintaining performance and reliability
- Continuously improving our daily operations with automation, tooling, design evolution, observability etc.
- Experience in designing and developing the fault-tolerant and scalable distributed systems
- We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software development or a related field
- Experience in technical leadership, guiding engineering teams through complex projects
- Experience with Java, Python, Golang, or TypeScript/Node.js.
- Strong experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, such as MySQL/PostgreSQL/DynamoDB
- Experience with AWS cloud services: ESC/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, VPN, RDS etc
- Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
- Experience with finance reporting and reconciliation
- Deep experience with writing complex query and data mining
Compensation
- Flex takes a market-based approach to pay, and compensation may vary depending on your primary work location.
- The successful candidate's starting pay will be commensurate with their experience, qualifications, and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.
- $200,000 - $250,000 USD
- $180,000 - $225,000 USD
- $170,000 - $212,500 USD
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision
- Company equity
- Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
- Parental leave
Company info
- Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense.
- What We're Looking For
- For full-time U.S. employees we offer:
- For full-time non-U.S. employees, we offer:
Equal opportunity
- Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.
- equal opportunity workplace.
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