Staff Backend Engineer (Scala): Scalable API Platform Lead

Gen Digital Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Gen Digital Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer (Scala) to design and deliver large-scale backend systems, partnering with product and data teams to build scalable APIs and data-driven services.

You will mentor engineers, refine architecture, review code, and shape an internal platform that accelerates delivery across the organization, while maintaining performance and reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale backend software systems creating new partner-facing and internal data-driven APIs.
• Review code with an emphasis on readability and maintainability
• Write API and technical documentation for services and new architecture.
• Optimize database schemas to support scalable, high-performance backend services.
• Contribute to RFC process by writing technical proposals and providing feedback to others
• Mentor and guide technical growth of engineering talent
• Be a resource for solving hard, technical problems across teams and projects
• Stay up-to-date with the state of the software industry

Skills

Scala

JVM

RESTful API design

Kafka

PostgreSQL

AWS

Datadog

Design patterns

Functional programming

Mentorship

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Lightbend Slick

Play/Play JSON

Job description

Gen Digital Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer (Scala) to design and deliver large-scale backend systems, partnering with product and data teams to build scalable APIs and data-driven services.

You will mentor engineers, refine architecture, review code, and shape an internal platform that accelerates delivery across the organization, while maintaining performance and reliability at scale.