Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join MoneyLion, a leader in financial technology, as a Staff Engineer on the EWS team. You will play a crucial role in designing and implementing large-scale backend software systems, creating new partner-facing and internal data-driven APIs. This involves collaborating with stakeholders, refining architectural requirements, and mentoring engineering talent. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in software engineering, particularly with Java/Spring Boot, and expertise in scalable architectures. MoneyLion offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including comprehensive insurance, wellness perks, paid parental leave, and flexible working hours.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• 2+ years of proven success in senior engineering roles
• Demonstrated success collaborating across engineering, product, and business functions to deliver functionality
• Meticulous attention to detail in reviewing others' and your own work
• Experience developing and testing in Java/Spring Boot
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, functional programming, and database schema design
• Experience designing highly scalable event streaming architecture using Kafka/MSK or equivalent
• Experience with service-oriented architecture and RESTful API design
• Expertise in PostgreSQL
• Expertise in AWS product and tools
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools, including Datadog or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale backend software systems creating new partner-facing and internal data-driven APIs
• Review code with an emphasis on readability and maintainability
• Write API and technical documentation for services and new architecture
• Optimize database schemas to support scalable, high-performance backend services
• Contribute to our RFC process by writing technical proposals and providing feedback to others
• Mentor and guide technical growth of engineering talent
• Be a resource for solving hard, technical problems across teams and projects
• Stay up-to-date with the state of the software industry

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in customer-facing roles
• Familiar with modern DevOps tooling
• Kubernetes/Docker
• Terraform
• Familiar with Scala and the Lightbend and Typelevel ecosystems
• Lightbend: Slick, Play/Play JSON
• Typelevel: http4s, doobie/skunk, circe, cats, cats-effect
• Debezium

Benefits

• Competitive salary packages
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits
• Wellness perks
• Paid parental leave
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Learning and Development resources
• Flexible working hours