Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Flex

<div class="content-intro"><p>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. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?</p></div><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Flex is hiring a Senior Engineer to join our backend engineering team, where you'll be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the systems that power our core products — including Payments, Billing, Identity, and partner integrations. You'll work on services that directly shape how hundreds of thousands of renters experience financial flexibility, and your work will have a measurable impact on the reliability and performance of everything we ship.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">In this role, you'll own meaningful portions of our backend infrastructure end-to-end — from scoping and API design through production rollout — with the autonomy to make independent technical decisions that drive real customer and business impact. You'll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering peers in an agile environment that favors small, frequent iterations over big-bang releases. The ideal candidate is comfortable leading without being asked and takes pride in shipping high-quality, fault-tolerant systems.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">At Flex, engineers are expected to bring both technical depth and a builder's mindset. You'll be working within a globally distributed team, partnering with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike, and contributing to a codebase that scales with an ambitious product roadmap. If you thrive in fast-moving environments and want your engineering work to directly improve how people pay rent, this role is for you.</p> <hr class="border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5"> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own multiple backend team goals and projects, delivering on time and with high quality with minimal oversight</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Design, build, and scale backend services and APIs across core domains including Payments, Billing, Identity, and partner integrations</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Make independent technical decisions that maximize customer and business impact, balancing speed with long-term system health</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Write elegant, well-tested code and provide constructive, thorough code reviews that elevate team standards</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Lead scoping and design discussions for new features and systems, driving production rollouts to completion</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Integrate AI-assisted development tools into your daily workflow as a default, and mentor teammates on responsible and effective AI usage</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Partner with product, design, and cross-functional engineering peers to solve high-priority user problems around rent payment</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Contribute to observability, reliability, and performance standards across the services you own</li> </ul> <hr class="border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5"> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>What You'll Bring</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4 years of hands-on Java development</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proficiency in Java frameworks and tooling including Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle, JUnit, and JVM tuning (memory, performance, GC)</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience designing and building robust, fault-tolerant systems with multiple external dependencies using Service-Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, and message queues</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Hands-on experience with AWS services (EKS, Aurora RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB) and containerization tooling</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Comfort working on a globally distributed team with a high degree of ownership and strong stakeholder communication skills</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience with CI/CD systems (preferably GitHub Actions), git, and automation practices</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog to maintain high availability</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Consistent use of AI-assisted development tools (code generation, test writing, documentation) with full ownership of correctness, security, and quality</li> </ul> <p><em>#LI-Remote</em></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><h3><strong>Compensation</strong></h3> <p>Flex takes a market-based approach to pay, and compensation may vary depending on your primary work location. Work locations are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be commensurate with their experience, qualifications, and Flex’s internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.</p></div><div class="title">Tier 1 (NYC/Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle)</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$172,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$212,000 USD</span></div></div><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Tier 2 (Austin, Washington D.C. Philadelphia, San Diego, Chicago, Atlanta)</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$154,800</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$193,500 USD</span></div></div><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Tier 3 (Salt Lake City, all other USA cities)</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$146,200</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$182,750 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><h3><strong>Life at Flex</strong></h3> <p>We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. 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.</p> <p><strong>Offices</strong></p> <p>Roles posted in New York, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City are hybrid positions with on-site expectations of 2-3 days per week in our local offices. For candidates outside of these areas, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program.</p> <p><strong>Benefits</strong></p> <p>For full-time U.S. employees we offer:</p> <ul> <li>Competitive medical, dental, and vision</li> <li>Company equity</li> <li>401(k) plan with company match&nbsp;</li> <li>Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays</li> <li>Parental leave&nbsp;</li> <li>Free Flex subscription</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;For full-time non-U.S. employees, we offer:</p> <ul> <li>Competitive compensation + company equity</li> <li>Unlimited PTO</li> </ul></div>