Senior Full Stack Software Engineer II
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9 hours ago
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Job Summary
The Opportunity :
We at Flywire are looking for a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer II. As a Senior Software Engineer II you will be a key contributor and technical leader for our billing and payments product that supports the money movement of hundreds of millions every day. This is a full-stack role that requires a blend of deep technical proficiency architectural foresight and the ability to navigate highly complex client requirements. You will be expected to work autonomously often driving cross-team technical initiatives while maintaining a strong collaborative presence with other teams across the globe. The ideal candidate for this position is a person that thrives in taking on challenges of high scope and complexity. You will be joining a small team in Australia that will be in charge of designing new functionality improving our current core capabilities and elevating our engineering practices. We are looking for an engineer who balances a pragmatic long-term design approach with a commitment to building highly secure reliable and scalable systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture & Development: Architect services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to allow for iterative development and future scaling. Working closely with US technical leadership you will translate global architectural vision into local execution confidently starting new projects from scratch in high-risk high-volume areas while consistently applying SOLID principles.
- AI-Augmented Engineering: Design and implement team-level AI-augmented workflows that measurably improve velocity for the Australian engineering team. You will evaluate new AI tools (assessing ROI security and data privacy) mitigate risks at a systems level and create reusable configurations that benefit teammates locally and abroad.
- Operations & Reliability: Drive design and deliver software that meets strict reliability performance and scalability requirements. You will define SLOs/SLIs actively work with global security teams to refine organisational strategy and act as a regional owner for postmortems to ensure long-term mitigations are executed.
- Complex Problem Solving: Act as the primary technical escalation point in the APAC time zone to identify and solve complex cross-system problems. You will lead local and cross-team groups during high-urgency production issues correctly assessing scope and impact and collaborating with global teams for seamless incident handoffs.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Serve as the Tech Lead on the ground in Australia. You will mentor the local team structure technical proposals into the global company roadmap defend team goals and foster a culture where teammates openly share opinionsusing contradictory viewpoints to drive constructive conversations.
- Project Management & Productivity: Successfully manage the Australian teams commitments roadmap planning and delivery in alignment with the global team. You will critically review epics to ensure they are appropriately sized schedule technical debt relative to global cross-team changes and routinely manage multiple major projects simultaneously.
- Strategic Communication: Act as the technical bridge between the Australia office and the global team. You will distill technical feedback from global teams into concrete local proposals and communicate effectively across Flywire and with external clients maintaining composure and clarity in high-pressure discussions.
Technical Requirements
- Advanced Java Proficiency: Expert-level professional experience in Java development with a deep understanding of how libraries and software evolve over time (often reading vendor libraries to identify undocumented behaviors).
- System Architecture: Deep understanding of relational databases (MySQL) infrastructure tooling and cross-system data flows. Expertise in applying common patterns for service reliability (retries failover circuit breakers etc.).
- Core Stack: Extensive experience with Spring Core Spring MVC and Hibernate alongside the ability to evaluate and determine new technologies that align with current usage.
- Front-End Skills: Familiarity with HTML CSS JavaScript and JSP (Java Server Pages).
- Modern Workflow & Automation: Ability to drive automation and performance indicators for services leveraging advanced monitoring tooling and AI-assisted tools for enterprise-grade deployment.
Qualifications :
Heres what we are looking for :
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
- Strategic & Visionary: You contribute directly to the organizations engineering strategy and documentation. You evaluate and create new product features in collaboration with the product team while continually simplifying product and technical design.
- Culture Builder: You foster a culture of clear concise audience-oriented communication. You work within your team to instill priority setting and urgency aligned with organizational goals.
- Adaptable: You have the aptitude to learn new systems or legacy codebases quickly and can manage your own time effectively to meet deadlines.
- Cross-Functional Collaborator: You proactively anticipate problems in cross-team projects before they require escalation and gladly help other teams unblock design doubts using your deep architectural knowledge.
- Global Collaborator: You enjoy working with diverse teams across different time zones and possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Professional experience in application development commensurate with the SS2 level (extensive track record as a lead or principal-level contributor in a complex production environment).
- Proven ability to independently identify scope and deliver cross-team technical solutions.
- Experience in FinTech Payments or Higher Education sectors is highly appreciated.
- Demonstrated history of successfully managing multi-team projects architectural design and high-pressure incident response.
Additional Information :
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
- Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
- Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
- Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health Wellness Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
- Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
- Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and
- Digital Disconnect Days!
- Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight for new or aspiring managers!)
Submit today and get started!
We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager Peers on the team the VP of the department and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your go-to person for any questions.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 40 nationalities across 14 different offices diversity gender equality and inclusion are at the core of our people agenda. We believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset and were excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, delivering high-stakes, high-value payments across the global education, healthcare, travel and B2B industries. Today, weve digitized payments for more than 4,000+ global clients in more than 140 currencies across 240 cou ... View more
