Gen Digital

Lead Software Engineer - Financial Wellness

CZE - Prague, Remote. Posted 6 months ago

The role

You will lead the backend architecture for the Gen Financial Wellness platform. You will own backend services from design to operations and set technical direction for secure financial experiences.

What you will do

  • Own and evolve backend services for Financial Wellness from design and implementation to operations and observability.
  • Design and review REST APIs and data contracts.
  • Champion event-driven architectures and telemetry pipelines.
  • Drive reliability and performance through SLOs, capacity planning, and incident response.
  • Partner with Security, Privacy and Legal to ensure designs meet regulatory requirements.
  • Mentor engineers and lead design reviews.
  • Help shape the long-term technical roadmap for Financial Wellness backends.

Required qualifications

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Flexible working options
  • Time off
  • Competitive pay
  • Benefits
  • Well-being programs

Before you apply

  • The interview process consists of two stages and combines both technical and managerial interviews.

About the company

Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more. They deliver cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to nearly 500 million users.