Lead Engineer (Backend) - MoneyLion
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Gen Digital is hiring a Lead Engineer (Backend) - MoneyLion. This is a full-time remote role, with the team based in MYS - Kuala Lumpur. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.
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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 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.
About the Role
The Kuala Lumpur hub stands as the technological epicenter for MoneyLion, where innovation meets velocity in the pursuit of disrupting traditional finance. We’re looking for an experienced lead engineer who is passionate about building software. Join our cutting edge engineering team to revolutionize the Fintech industry. You will design, implementation, testing, and deployment of Microservices and RESTful APIs that empower consumer financial products across desktop and mobile. Join us in this journey to empower consumer finance through cutting-edge technology and innovation.
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.
- Architecting and implementing cutting edge technology.
- Working with industry standards of CICD best practices at enterprise level.
- Leading & building a high performing team in delivering value
About You
- Proven competency delivering enterprise solutions in one or more of the following domains: backend development, mobile development, quality assurance, or SRE.
- Proven competency in industry best practices for Engineering excellence, driving cross-functional architectural discussion (RFC) and coaching mid/senior engineers.
- A passion to learn from, to teach & to elevate the people around you.
- Ability to comprehend deep business domains and design solutions to address the gaps.
- Experienced in leading Agile teams to ship complex solutions using Scrum framework.
- Ability to balance between technical deliverables and necessary stakeholders coordination.
- You have a Diploma / Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- At least 8+ years of experience developing, maintaining, monitoring and supporting software for high concurrency production environment.
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
- TA Call
- Whiteboarding Session
- Final Interview - Hiring Manager
- Bar-raiser Interview (Conditional)
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Gen is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re committed to fair, inclusive practices at every stage of the candidate and employee journey. Employment decisions are based on merit, experience and business needs.
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Is the Lead Engineer (Backend) - MoneyLion role at Gen Digital remote?
Yes. This is a remote role. The team is based in MYS - Kuala Lumpur, but the position itself does not require relocating to that office.
What does a Lead Engineer (Backend) - MoneyLion at Gen Digital earn?
Gen Digital has not disclosed a salary range in this posting. Many employers share specifics later in the interview process; you can also ask during a recruiter screen if compensation transparency is important to you.
When was the Lead Engineer (Backend) - MoneyLion role at Gen Digital posted?
This role was posted on April 15, 2026 (85 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.
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