Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Company Description

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!

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, founded a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in education, using modern technology.

Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 3,000 global clients across education, healthcare, travel & B2B, covering more than 240 countries and territories and supporting over 140 currencies. And, we’re just getting started!

With over 950+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 14 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:
At Flywire, we have ecosystems that helps our teams to deploy their applications quickly and securely, and makes sure we are compliant with Fintechs rigorous regulations (such as PCI, SOC II or HIPAA) all while staying true to cloud native principles and allowing the maximum degree of freedom to developers.

In This Work, You Will:

• Have the opportunity to work across the entire stack ( frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, etc ).
• Contribute to Flywire’s development ecosystem vision.
• Work closely with members of other internal disciplines such as Security, QA, Support, Analytics or Engineering Productivity.
• Support your fellow developers in the use of the ecosystem and advocate for best practices.
• Support the Oncall rotation and continuous improvement around production incidents.
• Maintain and extend Flywire’s internal CI and CD platforms.

What’s next in our team:

• Keep reducing tooling complexity with better abstractions
• Improving local development experience for containerized applications
• Keep pursuing full DevSecOps
• Driving towards zero-trust networking
• Pushing DataOps to the next level

Qualifications

Here’s What We’re Looking For:

We are aiming to build a multidisciplinary and balanced team based on "t-shaped" individuals. As such we are looking for people comfortable with the idea of being or becoming a generalizing specialist. 

Although we actively use and support many different platforms and languages, our team primarily uses Ruby, and Golang for our tooling. Experience with any of these languages along with testing techniques such as TDD or BDD is needed.

Also knowledge and experience with the container ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, build systems and CI/CD tools will be highly valuable. 

Having a continuous improvement mindset and a strong sense of ownership is key for being successful at this role.

Your stakeholders will be your own fellow developers, you will need to have strong communication and collaboration skills, and most importantly, empathy.

Understanding your fellow developers both technically and in a human way will allow you to find the right solutions for the job at hand and build great relationships.

Some Technologies We Use:

These are some of the technologies that we use, but we embrace an evolutionary approach so we are always learning, experimenting and open to change:

• Ruby, Go, Node, Python, Java, JavaScript
• AWS: EC2, ECS ( Fargate ), Lambda, Cloudwatch, SQS, RDS, Kinesis, S3, OpenSearch
• Terraform, Make, Docker, Jenkins, Gitlab ( CI/CD ), Sentry, Sumologic, Honeycomb

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
• Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
• Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates 
• Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days!
• Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers!)

Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 40 nationalities across 12 different offices, and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda, we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset, and we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.