Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/flex/jobs/staff-software-engineer-backend-united-states-remote Job Description: Flex Website LinkedIn All Job Openings We’re the manufacturing partner of choice that helps a diverse customer base design and build products that improve the world.We love to hear your thoughts, comments and ideas so feel free to like, share and comment away. Any question or opinion is good to go as long as it is respectful and falls within the scope of this page. Derogatory comments, spam and unsolicited selling are not welcome here and such posts will be removed. design • manufacturing • logistics • value-add services • electronics 60120 - 60120 employees Staff Software Engineer, Backend 4 days ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 💵 $199k - $262k / year ⏰ Full Time 🔴 Lead 🔙 Backend Engineer 🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor AWS Distributed Systems Docker DynamoDB Gradle Java JUnit Kubernetes MySQL NoSQL Postgres Ruby on Rails Spring Terraform Apply Now Receive Emails with Similar Jobs Report problem 📋 Description • Help set technical direction and shape the long-term architecture of backend services while remaining hands-on with coding and delivery • Design, build, and scale backend services and APIs that power Flex’s consumer apps, partner integrations, and core platforms • Collaborate across engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders to ensure scalable, reliable, and impactful systems • Provide technical leadership and guidance on system architecture, long-term vision, and team best practices • Lead the delivery of highly impactful products end-to-end, from requirements gathering to rollout, with high quality and timeliness • Mentor and support engineers, elevating technical standards and fostering growth • Build robust, fault-tolerant systems with multiple external dependencies in distributed environments • Drive adoption of best practices across the engineering org, including testing, observability, automation, and CI/CD • Operate services in production with high availability, leveraging monitoring and observability tools • Contribute to evolving Flex’s service-oriented architecture, REST APIs, message queues, and scalable system design 🎯 Requirements • 6–8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend development • 4+ years of hands-on Java experience (Spring core/web/boot, Gradle, JUnit, JVM tuning & performance) • Strong computer science fundamentals and proven experience designing scalable, distributed systems • Experience leading the delivery of multiple high-impact projects end-to-end • Skilled at working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, aligning on scope and delivery • Ability to write high-quality, testable, maintainable, and secure code • Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and relational + NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) • Proficient with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred), git, and build automation • Familiar with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog) • Excellent communicator, comfortable collaborating in globally distributed teams • Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team standards through best practices • Bonus: Experience in FinTech and familiarity with major payment rails; experience with big data platforms (e.g., Snowflake); Infrastructure as Code (CDK/Terraform) 🏖️ Benefits • 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