Backend Engineer II - MoneyLion

About Gen

Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more. Our combined heritage is rooted in financial empowerment and cyber safety for the first digital generations, and today we deliver award-winning cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.
Together, we share a collective passion and vision to protect consumers and help them grow, manage and secure their digital and financial lives. We’re always looking for smart, fearless and high-impact talent who see AI as a teammate – leveraging it to move faster and deliver meaningful results.
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.
At Gen, we are scrappy and relentlessly customer driven. 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. You’ll work with people who back each other, respect each other and understand that our differences are a competitive advantage.
If this sounds like you, we’d love you to be part of Gen.

About the Role

The Kuala Lumpur office serves as the beating heart of innovation for MoneyLion, where creativity and speed converge to challenge the status quo of finance. Our environment celebrates diversity and the spirit of rebellion against traditional financial norms. We're on the lookout for enthusiastic junior to mid-level engineers ready to embark on a transformative journey in fintech. As part of our dynamic engineering team, you'll contribute to the development and refinement of microservices and RESTful APIs. These are the core components that enable our consumer financial products to excel across various platforms. Dive into a role where your work directly impacts the evolution of fintech, blending your passion for software building with our mission to revolutionize financial services.

About MoneyLion

MoneyLion is a leader in financial technology powering the next generation of personalized products and content, with a top consumer finance super app, a premier embedded finance platform for enterprise businesses and a world-class media arm. MoneyLion’s mission is to give everyone the power to make their best financial decisions. We pride ourselves on serving the many, not the few; providing confidence through guidance, choice, personalization; and shortening the distance to an informed action.

In our go-to money app for consumers, we deliver curated content on finance and related topics, through a tailored feed that engages people to learn and share. People take control of their finances with our innovative financial products and marketplace - including our full-fledged suite of features to save, borrow, spend, and invest - seamlessly bringing together the best offers and content from MoneyLion and our 1,100+ Enterprise Partner network, together in one experience. MoneyLion’s enterprise technology provides the definitive search engine and marketplace for financial products, enabling any company to add embedded finance to their business, with advanced AI-backed data and tools through our platform and API. Established in 2013, MoneyLion connects millions of people with the financial products and content they need, when and where they need it.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing innovative features in the Fintech industry.
• Participating in architecting and implementing event-driven architecture.
• Working with industry standards of CI/CD best practices at enterprise level.

About You:

• Experienced in Java, or any other OOP languages such as C#.NET, Javascript, or PHP.
• Experienced in any relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MSSQL.
• Experienced non-relational databases such as MongoDB, DocumentDB, or CosmosDB.
• Experienced in web APIs of reasonable complexity.
• Familiar with containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• You have a Diploma / Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• At least 2+ years of experience building and developing software would be preferred. This is considered a mid-level role.

Technology stack we use: 

Java, Spring Boot, Nodejs, ES6, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.

(Don’t worry if you don’t know all of them right now, because you don’t have to)

What's Next...

After you submit your application, you can expect the following steps in the recruitment process:

• Technical Assessment
• TA Call
• Live Coding
• Interview - Hiring Manager
   

*If you’ve already sent in your application for this position and were not selected, please re-apply after 6 months.*

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We consider individuals with arrest and conviction records and do not discriminate against employees for discussing their own pay or that of other employees or applicants. Learn more about pay transparency. 

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