Staff Frontend Engineer

Location: NYC, Chicago, or fully remote, with opportunities to travel for team

collaboration.

Flexa is the leading retail payments network for digital assets. Our mission is to bring buyers and sellers closer together—on sellers’ terms—and to build and offer a safe and seamless bridge from the cobwebs of the existing global financial system to a mo modern and long-term sustainable infrastructure. We are passionate about the transformative power of digital currencies and we're not daunted by the prospect of starting from scratch to make the world a better place. Every day we rebuild and reconsider the very concept of what it means to use money. We are enabling faster, safer, and more private payments and helping merchants streamline checkout, reduce costs, and better serve customers.

We are currently looking for a staff-level software engineer with a visual designer’s eye as well as the ability to develop and deploy our software and services. Our development process is lightweight and productive, and revolves around our mutual respect for each other as well as our individual dedication to building high-quality products. You may be a fit for this position if you have a strong background or interest in working in a full stack capacity, building successful public-facing software applications; you have comfort with the full breadth of the software development lifecycle; you practice world-class attention to detail to UI/UX; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems.

On the Flexa engineering team, we expect each other to take the time needed to build software thoughtfully and sustainably. Our team leverages bleeding-edge tool chains, technologies, and practices, and we strive to consistently learn and improve our infrastructure and techniques. We support each other by prioritizing collaboration with our teammates over our individual engineering work. We trust that when we ask for code reviews, these requests are given our teammates’ sharpest focus and diligent feedback. We focus on reducing cycle times via continuous self-deployment.

What you’ll do

● Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to design, develop, and document APIs, SDKs, and other services or tooling from inception to deployment

● Write well-designed, reusable, and testable service and library code that you—and your fellow software engineers—are happy to maintain

● Exercise ownership and accountability over your own parts of Flexa’s software systems

● Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software systems, including the development and integration of new components or automation pipelines when necessary

● Ensure that the appropriate automated tests and metrics are properly captured and communicated for the services and software to which you contribute

● Participate in code review with fellow team members to improve your work as well as theirs

● Participate in our on-call incident response rotation shared by the engineering team

You should have

● A desire to continue leveraging your experience building and documenting testable and publicly distributed software as part of a team (experience within the financial, retail, or blockchain technology sectors is a plus.

● A meticulous attention to detail and workmanship that comes from a long history of honing your craft and constantly seeking out new knowledge.

● Experience interpreting and breaking down complex designs and planning out an implementation approach in close collaboration with a cross-disciplinary team.

● Experience building responsive user interfaces in React and Typescript with precision, using your deep intuition for what makes an excellent customer experience to guide all relevant technical decisions

● Experience with meta-frameworks (Astro, Next.js, Remix, Gatsby, etc.) for rendering dynamic content with Server-Side Rendering .

● Experience or knowledge of common React patterns (Compound Components, Control Props, Render Props, etc.)

● Extensive experience with working with APIs such as REST, GraphQL or gRPC.

● Knowledge of modern CSS techniques (Tailwind, CSS-in-JS, CSS modules).

● Strong familiarity with open-source software development and maintenance.

● An approach to problem solving that’s informed by habits of being “early-adopting and fast-adapting,” including an awareness of evolving technology and software development techniques

● Excitement at the prospects of owning, operating, and observing your own software

● Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills

● A passion for learning and growing

Flexa was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York City. To learn more about how Flexa is building a better, all-digital payments network, visit us at flexa.co

Building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can all learn from each other’s experience is core to our values at Flexa. We are an equal opportunity employer, and welcome people of all backgrounds, abilities, experiences, and perspectives to our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without rega to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.