Lead Software Engineer - Financial Wellness

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own and evolve backend services for Financial Wellness (Norton Money, Norton 360, Norton Genie and LifeLock) from design and implementation to operations and observability (Java/Spring Boot on AWS, Postgres, Kafka)
• ▹Design and review REST APIs and data contracts between internal and external services and providers, keeping them secure, versioned and easy to integrate
• ▹Champion event-driven architectures and telemetry pipelines for offers, leads, financial events and alerts, using Kafka and well-governed schemas
• ▹Drive reliability and performance: SLOs, capacity planning, multi-AZ resilience, performance and endurance testing, and incident response for your services
• ▹Partner with Security, Privacy and Legal to ensure backend designs meet PII, credit-reporting and regulatory requirements across the Gen product portfolio
• ▹Mentor engineers, lead design reviews and help shape the long-term technical roadmap for Financial Wellness backends

Requirements

• ▹Strong experience building backend services in Java (Spring Boot or similar) and operating them in production at scale
• ▹Hands-on expertise with cloud-native architectures on AWS (ECS/EKS or Fargate, RDS/Aurora, VPC, load balancers, WAF, S3, Secrets Manager)
• ▹Solid knowledge of relational databases (Postgres or equivalent) and at least one NoSQL store (e.g. DynamoDB, DocumentDB), including schema design and migrations
• ▹Experience with event streaming/messaging (Kafka or similar) and event-driven system design
• ▹A track record of owning architecture for a product/domain, influencing cross-team decisions and working directly with senior stakeholders
• ▹Strong understanding of secure software design (authN/authZ, least privilege, PII handling, auditing) and comfort working with security/compliance reviews

Nice to have

• ▹Background in financial services, financial wellness, embedded finance, banking or credit products, or identity-/privacy-focused platforms
• ▹Experience with serverless (API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Redis) and/or integrating with AI platforms (e.g. Bedrock, Strands agents, AgentCore, tool-calling) in data-heavy products
• ▹Familiarity with observability stacks such as Datadog, Dynatrace or Sumo Logic, and defining SLOs and alerts

Soft skills

About the company

Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock and MoneyLion. It delivers cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.