Staff Backend Engineer, MoneyLion

• 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
• We value growth-minded and collaborative people with high learning agility who embody our core values of teamwork, customer-first and innovation

Desirable

• As a Staff Engineer in this role, you’ll drive the technical design and delivery of complex software solutions that impact the entire organization
• By defining and building an internal software platform, you’ll empower teams to deliver predictable, high-quality features at scale
• Collaborating with stakeholders and partners, you’ll refine architectural constraints and requirements, ensuring alignment with both immediate needs and long-term goals
• Your expertise will guide the organization’s architectural strategy, and your influence will extend through design and code reviews, technical mentorship, and fostering a culture of excellence in hiring and innovation
• 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