# Lead Software Engineer - Financial Wellness at Gen Digital

> Hybrid · Czechia · Staff · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Agen-digital%3A54cc4aba-1d15-4d76-9cff-bf97e3b9cc65 (read 2026-11-14).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Gen Digital](https://alderhq.app/companies/gen-digital)
- Location text: CZE - Prague; IND - Chennai; IRL - Dublin
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Hybrid · Czechia (evidence: "Location lists "chennai"")
- Posted: 2026-04-29 (199 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-12
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gen-digital/54cc4aba-1d15-4d76-9cff-bf97e3b9cc65
- Skills listed (inferred): Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (India, n 5): p25 ₹67L, median ₹94.2L, p75 ₹100L

## Description (the employer's text)

### About Us

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

Gen Digital is building a Financial Wellness platform that powers Norton Money, Norton 360 and LifeLock, spanning bank-linking, transactions and insights, credit, identity protection and a digital marketplace for financial products.

We’re looking for a Lead Backend Software Engineer to lead the backend architecture for the Gen Financial Wellness platform.

You’ll own critical services end-to-end, set technical direction, and work across teams to deliver secure, reliable and compliant financial experiences at scale.

In this role, you will:

Own and evolve backend services for Financial Wellness (Norton Money, Norton 360, Norton Genie and LifeLock) from design and implementation to operations and observability (Java/Spring Boot on AWS, Postgres, Kafka).

Design and review REST APIs and data contracts between internal and external services, providers, keeping them secure, versioned and easy to integrate.

Champion event-driven architectures and telemetry pipelines for offers, leads, financial events and alerts, using Kafka and well-governed schemas.

Drive reliability and performance: SLOs, capacity planning, multi-AZ resilience, performance and endurance testing, and incident response for your services.

Partner with Security, Privacy and Legal to ensure backend designs meet PII, credit-reporting and regulatory requirements across Gen product portfolio.

Mentor engineers, lead design reviews and help shape the long-term technical roadmap for Financial Wellness backends at Gen.

### About you

### Must-haves

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-haves

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.

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