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Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc

Software Engineer II, Backend, Consumer API Remote (U.S.)

Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc, New York, New York, us, 10261


Remote (U.S.)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 2024 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?About the role

Flex is looking for a Software Engineer that will be responsible for implementing the service APIs that are used by our mobile and web apps.In this role you will be part of the orchestration team, a small team responsible for the app-friendly APIs that provide access to our core platform services. You’ll be designing, developing, testing, and scaling the APIs needed to deliver great user experiences that simplify the complexities of rent payment processing for our customers.You’ll work closely with your product, design and engineering peers to solve our users' most pressing problems around rent payment. You’ll roll out changes to our customers in an agile manner with a delivery cadence that favors small, frequent iterations. The ideal candidate will be comfortable leading scoping, design and implementation for APIs they build and can drive their production rollouts to completion with minimum oversight.A minimum of 3 years experience with Java is required for this position.Skills that are required:

Strong computer science fundamentalsAbility to build high quality APIs to specificationsExperience with the Java frameworks and tools we use at Flex such as Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle and JUnitExperience implementing and operating services in distributed services environment at scaleExperience with observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog for maintaining high availabilityAbility to write high quality code that is testable, maintainable, scalable and secureGood understanding of REST and mobile API best practicesGreat communication skills and ability to work with a distributed teamCore Competencies:

Prior experience working on cross functional teamsProficient with Java and Spring (Bonus: AWS, Containers, Kubernetes, MySql)Experience with CI/CD to improve code stability and code qualityExperience with IDE’s such as VSCode and IntelliJFamiliar with the Java ecosystemThe salary compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the base salary pay range will be $179,000-$194,000For all other states, the base salary pay range will be $161,000-$175,000Life at Flex: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.We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:Competitive pay100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision401(k) + company equityUnlimited paid time off with a PTO minimum + 13 company paid holidaysParental leaveFlex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverageFree Flex subscriptionFor full time non-US employees, we offer:Competitive PayCompany EquityUnlimited PTOApply for this job

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