Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2025 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?
As an Engineering Manager overseeing cross-functional teams at Flex, you will lead and mentor a diverse group of engineers, fostering collaboration across various disciplines to deliver impactful products and platform features. Your leadership will be pivotal in defining the team's vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with Flex's mission to innovate the rent payment landscape.
Key Responsibilities- Leadership & Mentorship: Guide and inspire a team of engineers, promoting a culture of ownership, inclusiveness, accountability, pragmatism, and urgency. Provide coaching and development opportunities to cultivate talent and drive team excellence.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers, designers, operations, and business leaders to evolve the team's vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding customer needs. Ensure seamless collaboration across disciplines to build impactful products and platform features.
- Technical Excellence: Lead and participate in critical technical, design, strategy, and product discussions with leaders across the organization. Drive consensus around architectural and design decisions, ensuring our software remains scalable, secure, and maintainable.
- Product Development: Work with cross-functional partners to build impactful products and platform features. Define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers’ needs. Creatively solve challenging technical problems at scale.
- Operational Oversight: Plan and execute an engineering roadmap that balances new and innovative feature development with ongoing maintenance, reliability, and performance improvements. Establish best practices for coding, testing, deployment, and documentation, cultivating a culture of continuous improvement.
- Experience: 8+ years of industry experience designing and building complex systems and delivering quality software. 3+ years of demonstrated success managing engineering teams, including providing mentorship, feedback, and investing in the career growth of team members
- Technical Proficiency: Strong technical background in software development. You have a strong track record of delivering high quality scalable software
- Leadership Skills: Proven ability to build a world-class team by hiring exceptional talent, coaching and developing engineers, and cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making. Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and autonomy.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills with a history of healthy collaboration with product managers, engineers, and other engineering managers on developing roadmaps and executing against them.
- Problem-Solving: Well-developed curiosity and enjoyment in building creative solutions to complex problems. Ability to prioritize urgency, excellence, and delivery in a fast-paced and high-growth environment.
he compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.
- For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the base salary pay range will be $221,000-$237,000
- For all other states, the base salary pay range will be $199,000-$213,000
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Life at Flex:
We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.
We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:
- Competitive pay
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) + company equity
- Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
- Free Flex subscription
For full time non-US employees, we offer
- Competitive Pay
- Company Equity
- Unlimited PTO
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