Senior Backend Engineer - (Java/Spring Boot)

Gen Digital Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Job summary

Gen Digital Inc. is seeking a deeply experienced backend engineer to own the architecture and delivery of scalable services behind MoneyLion's product surfaces. You will partner with product, analytics, and engineering to enable reliable partner integrations, experimentation, and core business workflows.

You will design resilient services, improve observability, and drive high-quality engineering decisions, leveraging AI-assisted tooling for prototyping and refactoring under strong governance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, with a track record of production applications.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience building and operating production-grade services.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs, service contracts, and backward compatibility.
• Experience with distributed systems and inter-service communication.
• Data modeling with SQL/NoSQL and performance considerations.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS).
• Observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and modern development workflows (CI/CD).
• Excellent collaboration with Product, Analytics, and Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Take Ownership: maintain high quality through design reviews, code reviews, testing, and production readiness.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, analytics, and engineers to shape solutions.
• Architect for change by building scalable, modular microservices.
• Improve performance and quality across critical services and workflows.
• Build clean data flows with APIs, events, and service boundaries for partners.
• Lead AI-assisted development and validate outcomes with strong engineering judgment.
• Raise quality through automated testing across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

SQL

NoSQL

Kafka

SQS

AWS

Kubernetes

Observability

CI/CD

Testing

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Kafka

SQS

AWS

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

About Gen:

Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more. Our combined heritage is rooted in financial empowerment and cyber safety for the first digital generations, and today we deliver award-winning cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.

Together, we share a collective passion and vision to protect consumers and help them grow, manage and secure their digital and financial lives. We're always looking for smart, fearless and high-impact talent who see AI as a teammate - leveraging it to move faster and deliver meaningful results.

When you're part of Gen, you'll have the flexibility, tools and support to do your best work and grow your career - from flexible working options and time off to competitive pay, benefits and well-being programs.

At Gen, we are scrappy and relentlessly customer driven. We create room for healthy debate, experimentation, and continuous learning, and we seek out people with different experiences, identities and ideas to join our team. You'll work with people who back each other, respect each other and understand that our differences are a competitive advantage.

If this sounds like you, we'd love you to be part of Gen.

About the Role:

MoneyLion is a leader in financial technology powering the next generation of personalized products and content. We pride ourselves on serving the many, not the few, providing confidence through guidance, choice, and personalization.

We're looking for a deeply experienced backend engineer who brings strong ownership, sound technical judgment, and a high bar for engineering quality. This role is about making smart architectural decisions, designing resilient services, and building the systems that power reliable customer and marketplace experiences.

You will help shape and scale the backend capabilities behind MoneyLion's product surfaces, working closely with product, analytics, and engineering teams to support partner integrations, experimentation, event quality, and core business workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take Ownership: You'll help maintain a high bar for quality through design reviews, code reviews, testing, observability, and production readiness.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with product, analytics, and fellow engineers to shape solutions and deliver reliably.
• Architect for change: Design and build backend systems that are scalable, modular, and resilient to evolving product and business needs.
• Improve Performance & Quality: Strengthen reliability, maintainability, observability, and operational excellence across critical services and workflows.
• Build clean data flows: Create dependable APIs, events, and service boundaries that support partner integrations, experimentation, analytics, and downstream systems.
• Lead AI-assisted development: Use AI tools for prototyping, scaffolding, refactoring, and exploratory development, then validate the output with strong engineering judgment.
• Raise quality through testing: Build and maintain automated test coverage across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end layers.

About You:

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and modern backend architecture.
• Comfortable designing and operating RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems in production.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with asynchronous and event-driven systems such as Kafka, SQS, or similar technologies.
• Comfortable working in modern development environments, including Git-based workflows, containerized services, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes).
• Strong grasp of reliability, observability, maintainability, and performance.
• Familiarity with testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and modern development workflows.
• Skilled at partnering with Product, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, problem-solving mindset.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience: 5+ years in software engineering, with a track record of building and shipping production applications.

Must Have Skills:

• Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot, including building and operating production-grade services.
• Strong understanding of REST API design, service contracts, and backward compatibility.
• Experience designing and evolving distributed systems, including service decomposition and inter-service communication.
• Solid grasp of data modeling and persistence, including SQL and NoSQL tradeoffs, indexing, and query performance.
• Experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, SQS), including event design and reliability considerations.
• Strong understanding of observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, and debugging productio