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MoneyLion

Staff Engineer

New York, NY
MoneyLion is looking for a Staff Engineer to join our New York City engineering team to help build the future of financial technology. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will guide the evolution of MoneyLion's technical architecture across our different offerings and help expand our technical capabilities to support our rapidly growing business. You will be instrumental in the architecture and implementation of a robust, scalable backend system responsible for handling millions of dollars’ worth of financial transactions.

MoneyLion is America's most powerful financial membership, which empowers people to take control of their finances. Since its launch in 2013, MoneyLion has amassed more than five million members and has earned its customers' trust with new mobile online banking and managed investment services that offer a one-of-a-kind cashback rewards program, no-fee checking account, overdraft protection, and loans funded in 15 seconds. From a single mobile app, users can get a 360-degree snapshot of their financial lives and have access to personalized tips and tools to build and improve their credit and achieve everyday savings.

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MoneyLion's success relies on finding ways to make its members' money work as hard as they do. MoneyLion is headquartered in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Who You Are

  • You have expertise with Java and the Spring ecosystem or Golang
  • You have strong experience with microservice patterns like CQRS, Hexagonal Architecture, Transactional outbox, etc
  • You are intimately familiar with MongoDB, Kafka, and Postgres
  • Some experience in or exposure to web frontend technologies such as React, AngularJS, or VueJS
  • You are proficient with Kubernetes and AWS
  • You adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic work environment. This includes working independently and on a team
  • You love mentoring other engineers
  • Intellectually curious, passionate, and inventive
  • You seek simple approaches to complex solutions
  • You write simple, elegant, well-structured and well tested code that drives new features and improvements
  • You may have some domain knowledge related to Fintech

What You Will Do At MoneyLion

  • Build foundational systems at scale and spearheading software projects that significantly advanced the goals of our organization
  • Be a final point of escalation for Engineering including architecture and systems design
  • Ensure that the architecture and implementation scales to support a rapidly growing company
  • Interface and collaborate with product teams
  • Shorten the product to market time across MoneyLion’s portfolio
  • Evolve our systems by tackling architecture, code reviews, and design doc (RFCs)
  • Mentor other engineers across multiple pods
  • Deliver high-quality code that impacts the bottom line of the business
  • Assist with design, coding patterns, tools, frameworks, and methods to help in effectively meeting cross-team and quarterly objectives

What We Offer

  • We are a high-growth FinTech company solving real-world problems for many Americans
  • Hackathons for all employees
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Professional development benefit for attending conferences, industry events, and external courses
  • Work/life autonomy via flexible work from home days
  • You'll work with other strong engineers who enjoy collaborating
  • Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance


Job ID: f46f5216-51ce-4e83-ba31-df88f9e58139
Employment Type: Other