Senior Software Engineer

<h3>Company Description</h3><p><strong>Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!</strong><br/> <br/> Passion, excitement &amp; 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.<br/> <br/> What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you! </p><p><br/> <strong>Who we are: </strong></p><p>Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in education, using modern technology.<br/> <br/> Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 2,800 global clients across education, healthcare, travel &amp; B2B, covering more than 240 countries and territories and supporting over 140 currencies. And, we’re just getting started!</p><p>With over 850 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 14 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>The Opportunity:</strong></p><p>We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced <strong>Senior</strong> <strong>Software Engineer</strong>, ideally with a background in FinTech. 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. </p><p>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.</p><ul><li><p>Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code</p></li><li><p>Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications</p></li><li><p>Contribute to the product vision by collaborating with the Product Manager and stakeholders</p></li><li><p>Drive change and improvement in all phases of the development lifecycle</p></li><li><p>Work collaboratively with teams across the globe being able to understand their needs and role context</p></li><li><p>Help your fellow developers to continue growing their skills</p></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Here’s What We’re Looking For:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Expertise in object-oriented programming </p></li><li><p>Experience in Java is a must </p></li><li><p>Outstanding verbal and written communication.</p></li><li><p>Experience in designing, developing and supporting scalable, performant and reliable web applications and distributed systems</p></li><li><p>Great understanding of the other disciplines in the cross functional team: QAs, Product and SREs.</p></li><li><p>Season in doing testing by applying techniques such TDD or BDD  </p></li><li><p>Experienced with continuous delivery</p></li><li><p>Experience in FinTech or the payment industry will be appreciated</p></li></ul><p><strong>Technologies We Use:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Java </p></li><li><p>React</p></li><li><p>JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 </p></li><li><p>System management: Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Sidekiq, AMQP, ElasticSearch,</p></li><li><p>Machine Learning </p></li><li><p>Cloud platform: AWS</p></li></ul><p><strong>Our Culture:</strong></p><ul><li><p>We are a global company, our engineering team is distributed across 3 continents and 4 different countries. Remote work is allowed.</p></li><li><p>Our engineering practice is shaped around some of the concepts of Agile, Lean, and Extreme Programming. Each team has a high level of autonomy to organize themselves in the way they consider more appropriate to execute their mission.</p></li><li><p>We actively engage in knowledge sharing by hosting internal cross-discipline events</p></li><li><p>We are active in contributing to open source whenever possible</p></li><li><p>We contribute to our local communities by hosting different events, Meetups, etc.</p></li></ul><p><strong>We Offer:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units </p></li><li><p>Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)</p></li><li><p>Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs &amp; Global Teams)</p></li><li><p>Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media</p></li><li><p>Dynamic &amp; Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)</p></li><li><p>Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates </p></li><li><p>B