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Staff Software Engineer, Risk Engineering
Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2019H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
53 days ago
Salary
$199K - $236K / year
8 yrs expEnglishAWSDistributed SystemsDynamo DBGradleJavaJunitSpring
Job Description
• Lead the architecture and evolution of Flex’s risk decisioning platforms, supporting credit eligibility, fraud prevention, and controlled access across products.
• Own and operate high-scale, 24/7 APIs and distributed systems that power real-time risk decisions across Flex.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on system architecture, long-term platform vision, and engineering best practices.
• Balance hands-on execution with architectural decision-making, ensuring delivery velocity alongside long-term maintainability.
• Partner closely with Risk, Product, and Data Science teams to translate business and risk strategy into scalable, auditable systems.
• Drive cross-team alignment on decision frameworks, data contracts, and experimentation standards.
• Identify systemic risk, reliability, or scalability gaps and proactively lead initiatives to address them.
• Act as a technical leader and mentor, raising engineering standards through design reviews, technical guidance, and example.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, with ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems.
- Strong background in risk engineering, including credit risk, fraud detection, or decision platform architecture.
- Experience operating as a technical lead, engineering manager, or tech lead manager, with demonstrated cross-team influence.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Java, including deep knowledge of JVM performance, memory tuning, and GC.
- Proficiency with Spring (Core/Web/Boot), Gradle, and testing frameworks such as JUnit.
- Experience designing service-oriented architectures, REST APIs, message queues, and scalable systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, Aurora RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache) and containerized workloads.
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision available from Day 1
- Company equity
- 401(k) plan with company match (our company match kicks off at the beginning of 2026)
- Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Flex Cares Program
- Free Flex subscription
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