Full-Time Sr. Software Engineer I

The Opportunity:

We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer I, ideally with a background in FinTech product oriented companies. Your primary responsibility will be to build and maintain the main payment experience for our platform that supports the money movement of our industry leading payment engine moving hundreds of millions for thousands of users everyday. 

You will join a team responsible for designing new features and enhancing existing ones to boost engagement, conversion rates, speed, cost efficiency and scalability of our product. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, pragmatic design, building quality products and to convey the sensation that the product is the responsibility of all the team is essential. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality code in a team defined timeframe working both in the frontend and backend of our product. 

• 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
• 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 multiple stakeholders and teams across engineering, product and design.
• Work collaboratively with teams across the globe by understanding their needs
• Help your fellow developers to continue growing their skills

Here’s What We’re Looking For:

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining SPA based web application development, both in frontend and backend 
• 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 
• Experience in Web Accessibility principles
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining Javascript libraries is a plus
• Understanding of o11y principles and tools
• 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 
• Experience in FinTech or the payment industry will be appreciated
• 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

Technologies We Use:

• Ruby (open to backend languages such as Java, Python)
• React (open to any other SPA framework such as Angular or Vue)
• Typescript, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, Tailwind CSS
• Jest, Playwright 
• System management: Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Sidekiq, AMQP, ElasticSearch,
• Docker
• Cloud platform: AWS