[Hiring] Software Engineer - Reliability @Flinks

Flinks; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial innovation is seeking a remote Software Engineer - Reliability to drive improvements in their distributed systems. This role involves developing solutions, collaborating across teams, and tackling complex technical challenges. Ideal candidates will have a strong programming background, particularly in Golang, and a hacker mindset for innovative problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Golang and experience in distributed systems.
• Proven autonomy at troubleshooting and debugging.
• Natural curiosity and a hacker mindset.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain tools for data access and retrieval.
• Collaborate on remediation tools and improve services.
• Investigate performance and complex system issues.

Skills

Troubleshooting networking stacks

Debugging

Reverse-engineering JavaScript defenses

Performance tuning

Hacker mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

Golang

C#

Job description

Jun 09, 2025 - Flinks is hiring a remote Software Engineer - Reliability. Location: Canada.

About Flinks

Flinks drives and empowers financial innovation by pushing the limits of what's possible

As one of the trailblazers and advocates for open finance in Canada, Flinks has rapidly grown from its founding in 2016 to become a leader in financial data aggregation, data enrichment, and open banking.

Trusted by millions of individuals accessing financial services at world-class companies and serving innovators in lending, fintech, digital banking, asset management and insurance, Flinks is continually setting new benchmarks for the future of financial innovation. We’re dedicated to continuing to provide our clients with the tools they need to stay ahead of the competition and drive innovation forward. That’s where you come in.

About the Team

Our Platform & Reliability crew at Flinks brings together DevOps Engineers, SREs, and Support Engineers to create a proactive environment where incidents are resolved before customers see them and engineers spend their time building product, not fighting fires—supported by emerging AI-assisted automation that streamlines intake, triage, response, and continuous testing.

What You'll Be Doing

Research, develop and maintain tools and techniques that allow us to access and retrieve data

• Perform technical assessments and investigations that lead to the improvement of our services
• Collaborate with other teams and developers on the implementation of our remediation tools
• Work within our production systems ensuring optimal performance, availability and scalability
• Conduct technical assessments & post-mortems, driving continuous improvements across production systems
• Investigate and resolve complex memory/CPU issues—profiling, leak detection, garbage-collection tuning, performance hotspots
• Contribute to innovative projects and participate in the creation of new technologies
• Implement creative solutions to ensure continuity of our delivery
• Mentor and help other developers improve on code quality, debugging, reverse-engineering and tinkerer mindset
  

Who you are

• Strong knowledge of one modern programming language, preferably Golang (C# experience is a plus)
• Experience developing and maintaining distributed systems at scale
• Hacker mindset, finding solutions without having a clear path
• Proven autonomy at troubleshooting networking stacks
• Deep understanding of web technologies, HTTP/IP protocols, reverse-engineering JavaScript defenses and proxy rotation
• Understanding of Kubernetes
• Natural curiosity with a willingness to learn new technologies
• Knack for debugging and investigating difficult issues
• Building or mitigating anti-bot systems in production

Great to haves

• Browser extension development experience
• Hands-on experience experimenting with large language models (LLMs) and integrating generative AI into workflows

The Interview Process

• Head of HR
• Tech Challenge
• Reliability Engineer
• Director of Infrastructure