Senior Backend Engineer - MoneyLion
Gen Digital6 months ago
Base Salary
$158k - $179k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, modular, and resilient backend systems for evolving product and business needs.
- Maintain engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, testing, observability, and production readiness.
- Develop dependable APIs, events, and service boundaries for partner integrations, experimentation, analytics, and downstream systems.
- Improve reliability, maintainability, performance, observability, and operational excellence across critical services.
- Collaborate with product, analytics, and engineering teams to shape solutions and deliver production systems.
- Build and maintain unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end automated test coverage.
- Use AI tools for prototyping, scaffolding, refactoring, and exploratory development while validating results with engineering judgment.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.
- Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot, including production-grade service development and operation.
- Strong knowledge of REST API design, service contracts, backward compatibility, distributed systems, service decomposition, and inter-service communication.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL data modeling, indexing, persistence, and query performance.
- Experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures such as Kafka and SQS.
- Understanding of observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, and production debugging.
- Experience with unit, integration, and contract testing strategies.
- Familiarity with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Preferred experience with high-scale consumer systems, marketplace platforms, API gateways, rate limiting, service-level protections, data pipelines, event quality, and analytics instrumentation.
- Preferred hands-on experience with Claude Code or similar AI-powered IDEs and modern AI coding models.
- Strong collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and technical decision-making skills.
Benefits
- Onsite in New York, NY three days per week.
- 401(k) match, health insurance options, disability coverage, life insurance, and unlimited paid time off.
- Flexible working options, time off, and well-being programs.
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About Gen Digital
Gen Digital is a public consumer cyber safety company that sells subscription software and services for cybersecurity, online privacy, and identity protection under brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, CCleaner, and ReputationDefender. Formed in 2022 by the merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, it is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and serves more than 150 countries with a user base approaching 500 million. Revenue comes primarily from direct-to-consumer subscriptions and partnerships.