Staff Software & Platform Engineer

Location: This role is hybrid at our offices in NYC or Chicago, or fully remote for other areas, with opportunities to travel for team collaboration

Flexa is the leading retail payments network for digital assets. Our mission is to bring buyers and sellers closer together—on sellers’ terms—and to build and offer a safe and seamless bridge from the cobwebs of the existing global financial system to a modern and long-term sustainable infrastructure. We are passionate about the transformative power of digital currencies and we're not daunted by the prospect of starting from scratch to make the world a better place. Every day we rebuild and reconsider the very concept of what it means to use money. We are enabling faster, safer, and more private payments and helping merchants streamline checkout, reduce costs, and better serve customers.

On the Flexa engineering team, we expect each other to take the time needed to build software thoughtfully and sustainably. Our team leverages bleeding-edge tool chains, technologies, and practices, and we strive to consistently learn and improve our infrastructure and techniques. We support each other by prioritizing collaboration with our teammates over our individual engineering work. We trust that when we ask for code reviews, these requests are given our teammates’ sharpest focus and diligent feedback. We focus on reducing cycle times via continuous self-deployment.

We are currently looking for an infrastructure-focused software engineer to help us design, develop, and deploy our software and services. Our development process is lightweight and productive, and revolves around our mutual respect for each other as well as our individual dedication to building high-quality products. You may be a fit this position if you have a strong background or interest in building successful APIs, SDKs, and other systems; you have comfort with the full breadth of the software development lifecycle; you practice exceptional attention to detail; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems.

What you’ll do

• Guide our infrastructure-focused efforts by collaborating with our senior engineers and mentoring the team on your approach
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to design, develop, and document
• APIs, SDKs, and other services or tooling from inception to deployment
• Write well-designed, reusable, and testable service and library code that you—and your fellow software engineers—are happy to maintain
• Exercise ownership and accountability over your own parts of Flexa’sinfrastructure
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software systems, including the development and integration of new components or automation pipelines
• when necessary
• Ensure that the appropriate telemetry and other metrics are properly captured and communicated for the services and software to which you contribute
• Participate in code review with fellow team members to improve your work
• as well as theirs
• Participate in our on-call incident response rotation shared by the engineering team

You should have

• A desire to continue leveraging your experience building and documenting testable and publicly distributed software as part of a team (experience within the financial, retail, or blockchain technology sectors is a plus
• Strong expertise with Google Cloud Platform, Cloudflare, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Prometheus; Continuous integration and delivery/deployment (CI/CD)
• Significant production experience developing with
• A strong ability to focus on quality, detail, and thoroughness in all aspects of your work
• An approach to problem solving that’s informed by an awareness of evolving technology and software development techniques
• Excitement at the prospects of owning, operating, and observing your own software
• Interest in using well-established software interfaces, databases, tools, and approaches, such as: REST, protocol buffers, and gRPC; Postgres and NoSQL; and open-source software development and maintenance
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
• A passion for learning and growing Flexa was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York City. To learn more about how Flexa is building a better, all-digital payments network, visit us at flexa.co.

Building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can all learn from each other’s experience is core to our values at Flexa. We are an equal opportunity employer, and welcome people of all backgrounds, abilities, experiences, and perspectives to our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.