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About the Role

The Kuala Lumpur office is the technology powerhouse of MoneyLion. We pride ourselves on innovative initiatives and thrive in a fast-paced and challenging environment. Join our multicultural team of visionaries and industry rebels in disrupting the traditional finance industry!

We are searching for a talented and motivated Staff Engineer with a knack for driving backend initiatives and cultures, overseeing and contributing to backend architectures for our cutting-edge Fintech products, and incubating potential new business ideas. Our dream candidate is someone who lives and breathes innovation, with a proven track record of building scalable and reliable backend systems, and experience leading and mentoring teams of engineers. As the go-to person for this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing new backend systems and architectures while ensuring our products are top-notch in terms of evolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive backend initiatives and lead the development of backend systems from evolving existing products to incubating new business ideas with proper justification on architecture goals and trade-offs.
• Design, review, implement, and maintain highly evolutionary backend architectures that support guided, incremental, and non-breaking change along multiple dimensions.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the smooth integration of backend systems with other products within the MoneyLion ecosystem.
• Collaborate with product owners, product managers, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define and prioritize product features and technical requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers on the team.
• Continuously evaluate and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of the backend systems.
• Be the key player in cultivating a dynamic engineering culture and instilling the architecture mindset within our team
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in backend development and contribute to the technical growth of the team.

About You

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• A minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience in product development is required, with a preference for experience gained in an R&D setting.
• Experience with designing, reviewing and implementing highly performant and evolutionary backend architectures, a strong understanding of architecture trade-off decisions.
• Strong understanding of software design approaches, such as domain-driven design (DDD) and event-driven design (EDD).
• Strong experience with modern tech stacks, such as Microservices, Messaging, containerization and container orchestration frameworks, CI/CD and so on.
• Experience with both NoSQL and SQL databases, as well as database design and optimization.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading and mentoring teams of engineers.
• Passion for staying up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in backend development.

What's Next…

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

• Interview - Talent Acquisition Team (Virtual or face-to-face)
• Interview - Interview by the SVP Engineering (face-to-face)
• Interview - Interview with Technical Panel (face-to-face)
• Interview - Final Interview by the Bar Raiser (face-to-face)