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Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2025 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?
Flex Engineering is seeking senior engineers to join the Data Infrastructure team that is shaping the future of our finance data platforms. The Data Infrastructure team is dedicated to building a scalable, modern data platform to support Flex’s current and future financial products with a cutting-edge, forward-thinking approach. Our goal is to empower all facets of the business with Machine Learning and Business Intelligence, enhancing the end-users' ability to better utilize our data. Our impact extends beyond reporting and analytics; our tools directly influence the growth and strategy of Flex’s future direction. At Flex, we have a culture of data-driven decision-making, and we demand data that is timely, accurate, and actionable.
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain high-quality data infrastructure services, including but not limited to Data Lake, Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, and data access layers.
- Develop robust and efficient DBT models and jobs to support analytics reporting and machine learning modeling.
- Closely collaborating with the Analytics team for data modeling, reporting, and data ingestion.
- Create scalable real-time streaming pipelines and offline ETL pipelines.
- Design, implement, and manage a data warehouse that provides secure access to large datasets.
- Continuously improve data operations by automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and redesigning infrastructure for greater scalability.
- Create engineering documentation for design, runbooks, and best practices.
What We’re Looking For
- A minimum of 8 years of industry experience in the data infrastructure/data engineering domain.
- A minimum of 8 years of experience with Python and SQL. Java experience is a plus.
- A minimum of 4 years of industry experience using DBT.
- A minimum of 4 years of industry experience using Snowflake and its basic features.
- A minimum of 4 years of industry experience using Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically CDK and Terraform.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for key collaboration
- Familiarity with AWS services, with industry experience using Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, RDS, EKS, DMS, EMR, etc.
- Industry experience with different big data platforms and tools such as Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Cassandra, Airflow, etc.
- Industry experience working with relational and NoSQL databases in a production environment.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
Core competencies:
- Prior experience working on cross-functional teams.
- Experience with CI/CD to improve code stability and code quality.
- Motivated to help other engineers succeed and be effective.
- Excited to work in an ambiguous, fast-paced, and high-growth dynamic environment.
The salary compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.
For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the base salary pay range will be $221,000-$237,000
For all other states, the base salary pay range will be $199,000-$213,000
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Life at Flex:
We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.
We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:
- Competitive pay
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) + company equity
- Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
- Free Flex subscription
For full time non-US employees, we offer
- Competitive Pay
- Company Equity
- Unlimited PTO
Flex New York, New York, USA Office
NYC employees are invited to visit the WeWork located in the heart of Manhattan, near Union Square, however, more than 2/3rds of our employee base is fully remote. Flex is dedicated to building an equitable, remote-first culture!
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