Lead Integrations Engineer — AI-Native & Scalable

MoneyLion; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Gen is seeking an experienced senior engineer to lead its Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. You will drive high-stakes partner integrations, establish repeatable delivery standards, and govern AI-native practices while remaining hands-on with core engineering work.

You will mentor engineers, shape FDE strategy, and collaborate with partner teams, Product, Solutions Engineering, and Commercial stakeholders to accelerate marketplace value and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in integration, platform, or forward-deployed engineering.
• Experience leading teams or strong informal leadership preferred.
• Proficiency writing production-quality code in Scala and/or Python; comfortable with Node.js/TypeScript.
• Deep REST/JSON API expertise including authentication, idempotency, versioning, monitoring, and incident response.
• Experience building reusable architecture, tooling, or playbooks that scale output.

Responsibilities

• Own technical strategy for demand-side delivery across the partner portfolio.
• Develop and implement standard operating procedures and delivery practices.
• Lead the most complex, new-vertical integrations end to end.
• Turn bespoke builds into repeatable solutions with shared modules and runbooks.
• Architect and govern AI-native engineering practices and pipelines.
• Mentor engineers through design and code reviews to raise standards.
• Drive structured feedback loops between Product and Engineering.
• Lead technical working sessions with partner engineering teams.

Skills

Scala

Python

Node.js/TypeScript

REST/JSON APIs

AI-native workflows

Leadership

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

Job description

Gen is seeking an experienced senior engineer to lead its Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. You will drive high-stakes partner integrations, establish repeatable delivery standards, and govern AI-native practices while remaining hands-on with core engineering work.

You will mentor engineers, shape FDE strategy, and collaborate with partner teams, Product, Solutions Engineering, and Commercial stakeholders to accelerate marketplace value and reliability.