Senior Software Engineer II, Travel

Company Description

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a Fly Mate!

Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a Fly Mate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!

Who we are:
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world.

Today we support more than 4,800 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.

With over 1,200 global Fly Mates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for Fly Mates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer II, ideally with a background in Fin Tech. Your primary responsibility will be to build and maintain the platform that supports the money movement of our industry leading payment engine moving hundreds of millions everyday.

You will be joining a team in charge of designing new functionalities and improving the current capabilities to improve speed, cost 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.

• 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
• Understand scalability and performance status and make improvement for scalability
• Drive change and improvement in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Partake in the recruitment process by identifying and exciting great talent
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Contribute to the product vision by collaborating with Product Managers and stakeholders
• Drive initiatives to lead projects as well as mentor team members

• 8+ years of experience in web application development
• 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
• Firm grasp of OTEL and distributed tracing
• Strong understanding of object-oriented fundamentals
• Great understanding of the other disciplines in the cross functional team: QAs, Product, and SREs
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams including product and support
• Fluent in English, as it is the company’s working language
• Experience in Travel & Hospitality, Fin Tech, or the Payment industry will be appreciated
• The ability to deliver high quality code and learn quickly
• Local to Boston or Chicago is highly preferred

• Java
• React
• Postgresql
• Java script, HTML5, CSS3
• Spring Boot and Hibernate
• Docker Open Telemetry
• Cloud platform: AWS

• We are a global company. Our Engineering Team is distributed across 3 continents and 4 different countries so remote work is allowed!
• Our engineering practice is shaped around concepts including…