Remote Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Marketing)

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 2026 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?

Flex is looking for a Staff level Engineer to join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in accelerating our growth trajectory. In this role, you will be instrumental in developing and scaling the platform and app experiences that empower our users and partners, unlocking our next phase of 10x growth.

What You'll Do:

• Focus on creating exceptional user and partner experiences that drive engagement and retention.


• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists, data analysts to identify and solve critical user onboarding challenges.


• Design, develop, test, and deploy robust APIs, services and data pipelines that enhance user onboarding and overall platform experience.


• Implement changes through an agile methodology, prioritizing rapid iteration and continuous improvement.


• Utilize data and analytics to measure the impact of your work and identify opportunities for optimization.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.


• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Java.


• 3+ years of experience with React or React Native.


• 3+ years of experience with TypeScript.


• Having experience building high-quality mobile and web UIs to specifications is a must to have .


• Proficient in Java frameworks and tools used at Flex, including Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle, JUnit, and JVM (memory/performance tuning, GC).


• Experience with Service-Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, Message Queues, and scalable architectures.


• Experience with architectures and tools in React Native and React ecosystems (Hooks, Components, Context, Redux).


• Experience with AWS (EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB) and containerization tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have the experience to build and improve user onboarding funnel and design the comprehensive experiment to drive metric improvements.


• Proficient in CI/CD systems (preferably GitHub Actions), git, and automation.


• Skilled in observability and monitoring tools, such as DataDog, to ensure high availability.


• Experienced with big data platforms and tooling, including Snowflake.


• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code, using tools like CDK and Terraform.


• Skilled at elevating team standards through best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.


• Excellent written and verbal communicator, with experience in cross-functional collaboration.

Flex takes a market-based approach to pay, and compensation may vary depending on your primary work location. Work locations are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be commensurate with their experience, qualifications, and Flex’s internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.

• Tier A (NYC/SF/Seattle): $200,000—$250,000 USD


• Tier B: $180,000—$225,000 USD


• Tier C: $170,000—$212,000 USD

Life 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 & perks. For full-time U.S based positions we offer:

• 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

For full time non-US employees, we offer

• Competitive compensation + company equity


• Unlimited PTO