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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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