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FlexSenior Engineering Manager, Consumer / New Verticals
Flex is a growth-stage FinTech company headquartered in New York City that builds a payment layer for life’s financial obligations, helping households manage, split, and pay…
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Flex is a growth-stage FinTech company headquartered in New York City that builds a payment layer for life’s financial obligations, helping households manage, split, and pay bills. The company is expanding beyond rent into a broad consumer bill management platform, and its New Verticals division is driving this growth. Flex is currently seeking a remote Senior Engineering Manager to lead consumer engineering teams within this division. This role suits an…
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Flex is a growth-stage FinTech company headquartered in New York City that builds a payment layer for life’s financial obligations, helping households manage, split, and pay bills. The company is expanding beyond rent into a broad consumer bill management platform, and its New Verticals division is driving this growth. Flex is currently seeking a remote Senior Engineering Manager to lead consumer engineering teams within this division. This role suits an experienced engineering leader who thrives in ambiguous environments, possesses strong product judgment, and enjoys turning new ideas into scalable products.
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will partner closely with product managers and business leadership to deliver user experiences and power underlying systems tied to critical business key performance indicators. You will guide technical direction, manage a team of adaptable and AI-enabled engineers, and serve as a vital technical partner to cross-functional groups such as Legal and Compliance, Risk, and Lifecycle Marketing. Furthermore, you will represent consumer engineering in company-wide quality and architecture initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the consumer architecture supporting the expansion into essential spend
- Partner with Product and business leadership to shape initiatives and link engineering investments to customer value
- Lead large, ambiguous projects from early exploration through launch and scale
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of engineers while fostering operational excellence and engineering quality
- Hire and develop senior engineers and future technical leads
- Own production health, reliability, observability, and scalability of the team's consumer services
- Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and platform teams to embed safeguards into customer financial workflows
Requirements
- 8 plus years of software engineering experience spanning frontend and backend systems
- 3 plus years of managing engineers
- Experience building and scaling consumer-facing products along with the APIs and backend systems powering them
- Demonstrated track record of partnering with business and product leaders to deliver results
- Experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from early definition through launch and iteration
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, reliability, and data integrity
- Experience owning production services with high standards for uptime, correctness, and operational readiness
Qualifications
- Experience building or operating consumer fintech, payments, banking, or lending products
- Experience launching a new product or business line from early experimentation through adoption and scale
- Familiarity with customer onboarding, bill management, payment workflows, or other consumer financial experiences
- Experience utilizing product analytics and experimentation to impact engagement or retention
- Background partnering with Risk and Compliance teams within a regulated environment
- Experience scaling high-growth consumer platforms
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Is this position remote?
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Candidates must have at least 8 years of software engineering experience spanning frontend and backend systems, plus a minimum of 3 years of engineering management experience.
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The position is full-time.
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