Lead the architecture and evolution of Flex’s risk decisioning platforms, supporting credit eligibility, fraud prevention, and controlled access across products.
Design and build a pricing engine from the ground up that integrates with risk decisions and supports customer- and product-level pricing.
Own and operate high-scale, 24/7 APIs and distributed systems powering risk and pricing decisions across Flex.
Provide technical leadership and guidance on system architecture, long-term platform vision, and engineering best practices.
Balance hands-on execution with architectural decision-making, ensuring delivery velocity alongside long-term maintainability.
Partner closely with Risk, Product, Data Science, and Finance leaders to translate business and risk strategy into scalable, auditable systems.
Identify systemic risk, reliability, or scalability gaps and proactively lead initiatives to address them.
Act as a technical leader and mentor, raising engineering standards through design reviews, technical guidance, and example.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software development experience, with ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems.
Strong background in risk engineering, including credit risk, fraud detection, or decision platform architecture.
Prior experience building pricing engines or pricing platforms from the ground up, ideally in fintech, payments, lending, or subscription-based products.
Experience operating as a technical lead, engineering manager, or tech lead manager, with demonstrated cross-team influence.
5+ years of hands-on experience with Java, including deep knowledge of JVM performance, memory tuning, and GC.
Proficiency with Spring (Core/Web/Boot), Gradle, and testing frameworks such as JUnit.
Experience designing service-oriented architectures, REST APIs, message queues, and scalable systems.
Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, Aurora RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache) and containerized workloads.

Benefits

Competitive medical, dental, and vision available from Day 1
Company equity
401(k) plan with company match (our company match kicks off at the beginning of 2026)
Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
Parental leave
Flex Cares Program
Free Flex subscription

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Hard skills

JavaJVM performancememory tuningSpringGradleJUnitservice-oriented architectureREST APIsmessage queuesscalable systems

Soft skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcross-team influencearchitectural decision-makingexecution balancecommunicationguidanceproblem-solvinginitiativecollaboration