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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.\nTogether, 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.\nWhen 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.\nAt 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.\nIf this sounds like you, we’d love you to be part of Gen.\nAbout the Role\nEngine 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.\nThis 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.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn quality - design reviews, code review, test strategy, and production readiness.\n\nArchitect for change - design and build backend systems that are intentionally small, composable, and resilient to evolving product requirements.\n\nDesign clean contracts - dependable REST APIs, events, and service boundaries that support partner integrations and downstream systems.\n\nStrengthen the system - improve performance, reliability, and observability, and catch the subtle issues that are easy to miss in fast-moving, AI-assisted development.\n\nCollaborate cross-functionally - partner with product, data, and fellow engineers to shape solutions, clarify tradeoffs, and deliver reliably.\n\nLead 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.\n\nRaise quality through testing - unit, integration/contract, and end-to-end coverage with fast CI feedback loops.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\n\n5+ years building and shipping production software, with deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot.\n\nStrong REST API design skills - service contracts, versioning, and backward compatibility.\n\nExperience designing and evolving distributed systems, including service decomposition and inter-service communication.\n\nSolid data modeling and persistence across SQL and NoSQL, including indexing and query performance.\n\nExperience with event-driven architecture (Kafka, SQS, or similar), including event design and reliability considerations.\n\nStrong observability instincts - logging, metrics, tracing, and debugging production systems.\n\nTesting across unit, integration, and contract layers, plus CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.\n\nAbility to articulate complex technical tradeoffs to stakeholders and translate product vision into high-fidelity technical direction.\n\nHands-on experience with Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent AI-augmented IDEs - with sound discernment about where AI is strong, where it falls short, and how to avoid shipping \"AI-shaped\" code.\n\nStack: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS, DataDog\nWhat's Next\nRecruiter Interview\n\nTake Home Assessment\n\nTechnical Interview\n\nHiring Manager Interview\n\nCulture Fit Interview\n\nLocation: New York, NY (Onsite 3 days per week)\nThe annual base salary for this position is expected to be between $168k - 190k. Base salary is one component of Gen's total compensation package, which includes 401(k) match, health insurance options, disability coverage, life insurance, and unlimited paid time off. Actual salaries will vary based on a candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and competencies related to the role.\nGen is an equal opportunity employer, and we're committed to fair, inclusive practices at every stage of the candidate and employee journey. 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