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 Senior 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 — leading scoping, design, and implementation for the APIs you own, 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.
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
Fin Platform - Fin Platform is the monitoring and operations layer for Flex's billing and payment systems, covering dashboards, SLIs/SLOs, runbooks, deployment and on-call procedures to ensure reliability and readiness.
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.
Someone Resilient — systems break and priorities shift, and you adapt without losing momentum.
Someone Humble — you care more about getting to the right answer than being the one who's right.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum of 6 years experience in software engineering
Minimum of 4 years experience with Java
Ability to work on a globally-distributed team with a high degree of ownership
Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, successfully aligning and setting expectations on scope and delivery
Ability to grow in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that will challenge you to always bring your best
Experience building robust, fault-tolerant systems with multiple external dependencies
Experience designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines
Proficient in Java frameworks and tools used at Flex, including Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle, JUnit, and 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
Preferred Qualifications
Proficient in CI/CD systems (preferably GitHub Actions), git, and automation
Skilled in observability and monitoring tools, such as DataDog, to ensure high availability
Experienced with big…