This company operates with a remote-first culture, allowing team members to work from anywhere. Team members are distributed across the U.S. and Canada.
Define and execute consumer architecture for New Verticals’ expansion into essential spend.
Align technical decisions with engineering leaders and reuse shared capabilities across Flex.
Guide design reviews and make technical decisions that balance experimentation with maintainability.
Partner with Product and business leadership to shape initiatives and connect engineering investments to customer and business outcomes.
Lead ambiguous projects from early exploration through launch and scale, coordinating dependencies and resolving blockers.
Manage, mentor, hire, and develop engineers, including senior engineers and future technical leads.
Own production health and reliability, and improve observability, scalability, and incident response.
Partner with Risk, Compliance, and platform teams to build safeguards into financial workflows and ensure operational readiness.
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About Flex
Flex is a growth-stage FinTech company transforming the rent payment experience. We empower renters to pay throughout the month, aligning with their finances. Our mission is to provide flexibility for the most significant recurring expense. We also offer a finance 'super app' for mid-market businesses. This platform integrates private credit, business tools, and payment solutions. We have quadrupled revenue and grew annualized total payments volume from $1 billion to $3 billion in the past year. We also secured $105 million in equity funding, valuing us near $500 million.
How We Work
We foster a culture of radical transparency, integrity, and individual growth. Our remote-first philosophy empowers you with significant independence. You will take ownership of business challenges and execute innovative solutions. We embrace diversity across our teams, located throughout the U.S., Australia, Canada, and South America. We are also an AI-first engineering organization, seeking domain experts who leverage AI-augmented workflows for world-class reliability.
Engineering at Flex
Our engineering teams build and scale robust backend services and APIs across consumer products, partner integrations, and critical risk management platforms. You will work on designing, implementing, and maintaining core services like Identity, Auth, Payment, Financial, and Risk. We optimize for performance, resilience, and cost. We also use Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning on AWS and GCP. Expect to improve developer workflows by creating self-service tools and optimizing CI/CD pipelines. Our stack involves Java, Python, TypeScript, Golang, relational and NoSQL databases like MySQL and DynamoDB. We also utilize GitHub Actions for CI/CD and Datadog for monitoring.
Why Join Us
Influence key infrastructure and architecture decisions in an AI-first organization.
Take absolute ownership of business challenges and solution execution.
Contribute to a product that provides financial flexibility to millions of renters.
Work with a diverse, globally distributed team committed to transparency and growth.
Shape the future of FinTech in a rapidly scaling company backed by significant funding.
Benefits & Perks
Competitive compensation with market-based adjustments.
Company equity for all full-time U.S. employees.
401(k) plan with company match.
Unlimited paid time off plus 13 company holidays.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Generous parental leave.
Flex Cares Program: non-profit company match and pet adoption coverage.
Free Flex subscription.
Relocation assistance for hybrid roles in NYC, SF, or Salt Lake City.