Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Spring)

About the role

Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Spring) — Engine by Gen

About Gen

Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion, Engine 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

Engine by Gen partners with leading financial institutions to surface the richest, most comprehensive set of personalized financial product offers to consumers. We're looking for an experienced backend engineer with strong judgment and a thoughtful critical perspective to help build the services behind our financial products marketplace.

This role isn't about producing baseline code quickly, modern AI tools can do that. It's about collaboration, setting direction, making sound decisions, and driving technical quality. You'll use AI agents as force multipliers while holding a high bar for correctness, maintainability, testability, and operational excellence.

What You'll Do

- Own quality — design reviews, code review, test strategy, and production readiness.

- Architect for change — design and build backend systems that are intentionally small, composable, and resilient to evolving product requirements.

- Design clean contracts — dependable REST APIs, events, and service boundaries that support partner integrations and downstream systems.

- Strengthen the system — improve performance, reliability, and observability, and catch the subtle issues that are easy to miss in fast-moving, AI-assisted development.

- Collaborate cross-functionally — partner with product, data, and fellow engineers to shape solutions, clarify tradeoffs, and deliver reliably.

- Lead AI-assisted development — use AI agents for prototyping, scaffolding, and refactoring, then harden the result and validate it through tests, reasoning, and edge-case review.