• 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.