Lead Software Engineer - Financial Wellness
Gen Digital6 months ago
Prague, Czechia +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve backend services for Gen’s Financial Wellness products from design and implementation through production operations and observability.
- Design and review secure, versioned APIs and data contracts for internal, external, and provider integrations.
- Lead event-driven architectures and telemetry pipelines for offers, leads, financial events, and alerts using governed schemas.
- Drive reliability and performance through SLOs, capacity planning, multi-AZ resilience, performance and endurance testing, and incident response.
- Partner with Security, Privacy, and Legal to address PII, credit-reporting, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
- Own product-domain architecture, influence cross-team technical decisions, mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and shape the long-term backend roadmap.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating Java backend services in production at scale using Spring Boot or similar.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native AWS architectures, including ECS/EKS or Fargate, RDS/Aurora, VPC, load balancers, WAF, S3, and Secrets Manager.
- Strong relational database knowledge, including PostgreSQL or equivalent, plus experience with at least one NoSQL store such as DynamoDB or DocumentDB, including schema design and migrations.
- Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming and messaging systems and event-driven system design.
- Track record of owning architecture for a product or domain, influencing cross-team decisions, and working with senior stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of secure software design, including authentication and authorization, least privilege, PII handling, auditing, and security/compliance reviews.
- Background in financial services, financial wellness, embedded finance, banking, credit products, identity, privacy-focused platforms, serverless systems, or AI platform integrations is preferred.
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, or Sumo Logic and with defining SLOs and alerts is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible working options, time off, competitive benefits, and well-being programs are offered.
- The role includes opportunities for career growth, experimentation, continuous learning, and collaboration with diverse teams.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSDatadogGoogle BigQueryJavaKotlinNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonRedisSpring BootSumo LogicTerraform
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About Gen Digital
Gen Digital is a public consumer cyber safety company that sells subscription software and services for cybersecurity, online privacy, and identity protection under brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, CCleaner, and ReputationDefender. Formed in 2022 by the merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, it is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and serves more than 150 countries with a user base approaching 500 million. Revenue comes primarily from direct-to-consumer subscriptions and partnerships.