Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Spring) — NYC Onsite 3x/Week

Gen Digital Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 158,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Health insurance options

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Gen Digital Inc. in New York is seeking a deeply experienced backend engineer who owns design, builds scalable services, and partners with product and analytics to support critical business workflows.

You will design APIs, microservices and data flows, collaborate across teams, and leverage AI-assisted development while maintaining strong testing, observability, and reliability standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering with production apps.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot, design of production services.
• Experience building distributed systems and service contracts.
• Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL, data modeling and indexing.
• Familiarity with Kafka, SQS, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership with design reviews, testing, observability and production readiness.
• Collaborate with product, analytics and engineers to deliver reliable solutions.
• Architect scalable, modular backend systems adaptable to changing needs.
• Improve reliability, observability, maintainability and performance.
• Build clean data flows via APIs, events and service boundaries.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Distributed systems

SQL/NoSQL

Kafka/SQS

AWS/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Cloud platforms

Job description

Gen Digital Inc. in New York is seeking a deeply experienced backend engineer who owns design, builds scalable services, and partners with product and analytics to support critical business workflows.

You will design APIs, microservices and data flows, collaborate across teams, and leverage AI-assisted development while maintaining strong testing, observability, and reliability standards.