Back End Software Engineer II, Payments Platform (FX)

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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 4,900+ 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.a

The Opportunity: 

We're looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer, ideally with a background in FinTech, to help build and maintain the platform that powers Flywire's industry-leading payment engine — processing hundreds of millions of dollars every day.

You'll 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 Bedrock's enterprise controls (IAM, CloudWatch, VPC, audit logs) to ensure AI usage remains secure, compliant, and fully observable within production environments

Here's 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 Bedrock's enterprise features: CloudWatch metrics, OIDC/SSO integration, cross-region inference profiles

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 we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.

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