Senior Backend Engineer — Java/Spring, AI-Driven, Hybrid NY

Gen Digital Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 168,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Gen is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Spring) for Engine by Gen in New York, NY. This role focuses on building robust backend services behind a financial products marketplace, leveraging AI-assisted development while maintaining strong API design and reliability.

You will own quality, architect scalable systems, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver high-impact features in an onsite, multi-day-per-week cadence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years shipping production software.
• Strong REST API design with versioning and backward compatibility.
• Experience designing and evolving distributed systems.
• Solid data modeling across SQL and NoSQL.
• Experience with event-driven architecture (Kafka, SQS).
• Observability: logging, metrics, tracing, debugging in prod.
• CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS experience.
• Articulate complex technical tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own quality — design reviews, code review, test strategy, and production readiness.
• Architect for change — design backend systems that are small, composable, and resilient.
• Design clean contracts — REST APIs, events, and service boundaries for integrations.
• Strengthen the system — improve performance, reliability, and observability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally — work with product, data, and engineers.
• Lead AI-assisted development — use AI agents for prototyping, scaffolding, and refactoring, then harden with tests.
• Raise quality through testing — unit, integration, and end-to-end with fast CI feedback.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

5+ years

REST API design

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Observability

CI/CD

AI-assisted development

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

PostgreSQL

DataDog

Cursor/Claude Code

Job description

Gen is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Spring) for Engine by Gen in New York, NY. This role focuses on building robust backend services behind a financial products marketplace, leveraging AI-assisted development while maintaining strong API design and reliability.

You will own quality, architect scalable systems, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver high-impact features in an onsite, multi-day-per-week cadence.