Senior Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Flywire as a Sr. Software Engineer II and build and maintain the platform supporting the money movement of our industry-leading payment engine, processing hundreds of millions daily. You will design new functionalities, improve current capabilities to enhance speed, cost, and scalability, and collaborate on problem-solving and building high-quality products. This role requires ensuring high-quality code within defined timeframes, solving challenging bugs and production issues, and understanding scalability and performance. You will also drive change and improvement throughout the development lifecycle, participate in recruitment, and contribute to the product vision. The position offers the opportunity to mentor team members and lead projects. Flywire is a global company with a distributed engineering team, allowing for remote work.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in web application development
• Experience in designing, developing and supporting scalable, performant and reliable web applications and distributed systems
• Seasoned in techniques such TDD and BDD
• Proficient working with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
• Understanding of relational databases
• Strong understanding of object-oriented fundamentals
• Great understanding of the other disciplines in the cross functional team: QAs, Product and SREs
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams including product and support
• Fluent in English, as it is the company’s working language

Responsibilities

• Write clean, high quality, testable, secure, maintainable and extendable code
• Solve items such as challenging bugs and production issues within the development environment
• Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Understand scalability and performance status and make improvement for scalability
• Drive change and improvement in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Partake in the recruitment process by identifying and exciting great talent
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Contribute to the product vision by collaborating with Product Managers and stakeholders
• Drive initiatives to lead projects as well as mentor team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in FinTech or the payment industry will be appreciated
• The ability to deliver high quality code and learn quickly

Benefits

Remote work is allowed!