Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join MoneyLion, a leading financial technology company, as a Staff Engineer on the Backend Core Enterprise 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. You will leverage your expertise in Scala or other JVM languages, database schema design, and scalable event streaming architecture to build high-impact distributed systems. The role requires significant experience in software engineering and a proven track record of success in senior engineering roles. MoneyLion offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

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 Scala or other JVM languages
• 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