Senior Back End Software Engineer I, Payments Platform

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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, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer I, 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. 

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. 

• Write clean, high quality, testable, secure, maintainable and extendable code
• Solve items such as challenging bugs and production issues within the development environment
• Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Understand scalability and performance status and make improvement for scalability
• Drive change and improvement in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Partake in the recruitment process by identifying and exciting great talent
• 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 members
• 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 within the platform remains secure, compliant, and observable
• Partner with Product, SRE, and global stakeholders to translate complex, high-stakes requirements into robust engineering outcomes

Here’s What We’re Looking For:

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record in senior or lead roles
• Demonstrated expertise designing and building distributed, high-throughput systems
• Deep 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 cross-functional collaboration skills 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
• Experience integrating Claude into developer workflows (e.g., Claude Code, Bedrock-backed tooling) for engineering productivity
• Prior experience as a Tech Lead or Staff Engineer
• Exposure to 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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