Software Engineer II

at  Flywire

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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, delivering high-stakes, high-value payments across the global education, healthcare, travel and B2B industries.
Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 4,000+ global clients in more than 140 currencies across 240 countries and territories around the world. And, we’re just getting started!
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.
Job Description
The Opportunity:
We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Software Engineer II, ideally with a background in EdTech/FinTech. Your primary responsibility will be to build and maintain the StudyLink Connect product we’ve developed into the leading, cloud-based student admissions solution used by most of Australia’s universities and TAFEs and a fast-growing number of international institutions. The StudyLink product team is driven by a passion to enable people everywhere to achieve their goals in education by creating technology that improves choice and decisions.

You will be joining a team in charge of designing new functionalities and improving the current capabilities to improve features, 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.

• 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
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Drive change and improvement in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Work collaboratively with teams across the globe being able to understand their needs and role context

Qualifications

Here’s What We’re Looking For:

• 2-5 years of experience in web application development
• Strong understanding of object-oriented fundamentals
• Familiarity with relational databases
• Fluent in English, as it is the company’s working language
• Experience in EdTech, FinTech or the payment industry will be appreciated
• The ability to deliver high quality code and learn quickly
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams including product and support
• Front end development expertise highly desirable

Technologies We Use:

• Python, CFML (Lucee)
• Django, Flask
• React
• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora
• JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Docker, Amazon ElastiCache (Redis), EventBridge
• Desktop: Mac
• Cloud platform: AWS

Additional Information

Please refer the Job description for details