Software Engineer II, Payments Platform

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Software Engineer II, Payments PlatformFull-time Compensation: EUR 38000 - EUR 48000 - yearlyCompany DescriptionAre 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 3,300+ 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 1000+ 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 DescriptionSoftware Engineer, Payments Platform✨ Work for a global payments leader, consistently ranked one of the best companies to work for. ✨We’re looking for a Software Engineer to help build and scale the platform behind Flywire’s global payment engine, moving hundreds of millions every day across education, healthcare, travel and B2B payments.***This role is hybrid/office based in Valencia, Spain. This is crucial. We also welcome applications from candidates based in other cities in Spain who are open to relocating to Valencia.***This is a role for someone with around 2 years’ software engineering experience who wants to continue building strong technical foundations while working on real, high impact systems.You’ll be working on business critical technology that directly affects payment speed, reliability and client experience. The role offers the opportunity to learn across backend, full stack, cloud, platform engineering and AI enabled development while contributing to systems used by clients across multiple industries.Flywire is actively adopting AI across the business, including within Engineering. This role is suited to someone who is curious about modern development practices, interested in how AI can improve engineering effectiveness and keen to keep learning as technology evolves.Role FocusDepending on final team placement, the role may lean backend or full stack, so we are open to candidates with:backend experiencefull stack experienceexperience in other programming languagesstrong software engineering fundamentalsthe ability to learn new technologies quicklycuriosity around AI, LLMs and agentic development toolsYou’ll work with modern engineering teams across Java, Ruby, React, AWS, distributed systems, LLMs and agentic AI tools. You do not need prior experience with this exact stack. We’re open to engineers from other programming backgrounds who have strong fundamentals and are comfortable learning new tools and technologies.What You’ll DoBuild, maintain and improve services that support high volume payment systemsWrite clean, testable and maintainable codeContribute to new features and improve existing functionalitySupport the reliability, performance and security of our platformInvestigate technical issues and help resolve production problemsUse data, product context and technical judgement to make good engineering decisionsCollaborate with Product Managers, Designers, QA, SRE and Engineers across global teamsLearn from experienced engineers while contributing to good engineering practices within the teamExplore how AI enabled tools can support engineering productivity, quality...