Lead the architecture and evolution of Flex’s risk decisioning platforms, supporting credit eligibility, fraud prevention, and controlled access across products.
Own and operate high-scale, 24/7 APIs and distributed systems that power real-time risk 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, and Data Science teams to translate business and risk strategy into scalable, auditable systems.
Drive cross-team alignment on decision frameworks, data contracts, and experimentation standards.
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.
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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentdistributed systemsrisk engineeringcredit riskfraud detectionJavaSpringREST APIsservice-oriented architectureAWS

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcross-team influencementoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingdecision-makingguidancealignmentexecution