--- title: 'Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer / New Verticals at Flex' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-engineering-manager-consumer-new-verticals-flex-global-vcxx8wwkjn3b' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-12' --- # Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer / New Verticals at Flex - **Company:** Flex - **Location:** Global - **Compensation:** $200k–$300k - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flex/jobs/4751411005 ## Job description Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is building the payment layer for life's financial obligations, giving households one place to see, split, and pay their bills around how they live and get paid. By offering greater choice over how and when payments are made and allowing eligible on time payments to help build a positive credit history, Flex puts households back in control of their cash flow. That work brings together people with different perspectives who challenge the status quo and take ownership of solving difficult problems. For you, that means doing the best work of your career next to people who make you better, and together bringing ideas to life that make a real impact for the people we serve. ## About the Job Flex is a growth-stage, NYC-headquartered FinTech company building the payment layer for life’s financial obligations—giving households one place to see, split, and pay their bills around how they live and get paid. By giving people greater choice over how and when they pay, and helping eligible on-time payments build a positive credit history, Flex puts households back in control of their cash flow. Building on our roots in rent, we’re expanding into a broader consumer bill management platform that helps people manage essential spend and align payments with their finances. Our Consumer engineering team within the New Verticals division is at the forefront of this expansion, building a new business line within Flex. We’re looking for motivated leaders who thrive in ambiguity, turn new ideas into products, and help shape how millions of people manage their financial lives.About the Role We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to own consumer engineering teams within the New Verticals division. These teams partner closely with the product and the business to deliver high quality and delightful user experiences and the systems that power them. You will own multiple workstreams that tie directly to critical business KPIs. You will work closely with product managers to drive delivery of their workstreams with your team of highly adaptable, AI-enabled engineers who reside in the Consumer organization but range across the entire Flex system as necessary. You will serve as a key technical partner to Product, business leadership, and cross-functional teams (such as Lifecycle Marketing (LCM), Legal & Compliance, and Risk) to drive outcomes across your workstreams. You will also represent Consumer engineering and New Verticals in Flex-wide architecture and quality initiatives, ensuring we build solutions that scale across Flex as a whole. Our Engineering Teams - Consumer Engineering: Builds the APIs and backend systems powering Flex’s consumer-facing mobile and web apps. This team focuses on delivering high quality, delightful and trustful customer experiences. - Partner Integrations Engineering: Owns the backend services and integrations that connect Flex to financial partners and payment networks, ensuring secure, reliable payment flows and partner-facing experiences. - Core Platform Engineering: Maintains the backend services and infrastructure supporting all business features, including Payments, Ledger, Identity, and Settlement, providing the foundation for all of Flex’s products. ## What You’ll Do Technical Leadership - Define and execute the consumer architecture supporting New Verticals’ expansion into essential spend. - Partner with engineering leaders across Flex to align technical decisions, reuse shared capabilities, and build systems that scale across business divisions. - Guide design reviews and make high-impact technical decisions, balancing speed of experimentation with long-term maintainability. - Ensure reliability, data integrity, and financial correctness across consumer workflows. Execution & Delivery - Partner with Product and business leadership to shape initiatives and connect engineering investments to customer value and business outcomes. - Lead large, ambiguous projects from early exploration through launch and scale. - Coordinate cross-team dependencies and resolve blockers regardless of team. - Establish feedback loops that help the team learn from customer behavior, iterate quickly, and scale successful products. People Leadership - Manage, mentor, and grow a team of engineers. - Establish strong ownership of customer outcomes, engineering quality, and operational excellence. - Hire and develop senior engineers and future technical lead - Elevate testing discipline and design rigor while helping the team navigate the uncertainty of building a new business line. Operational Ownership - Own the production health and reliability of the team’s consumer services. - Improve observability, scalability, and incident response a - Partner with Risk, Compliance, and platform teams to build safeguards into customer-facing financial workflows. - Ensure new capabilities launch with clear operational ownership, monitoring, and support readiness. ## Who You Are Beyond the qualifications below, you are a generalist, enabler, and problem solver who leads through engineering management. High ownership and drive are your default. When a problem falls between teams or disciplines, you help find a path forward. You pair strong customer empathy with deep technical knowledge. You translate business strategy into execution and contribute meaningfully in design reviews. You develop excellent engineers and build strong teams, but don’t shy away from opening a PR yourself. - 8+ years of software engineering experience spanning frontend and backend systems, and 3+ years managing engineers. - Experience building and scaling consumer-facing products and the APIs and backend systems that power them. - Strong product judgment and a track record of partnering with business and product leaders to delivery . - Experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from early definition through launch and iteration. - Strong understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, reliability, and data integrity. - Experience owning production services with high standards for uptime, correctness, and operational readiness. - A track record of growing engineers, developing technical l with strong ownership and accountability. - Ability to influence technical direction across teams and balance the needs of a new business line with shared company-wide capabilities. ## Preferred - Experience building or operating consumer fintech, payments, banking, or lending products. - Experience launching a new product or business line from early experimentation through adoption and scale. - Familiarity with customer onboarding, bill management, payment workflows, or other consumer financial experiences. - Experience using product analytics and experimentation to i, engagement, or retention. - Experience partnering with Risk and Compliance teams in a regulated environment. - Background scaling high-growth consumer platforms. ## Compensation Flex takes a market-based approach to pay, and compensation may vary depending on your primary work location. Work locations are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be commensurate with their experience, qualifications, and Flex’s internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks. Tier 1 (NYC/Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle) $240,000—$300,000 USD Tier 2 (Austin, Washington D.C. Philadelphia, San Diego, Chicago, Atlanta) $216,000—$270,000 USD Tier 3 (Salt Lake City, all other USA cities) $200,000—$255,000 USD Life at Flex Building a successful company takes a diverse team of intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self-aware people. Our headquarters is in New York City, with employees across the US, Australia, Canada, and South America. We’re growing quickly and deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. We value the perspectives our people bring and take pride in being an equal opportunity workplace. Offices Roles posted in New York, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City are hybrid positions with on-site expectations of 2-3 days per week in our local offices. For candidates outside of these areas, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program. ## Benefits View our benefits and more at [getflex.com/careers](https://getflex.com/company/careers). ## About Flex ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Flex is a global advanced manufacturing partner that helps customers design and build products through technology innovation, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. - **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: FLEX) - **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA - **Founded**: 1969 (as Flextronics) - **Founders**: Joe McKenzie (original founder of Flextronics) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Electronics manufacturing services (EMS), contract manufacturing, supply chain solutions, design and engineering services - Target customers: B2B, Enterprise — serving a diverse customer base across automotive, data center, healthcare, industrial, consumer devices, and communications end markets - Mission or purpose statement: "We help a diverse customer base design and build products that improve the world." ## Products & Services - **Design & Engineering**: Concept-to-launch product design, industrial design, mechanical and electrical engineering, and prototyping services. - **Manufacturing**: High-volume and low-volume manufacturing across ~100 sites in ~30 countries, including advanced automation and robotics. - **Supply Chain Solutions**: End-to-end supply chain management, procurement, logistics, and inventory optimization. - **Aftermarket Services**: Repair, refurbishment, reverse logistics, and lifecycle management for customers' products. - **Data Center Solutions**: Powering data center infrastructure (especially from Mexico operations, per recent focus). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed in search results (market cap fluctuates — check real-time; ~$10-15B range as of recent years) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue — Flex reported approximately $26 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2024 (source: Flex.com investor relations) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Publicly traded; major institutional investors include Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street. Key customers include many of the world's leading brands across automotive, tech, and healthcare. - **Growth Signals**: - ~150,000 employees globally across ~100 sites in ~30 countries - Named one of the 2026 World's Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere (4th consecutive year) - Named to TIME's World's Best Companies (2023–2025, 3rd consecutive year) - Named to Forbes' America's Best Companies (2026) - Named to Forbes' Most Trusted Companies in America (2026) - Recognized with two 2025 OnCon Icon Awards for excellence in L&D and Talent Acquisition ## Competitive Advantages - **Global Scale & Footprint**: ~100 manufacturing sites in ~30 countries provide unmatched geographic reach and supply chain resilience. - **End-to-End Capabilities**: From design engineering through manufacturing to aftermarket services, covering the entire product lifecycle. - **Deep Customer Relationships**: Works with world-renowned brands across diverse industries, creating high switching costs. - **Sustainability & Ethics Focus**: 4-time World's Most Ethical Companies recognition signals strong governance and ESG commitment. - **Talent Development Infrastructure**: Proprietary programs like Mechanicals University, Master's Degree Program (with Mexican universities), and global CAP Quality certification set them apart in workforce development. ## Strategic Focus - **Data Center & AI Infrastructure**: Expanding capabilities in powering data center infrastructure, particularly from Mexico operations. - **Sustainability & Responsible Operations**: Embedding ESG into core operations and supply chain. - **Talent Development & Internal Mobility**: Investing heavily in upskilling, formal training, and career acceleration programs to build a versatile workforce. - **New Verticals Growth**: Actively hiring for strategic partnerships in new verticals (per greenhouse job board), indicating expansion beyond core manufacturing. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values-driven, high-performing culture focused on "learn-and-adapt" mentality, continuous improvement, respect, and open communication. Emphasizes employee safety, well-being, and inclusiveness. - **Work Environment**: Global opportunities across ~30 countries. Roles span engineering, manufacturing, corporate finance, business development, and more. - **Early Career Programs**: Structured internships, apprenticeships (multi-year paid programs in EMEA), and co-op opportunities in engineering, business analysis, IT, mechanical engineering, and more. - **Learning & Development**: Formal training, on-the-job experience, upskilling programs including Mechanicals University, Master's Degree Program (Mexico), and global CAP Quality certification. Recognized with OnCon Icon Awards for L&D. - **Benefits**: Competitive salary and benefits, paid time off, internal mobility opportunities, mental health and wellness resources, volunteer and community engagement programs (via Flex Foundation). Packages vary by country. - **Recognition**: Named World's Most Ethical Companies, TIME World's Best Companies, Forbes' America's Best Companies, and Forbes' Most Trusted Companies — strong external validation of workplace quality. - **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Mix of on-site manufacturing roles and corporate/office roles (e.g., New York, San Francisco, Austin, Salt Lake City). Policy varies by role and location. ## Sources 1. [Flex.com Careers Page](https://flex.com/careers) 2. [Flex.com Homepage](https://flex.com/) 3. [Flex.com About Page](https://flex.com/company) 4. [Flex Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flex) 5. 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