Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Staff Backend Engineer at Flex, a fintech that lets renters split rent payments across the month. You'll design, build, and scale Java/Spring services on AWS powering payments, billing, identity, and partner integrations, set long-term architecture, and mentor engineers. Hybrid in NYC, SF, or Salt Lake City.
- Compensation
- $170K–$250K / yr
- Location
- USA
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum of 8 years experience in software engineering
- Minimum of 6 years experience with Java
- Proven ability to set technical direction and architecture for complex, distributed systems
- Ability to lead and mentor engineers, raising the technical bar across a team or org
- Ability to work on a globally-distributed team with a high degree of ownership
- Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, aligning on scope and delivery
- Experience building robust, fault-tolerant systems with multiple external dependencies
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines
- Proficient in Java frameworks and tools: Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle, JUnit, JVM (memory/performance tuning, GC)
- Experience with Service-Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, Message Queues, and scalable architectures
- Experience with AWS (EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB) and containerization tools
Nice to have
- Proficient in CI/CD systems (preferably GitHub Actions), git, and automation
- Skilled in observability and monitoring tools, such as DataDog
- Experienced with big data platforms and tooling, including Snowflake
- Proficient in Infrastructure as Code, using tools like CDK and Terraform
- Track record of elevating team standards through best practices and mentoring engineers at all levels
- Excellent written and verbal communicator, with experience influencing cross-functional strategy
Full description
Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is building the payment layer for life's financial obligations, giving households one place to see, split, and pay their bills around how they live and get paid. By offering greater choice over how and when payments are made and allowing eligible on time payments to help build a positive credit history, Flex puts households back in control of their cash flow.
That work brings together people with different perspectives who challenge the status quo and take ownership of solving difficult problems. For you, that means doing the best work of your career next to people who make you better, and together bringing ideas to life that make a real impact for the people we serve.
About Our Opportunities
Flex exists to make paying rent work the way real life actually works — smoothing out cash flow, helping renters avoid late fees, and letting them build credit instead of falling behind. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design, build, and scale the services and integrations behind Payment, Billing, Identity, and partner integrations that keep rent moving on time for renters every month — setting the long-term technical vision and architecture for the systems you own, leading scoping, design, and implementation across teams, driving your own production rollouts to completion with minimal oversight, and working closely with product, design, and engineering peers to solve renters' most pressing problems in small, frequent iterations rather than big, risky releases. You'll also raise the bar for the engineers around you, mentoring peers and driving consistency and best practices across the org.
About Our Team(s)
We have some really exciting teams who are looking for an amazing engineer like you! Check them out!
- Partner Integrations - Partner integrations work to standardize APIs, tools, and processes that let external partners connect to Flex for data sharing and payments across entry points like Flex Anywhere and Quick-Pay
- Money Team - builds and owns the platforms, tooling, and documentation powering Flex's payments, wallet, and settlement finance systems.
Who thrives here?
- A Doer — you get things done efficiently, and you're comfortable rolling up your sleeves when something's blocking the team.
- An Owner — you take full accountability for what you build, from design through production, and you always have a plan B.
- Someone Collaborative — you bring people together to pressure-test ideas rather than working in a silo.
- Someone with Precision — your code and your communication are both clear, because ideas only matter once others can act on them.