Software Engineer II

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

Requirements

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