Manager I, Software Engineering

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, delivering high-stakes, high-value payments across the global education, healthcare, travel and B2B industries.

Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 4,000+ global clients in more than 140 currencies across 240 countries and territories around the world.  And, we’re just getting started!

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:

We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Manager I, Software Engineering, ideally with a background in FinTech. Your primary responsibility will be to lead the day-to-day tasks 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. 

• Coordinate and support daily activities for engineers on the team and partner with their managers to determine approach for managing daily tasks
• Track success on the team based on established goals and objectives
• Play a strong technical role on projects and set priorities for the team to ensure task completion
• Work on issues of limited scope with the ability to find and execute solutions to routine problems
• Write clean, high quality, testable, secure, maintainable and extendable code
• Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Provide estimates, track progress, assess risk and manage the time of team members
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Partake in the recruitment process by identifying and exciting great talent
• Understand scalability and performance status and make improvement for scalability
• Drive change and improvement in all phases of the development lifecycle
• 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 member

Qualifications

Here’s What We’re Looking For:

• 8 years of experience in web application development
• 1 years of managing and developing engineering teams
• 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 
• Strong understanding of object-oriented fundamentals
• Great understanding of the other disciplines in the cross functional team: QAs, Product and SREs
• Fluent in English, as it is the company’s working language 
• Experience in FinTech or the payment industry will be appreciated
• The ability to deliver high quality code and learn quickly
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams including product and support

Technologies We Use:

• Java
• JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 
• System management: Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Sidekiq, AMQP, ElasticSearch,
• Machine Learning
• Cloud platform: AWS

Our Culture:

• 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