Summary
Join Flex, a NYC-based FinTech company revolutionizing rent payments, as a Risk Domain Leader. You'll lead a team of engineers building and enhancing a scalable risk platform using Java and AWS. This hands-on role requires managing key projects like a core decision platform and real-time fraud monitoring, leveraging AI/ML. You'll develop a deep understanding of risk across company, product, and customer perspectives, aligning customer needs with technical capabilities. The position demands strong leadership, technical expertise, and a data-driven approach. Flex offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.
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
- Bachelorβs 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