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Flex · 4 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Risk Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$221K/yr - $262K/yr

8+ years exp

Flex is a growth-stage FinTech company based in NYC, focused on revolutionizing the rent payment experience. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Risk Engineering team, responsible for designing and evolving platforms that power risk decisioning, fraud prevention, and credit access across their products.

AppsBillingFinancial ServicesFinTechSoftware

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Risk engineeringJavaDistributed systemsAWSSpringCI/CD systemsService-oriented architectureTechnical leadershipCommunication skillsMentorship

Required

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

Preferred

Experience with CI/CD systems (preferably GitHub Actions), Git, and engineering automation

Strong observability and reliability practices, including tools like DataDog

Experience with data platforms and analytics tooling such as Snowflake

Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CDK, Terraform)

Proven ability to elevate engineering quality across teams through architecture, mentorship, and technical leadership

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience influencing non-engineering stakeholders

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

Company

Flex

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Flex enables people to pay rent bills on a schedule that fits their personal finances.

Founded in 2019

New York, New York, USA

201-500 employees

https://getflex.com

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