Senior Backend Engineer - MoneyLion

Skills

About the Role

You will bring strong ownership, sound technical judgment, and a high bar for engineering quality to this role. You'll make smart architectural decisions, design resilient services, and build the systems that power reliable customer and marketplace experiences. You'll work closely with product, analytics, and engineering teams to support partner integrations, experimentation, event quality, and core business workflows.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and modern backend architecture
• Comfortable designing and operating RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems in production
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with asynchronous and event-driven systems such as Kafka, SQS, or similar technologies
• Comfortable working in modern development environments, including Git-based workflows, containerized services, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes)
• Strong grasp of reliability, observability, maintainability, and performance
• Familiarity with testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and modern development workflows
• Skilled at partnering with Product, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, problem-solving mindset
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years in software engineering, with a track record of building and shipping production applications

Responsibilities

• Maintain a high bar for quality through design reviews, code reviews, testing, observability, and production readiness
• Partner with product, analytics, and fellow engineers to shape solutions and deliver reliably
• Design and build backend systems that are scalable, modular, and resilient to evolving product and business needs
• Strengthen reliability, maintainability, observability, and operational excellence across critical services and workflows
• Create dependable APIs, events, and service boundaries that support partner integrations, experimentation, analytics, and downstream systems
• Use AI tools for prototyping, scaffolding, refactoring, and exploratory development, then validate the output with strong engineering judgment
• Build and maintain automated test coverage across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end layers

Benefits

• 401(k) match
• health insurance options
• disability coverage
• life insurance
• unlimited paid time off