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Salary Range
$132,600 - $179,400 /year
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About the Role
We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Payments platform team at Flex, a growth-stage FinTech company creating the best rent payment experience. This role involves leading a team of backend engineers responsible for building a highly reliable, compliant, and cost-efficient payments platform that supports rapid product expansion while safeguarding customer funds.
Key Responsibilities
- →Define and execute the long-term architecture of Flex’s multi-rail payments platform
- →Ensure financial correctness across ledgering, settlement, reconciliation, and refunds
- →Drive reliability and resilience for mission-critical money movement systems
- →Guide design reviews and make high-impact technical decisions
- →Lead cross-team initiatives spanning product, risk, and finance workflows
- →Own delivery of large, ambiguous projects from concept to production
- →Improve system scalability, observability, and incident response practices
- →Reduce payment processing costs through routing strategy and platform optimization
- →Manage, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers
- →Establish strong ownership culture and operational excellence
- →Hire and develop senior engineers and future technical leaders
- →Elevate engineering quality, testing discipline, and design rigor
- →Ensure high availability and financial accuracy SLAs
- →Lead incident response for payment-related issues
- →Build guardrails to prevent financial and compliance risk
- →Partner with Risk & Compliance teams on regulated workflows
Requirements
- ✓8+ years of backend engineering experience and 3+ years managing engineers
- ✓Experience building or operating payments, fintech, banking systems
- ✓Strong understanding of distributed systems reliability and data integrity
- ✓Experience owning production services with strict uptime and correctness requirements
- ✓Track record delivering large cross-functional initiatives
Benefits
- ★Competitive medical, dental, and vision available from Day 1
- ★Company equity
- ★401(k) plan with company match
- ★Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
- ★Parental leave
- ★Flex Cares Program
- ★Free Flex subscription
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