Senior Software Engineer I - Travel Integrations

Company Description

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

Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. 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 FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
 

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Senior Engineer, Travel Integrations will be a critical member of our strategy, responsible for architecting, designing, and leading the development of sophisticated integration solutions to support Flywire's Travel vertical. This role demands deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and excellent leadership skills to guide complex projects from conception through execution. This role will partner directly with the Senior Product Manager for integrations. This is an opportunity to tackle challenging problems and develop technologically elegant solutions that scale to serve millions of users. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development, and deployment of high-impact integrations with leading Property Management Systems and hotel Customer Relationship Management systems
• Lead the development and deployment of a developer platform that enables partners to programmatically build integrations inside the Flywire Travel platform.
• Master AI tooling to accelerate development velocity and creativity
• Mentor junior engineers and ensure technical excellence within the integration team.

Activities:

• Integration Development (80%)
• Thoroughly analyze integration viability with product management to carefully shape each integration design
• Collaborate with technology leaders at partner companies to ensure unblocked delivery and effective integration enablement
• Build and maintain new integrations
• Proactively manage technical debt and configuration complexities across integrations.
• Platform Development (10%)
• Build and maintain public API for Flywire Travel Contracts services
• Architect scalable and maintainable internal systems that align with Flywire's long-term integration strategy
• Mentorship and teaching (10%)
• Conduct code reviews, establish best practices, and drive continuous improvement.

12-18 Month Objectives:

• Lead the engineering execution of 10 new integrations
• Successfully rebuild and deploy the unified Salesforce integration, significantly reducing complexity and increasing maintainability.
• Lead the launch of Opera v2 integration focused on OHIP, leveraging new APIs and aligning with strategic future platform states.

Qualifications

Here's What We're Looking For:

• 10+ years of experience in software development
• Proven engagement with AI development best practices and a viewpoint on their application
• Proven expertise with API design (REST, GraphQL), microservices architecture, and event-driven systems
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms and related services
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, mentor junior engineers, and drive best practices
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, partners, and other stakeholders
• Experience architecting and implementing complex integration solutions
• Experience in the travel or FinTech industry is a plus

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program 
• Work with brilliant people that will keep you on