Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering

Summary

Join Flex, a NYC-based FinTech company revolutionizing rent payments, as a Risk Domain Leader. You'll be hands-on with coding, leading a team of developers to build and enhance a scalable Risk Platform. This role requires a deep understanding of risk management and aligning customer needs with technical capabilities. You will mentor engineers, drive DevOps best practices, and manage key projects like the Core Decision Platform and Real-Time Fraud Monitoring. Flex offers competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and a dynamic work environment.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years in risk domains, with at least 3 years as a manager or tech lead
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including 4+ years with Java
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Engineering or a related field
• Proficiency in Java frameworks and tools used at Flex: Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle, JUnit, and JVM optimization
• Expertise in Service-Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, Message Queues, and scalable architecture
• Familiarity with AWS tools (EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB) and containerization
• Strong experience in delivering high-impact products end-to-end, with a focus on quality and timeliness. You are able to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs
• Ability to make analytical, data-driven decisions and recover quickly from setbacks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with mentoring experience across various seniority levels

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end platform for business rule, analytics, and ML/AI-driven decision-making
• Support real-time data ingestion for rapid risk rule/policy setup
• Enable advanced experimentation tools with adaptive algorithms for risk prevention
• Deploy configurable systems to detect and respond to fraud in real-time
• Integrate ML/AI models as microservices for enhanced risk detection
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of risk from company, product, and customer perspectives
• Align customer needs with our technical capabilities to deliver a strategic technical vision, influencing cross-functional partners to ensure that deliverables align with our north star goals in risk management while enhancing the quality of our platform
• Support the professional growth of your engineers, mentor teammates in agile development practices, and work closely with partners to plan, prioritize, and deliver scalable and reliable products
• Drive DevOps best practices to ensure a robust incident response process and maintain a resilient test, build, and deployment pipeline

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience in adversarial domains such as Credit Risk, Fraud, Trust, or Safety
• Hands-on experience in building, designing, or managing decision platforms or rules engine architectures within the risk domain
• Proven track record in developing Data and ML/AI systems tailored to risk management
• Strong familiarity with big data platforms and tools like Snowflake for scalable data processing and analysis
• Proficiency in observability and monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog) to maintain high system availability and reliability

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) + company equity
• Unlimited paid time off with a PTO minimum + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
• Free Flex subscription
• Competitive Pay
• Company Equity
• Unlimited PTO