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# Full Stack Software Engineer at Gen Digital Inc.

- **Company:** [Gen Digital Inc.](https://feeny.ai/companies/gen-digital-inc)
- **Location:** United States / Mountain View, CA
- **Compensation:** $155k–$175k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gen-digital/fbee3ce9-bf9c-4e4e-92b7-96ae3bccf60c

## Job description

Full Stack Engineer – Digital Payments

About Gen: 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.

## What You'll Do

- Design, develop, and optimize full-stack applications (backend and frontend) for high-traffic payment platforms, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Build high-performance, secure integrations with global Payment Service Providers (PSPs) using modern protocols and API standards.
- Develop responsive, intuitive frontend experiences using modern JavaScript frameworks while building robust backend services that power them.
- Create lightweight, well-documented APIs for seamless client, SDK, and cross-team communication.
- Ensure high quality of service (QoS) and maintain strong security standards across the entire stack.
- Tackle complex end-to-end problems with innovative solutions and foster a culture of openness, learning, and continuous improvement.

Mission and Goals

- Lead the technical design and hands-on full-stack development of high-traffic payment applications — from database to UI.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering leaders, and Architects to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Own and drive complex technical designs of systems architecture and components built using Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot on the backend and React, Vue.js, or Angular on the frontend.
- Collaborate across engineering and product teams to build secure, performant systems that meet strict SLAs.
- Contribute to the entire application lifecycle — development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Champion systems architecture improvements and drive continuous modernization of existing services.
- Integrate with global PSPs, ensuring seamless payment flows across regions and providers.

## What You Bring

Required (10+ Years of Experience)

- Strong hands-on experience in Java, Spring, Spring Boot for backend development.
- Proficiency in at least one modern frontend framework: React, Vue.js, or Angular, with solid knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience designing and building APIs across multiple architectural styles — REST, Webhooks, SOAP, GraphQL.
- Proficiency with SQL (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB) databases.
- Experience with cloud platforms — Azure, AWS, or both — including deployment, scaling, and managed services.
- Strong ability to write unit tests, integration tests, and automated test suites.
- Solid Object-Oriented Design skills and understanding of design patterns.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development methodology.
- Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment across distributed teams and time zones.

Security Competencies

- Good understanding of API Security Best Practices for building secure applications across frontend and backend.
- Working experience applying strong cryptographic algorithms and secure hashing techniques.
- Hands-on experience with SAST/DAST tools to identify, review, and remediate security vulnerabilities.
- Good understanding of data security standards (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR) and their application in payment systems.

Added Benefits (Nice to Have)

- AI Proficiency & Tools: Familiarity with AI-powered development and automation tools such as N8N, LangChain, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms. Experience leveraging AI to accelerate development workflows, automate repetitive tasks, or build intelligent integrations is a strong plus.
- Exposure to AI/ML concepts and the ability to evaluate and integrate AI-driven capabilities into existing applications or workflows.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
- Experience with message brokers and event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Exposure to observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, ELK).

Whats Next:

- Recruiter Call
- Hiring Manager Interview
- Onsite Interview with Team

## About Gen Digital Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gen is a global leader in Cyber Safety, powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands Norton, Avast, LifeLock, and MoneyLion.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker not confirmed in provided sources; refer to SEC filings)
- **Headquarters**: Dual headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, United States, and Prague, Czech Republic
- **Founded**: Not explicitly disclosed; the merged entity (Gen) was formed in 2022 following the combination of NortonLifeLock and Avast
- **Founders**: Not publicly available for the merged company; predecessor brands were founded by Peter Norton (Norton) and Pavel Baudiš & Eduard Kučera (Avast)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity (Cyber Safety), digital privacy, identity protection, and financial wellness
- **Target customers**: B2C (individuals and families), with some B2B2C offerings for enterprises and institutions (breach response, employee benefits)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Powering Digital Freedom” – giving people the confidence, tools, and insights to control, manage, and grow their digital and financial lives

## Products & Services
- **Norton**: Award-winning cybersecurity, online privacy, and device protection for individuals and families (SaaS security suites, VPN, password manager, etc.)
- **Avast**: AI-powered threat detection and digital security products focused on malware, privacy, and real-time protection (freemium model, top-ranked by industry experts)
- **LifeLock**: Identity theft protection with proactive monitoring, alerts, and dedicated Identity Restoration Specialists (U.S. leader)
- **MoneyLion**: Digital financial wellness platform offering Instacash, RoarMoney, Credit Builder Plus, and a marketplace for financial products (B2C and B2B2C)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not provided in search results; as a publicly traded company, refer to SEC filings for current market cap
- **Key Metric**: Nearly 500 million global users across the brand ecosystem; MoneyLion has processed $7.5B+ in transaction volume and served 81M+ users since launch
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No specific investors cited; the company partners with leading institutions for breach response, employee benefits, and identity protection
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Total cyberattacks blocked in 2024 is a key metric (exact number not shared)
  - MoneyLion’s rapid growth in transaction volume and user base
  - Expanding from protection into financial wellness and AI-driven personalization

## Competitive Advantages
- Family of trusted, globally recognized consumer brands (Norton #1 top-of-mind Cyber Safety brand, LifeLock leader in identity protection)
- Deep visibility into a vast threat network (machine learning and AI across ~500M users) enables superior threat detection and personalization
- Unique platform combining cybersecurity, privacy, identity restoration, and financial wellness – a “trust layer” for the digital economy
- Dual HQ presence (U.S. and Europe) provides diverse talent and regulatory insight

## Strategic Focus
- Building a unified AI-powered platform that delivers personalized, proactive, and automated Cyber Safety and financial empowerment
- Deepening leadership in Cyber Safety while extending into financial wellness to compound lifetime customer value
- Positioning Gen as the “trust layer” for the AI economy – bridging what AI can do and what consumers trust it to do
- Expanding B2B2C partnerships (breach response, employee benefits, identity protection for institutions)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes collaboration, innovation, a giving mindset, and customer obsession. Values include “Think Big. Be Bold.”, “Be Scrappy. Make it Happen.”, and “Play to Win. Together.”
- **Work model**: Hybrid – choose which days to be in the office with an expectation of three days per week; unlimited paid time off; recognized holidays; parental leave and leaves of absence
- **Benefits**: 
  - Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) 
  - Performance-based bonuses
  - Learning & development (Learn@Gen, mentorship, degree/certification reimbursement, 24/7 eLearning)
  - Wellness: virtual fitness, on-site gyms, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) extending to dependents
  - Adoption, foster care, fertility, and surrogacy benefits in 15+ countries
  - Global recognition program (“Inspire”) and diverse employee communities
- **Interview process**: Transparent – 15-30 min recruiter chat, 2-3 skill/team interviews (may include a task), then offer. Reflects the company’s collaborative culture.

## Sources
1. [gendigital.com](https://www.gendigital.com/us/en/) – Company overview, brand family, mission, and metrics
2. [gendigital.com](https://www.gendigital.com/us/en/who-we-are/) – Who We Are, strategy, and solution details
3. [gendigital.com](https://www.gendigital.com/us/en/life-gen/) – Careers page with culture, values, and interview process
4. [gendigital.com](https://www.gendigital.com/us/en/life-gen/jobs/) – Open roles listing
5. [gendigital.com](https://www.gendigital.com/us/en/benefits/) – Benefits overview (hybrid work, wellness, learning, compensation)

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