Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Flex

Staff Software Engineer on Money Team developing core financial infrastructure for Flex. Responsible for backend services, architecture, and technical leadership in payments system.

Posted 7/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsDockerDynamoDBGradleJavaJUnitKubernetesMySQLNoSQLPostgresSpring

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and scale backend services and APIs that power Flex's core financial infrastructure, including payments, money movement, billing, settlements, reconciliation, and ledger systems.
Lead the architecture and evolution of highly available, fault-tolerant financial platforms that process and track millions of dollars in transactions with accuracy, reliability, and auditability.
Provide technical leadership and guidance on distributed systems design, financial data consistency, transaction integrity, and long-term platform strategy.
Drive the delivery of highly impactful initiatives end-to-end, from requirements gathering and technical design through implementation, rollout, and operational excellence.
Partner closely with Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable and compliant payment experiences.
Build robust systems that integrate with external payment processors, banking partners, card networks, and financial service providers.
Design and implement resilient ledger, settlement, and reconciliation workflows that ensure financial accuracy across the ecosystem.
Drive adoption of engineering best practices across the organization, including observability, automated testing, reliability engineering, CI/CD, and secure software development.
Mentor and support engineers on the team, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
Operate mission-critical financial services in production with stringent uptime, security, compliance, and performance requirements.
Contribute to the evolution of Flex's service-oriented architecture, event-driven systems, APIs, message queues, and scalable financial platforms.
Balance hands-on execution with architectural leadership, ensuring both rapid delivery and long-term maintainability of critical money movement systems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6–8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend development.
4+ years of hands-on Java experience (Spring core/web/boot, Gradle, JUnit, JVM tuning & performance).
Strong computer science fundamentals and proven experience designing scalable, distributed systems.
Deep experience building or operating financial systems, including payments, money movement, ledgers, settlements, reconciliation, billing, or banking infrastructure.
Experience integrating with payment processors, settlement, card networks, banking partners.
Strong understanding of transactional systems, financial data consistency, idempotency, auditability, and fault tolerance in distributed environments.
Skilled at working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, aligning on scope and delivery.
Ability to write high-quality, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and relational + NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
Proficient with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred), git, and build automation.
Familiar with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog) for maintaining service availability.
Excellent communicator, comfortable collaborating in globally distributed teams.
Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team standards through best practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive medical, dental, and vision
Company equity
401(k) plan with company match
Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
Parental leave
Free Flex subscription

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Hard Skills & Tools

Backend DevelopmentJava (Spring Core/Web/Boot)Distributed Systems DesignFinancial SystemsTransaction IntegritySecure Code DevelopmentRelational DatabasesNoSQL DatabasesObservabilityAutomated Testing

Soft Skills

Technical LeadershipCollaborationMentoringCommunicationStakeholder Alignment