Senior Software Engineer (Scala)

Engine by MoneyLion 

Engine by MoneyLion partners with leading Financial Institutions to surface the richest, most comprehensive set of personalized financial product offers to the consumer. We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to support our world-class financial products marketplace. 

You will own technical design and delivery of major features and architecture projects. You will contribute to shared code and services that enable predictable, highly available, scalable feature development. You will participate in technical design and code review to improve our products and process. You will work closely with the team and product leads to refine requirements, ensure code is delivered on time and to spec and support deployed features. 

Day-to-day: 

• Design and implement major features supporting our many product verticals. 

• Ensure code quality through code reviews, unit testing, and continuous integration. 

• Contribute to our RFC process by writing technical proposals and providing feedback to others 

• Work collaboratively with the team to troubleshoot and resolve issues. 

• 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 

Qualifications: 

• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in software engineering 

• 1+ 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 language 

• Solid understanding of software design patterns, functional programming and database schema design 

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and RESTful API design 

• Experience with PostgreSQL 

• Experience with AWS product and tools 

• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools, including Datadog or equivalent 

• Knowledge of event-streaming tools, including Kafka or equivalent 

Good to have, not required: 

• Experience in customer-facing roles 

• Familiar with the Lightbend and Typelevel ecosystems 

• Lightbend: Slick, Play/Play JSON 

• Typelevel: http4s, doobie/skunk, circe, cats, cats-effect 

• Debezium 

• Kubernetes/Docker 

• Terraform 

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