Software Engineer I

Summary

Join Flywire as a Manager I, Software Engineering, and lead a team responsible for building and maintaining the platform supporting our industry-leading payment engine. You will design new functionalities, improve existing capabilities, and ensure high-quality code within established timeframes. This role requires collaboration with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders. You will also contribute to recruitment and drive improvements throughout the development lifecycle. Flywire offers a competitive compensation package, including stock options, and a supportive, global work environment with opportunities for professional development and wellbeing.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in web application development
• 2+ years of managing and developing engineering teams
• 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
• Fluent in English, as it is the company’s working language
• The ability to deliver high quality code and learn quickly
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams including product and support

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day tasks to build and maintain the platform that supports the money movement of our industry leading payment engine moving hundreds of millions everyday
• Coordinate and support daily activities for engineers on the team and partner with their managers to determine approach for managing daily tasks
• Track success on the team based on established goals and objectives
• Play a strong technical role on projects and set priorities for the team to ensure task completion
• Work on issues of limited scope with the ability to find and execute solutions to routine problems
• Write clean, high quality, testable, secure, maintainable and extendable code
• Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
• Provide estimates, track progress, assess risk and manage the time of team members
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Partake in the recruitment process by identifying and exciting great talent
• Understand scalability and performance status and make improvement for scalability
• Drive change and improvement in all phases of the development lifecycle
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
• Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days!
• Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers!)
• Remote work is allowed!