Gen Digital Inc.

Gen Digital Inc.

Senior Backend Engineer - MoneyLion

USA - New York, NY · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 84 days ago
JavaSpringDistributed SystemsCode ReviewGitSQLNoSQLAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDAPI DevelopmentRESTKafkaData EngineeringAgentic AIA/B TestingCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving

About the role

  • MoneyLion is a leader in financial technology powering the next generation of personalized products and content.
  • We pride ourselves on serving the many, not the few, providing confidence through guidance, choice, and personalization.
  • We're looking for a deeply experienced backend engineer who brings strong ownership, sound technical judgment, and a high bar for engineering quality.

Responsibilities

  • Take Ownership: You'll help maintain a high bar for quality through design reviews, code reviews, testing, observability, and production readiness.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with product, analytics, and fellow engineers to shape solutions and deliver reliably.
  • Architect for change: Design and build backend systems that are scalable, modular, and resilient to evolving product and business needs.
  • Build clean data flows: Create dependable APIs, events, and service boundaries that support partner integrations, experimentation, analytics, and downstream systems.
  • Lead AI-assisted development: Use AI tools for prototyping, scaffolding, refactoring, and exploratory development, then validate the output with strong engineering judgment.
  • Skilled at partnering with Product, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver in a fast-paced environment.
  • You'll help 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.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of REST API design, service contracts, and backward compatibility.
  • Experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, SQS), including event design and reliability considerations.
  • Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and modern backend architecture.
  • Strong working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Familiarity with asynchronous and event-driven systems such as Kafka, SQS, or similar technologies.

Nice to have

  • Ability to use AI agents to explore multiple implementation approaches, evaluate tradeoffs, and converge on robust solutions without introducing fragile or "AI-shaped" systems.
  • After you submit your application, you can expect the following steps in the recruitment process:
  • Live Coding 1 of 2
  • Live Coding 2 of 2

Skills

  • Experience with high-scale, consumer-facing systems or marketplace platforms.
  • Familiarity with API gateways, rate limiting, and service-level protections.
  • Experience with data pipelines, event quality, and analytics instrumentation.
  • Hands-on experience with tools like Claude Code (or similar AI-powered IDEs) and modern AI coding models.
  • Practical understanding of where AI is strong vs. where it falls short, paired with sound engineering judgment.
  • Experience designing and evolving distributed systems, including service decomposition and inter-service communication.
  • Solid grasp of data modeling and persistence, including SQL and NoSQL tradeoffs, indexing, and query performance.
  • Strong understanding of observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, and debugging production systems.
  • Experience implementing testing strategies across unit, integration, and contract testing layers.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes).
  • Nice to Have
  • Personal Attributes:

Compensation

  • The annual base salary for this position is expected to be between $158,080 and $178,880.

Benefits

  • Together, we share a collective passion and vision to protect consumers and help them grow, manage and secure their digital and financial lives.
  • When you're part of Gen, you'll have the flexibility, tools and support to do your best work and grow your career - from flexible working options and time off to competitive pay, benefits and well-being programs.
  • We create room for healthy debate, experimentation and continuous learning, and we seek out people with different experiences, identities and ideas to join our team.
  • Base salary is one component of Gen's total compensation package, which includes 401(k) match, health insurance options, disability coverage, life insurance, and unlimited paid time off.
  • Raise quality through testing: Build and maintain automated test coverage across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end layers.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Company info

  • At Gen, we are scrappy and relentlessly customer driven.
  • If this sounds like you, we'd love you to be part of Gen.

Equal opportunity

  • Gen is an equal opportunity employer, and we're committed to fair, inclusive practices at every stage of the candidate and employee journey.
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