Lead Software Engineer

Gen Digital is building a Financial Wellness platform that powers Norton Money, Norton 360 and LifeLock, spanning bank-linking, transactions and insights, credit, identity protection and a digital marketplace for financial products.

We’re looking for a Lead Backend Software Engineer to lead the backend architecture for the Gen Financial Wellness platform.

You’ll own critical services end-to-end, set technical direction, and work across teams to deliver secure, reliable and compliant financial experiences at scale.

- 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, 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 Gen product portfolio.

- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews and help shape the long-term technical roadmap for Financial Wellness backends at Gen.

- 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.