Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Flex is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for implementing the platforms and APIs that support all business features.

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, 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.  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 4 years of experience with Java is required for this position.

Who you are: 

• You have strong computer science fundamentals
• You have experience to translate the feature requirements into technical specifications.
• You have experience leveling up the entire team’s bar by introducing best practices, mentoring junior people, etc.
• 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

Core competencies: 

• Prior experience working on cross functional teams
• Experience with leading the project in its entire lifecycle, from requirements gathering to delivery.
• Proficient with Java and Spring (Bonus: AWS, Containers, Kubernetes, MySql)
• Experience with CI/CD to improve code stability and code quality

The national pay range for this role is $160,000-$210,000. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience aligned with Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.