Back End Software Engineer II, Payments Platform

The Opportunity: 

Were looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer ideally with a background in FinTech to help build and maintain the platform that powers Flywires industry-leading payment engine processing hundreds of millions of dollars every day.

Youll join a team designing new functionality and improving existing capabilities to enhance speed cost efficiency and scalability. We value collaborative problem-solving pragmatic design and a shared sense of ownership over what we ship. If you care deeply about code quality and want your work to have real-world financial impact this role is for you.

Responsibilities:

• Write clean testable secure maintainable and extensible backend code across payment processing systems
• Investigate and resolve complex bugs and production issues with precision and care
• Work on non-trivial engineering problems that require deep evaluation of data system behavior and tradeoffs
• Understand and improve application scalability and performance proactively
• Contribute to technical design discussions and propose pragmatic solutions in line with team standards
• Collaborate with Product Managers QA SRE and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes
• Support and participate in the hiring process by helping identify and engage strong engineering talent
• Drive AI readiness and adoption leverage Claude via AWS Bedrock for AI-assisted development intelligent code review automated documentation and smart observability across payment workflows
• Use AWS Bedrocks enterprise controls (IAM CloudWatch VPC audit logs) to ensure AI usage remains secure compliant and fully observable within production environments

Qualifications :

Heres what we are looking for: 

Required

• 4 years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend focus
• Solid experience designing and building distributed high-throughput systems
• Good understanding of TDD BDD and CI/CD best practices
• Strong command of OOP principles clean code and system design patterns
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (MySQL PostgreSQL) and messaging/caching systems (Redis AMQP)
• Strong grasp of OOP principles clean code and common design patterns
• Collaborative working style across QA Product SRE and business teams
• AI readiness: Hands-on experience or strong familiarity with AWS Bedrock and invoking foundation models (particularly Anthropic Claude) via the Bedrock Runtime API or Converse API; ability to evaluate and responsibly apply AI tooling in production engineering contexts

Nice to Have

• Experience in FinTech payments compliance fraud & risk treasury or FX domains
• Familiarity with AWS cloud-native design patterns IAM and VPC security configurations
• Exposure to integrating Claude into developer workflows (e.g. Claude Code Bedrock-backed tooling) for engineering productivity
• Experience working in a Tech Lead capacity or supporting team mentorship
• Familiarity with Bedrocks enterprise features: CloudWatch metrics OIDC/SSO integration cross-region inference profiles

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.

#Li-Hybrid

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time