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# Staff Backend Engineer (Scala) at Gen Digital Inc.

- **Company:** [Gen Digital Inc.](https://feeny.ai/companies/gen-digital-inc)
- **Location:** United States / New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $200k–$230k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gen-digital/c9b13639-8bd7-47bb-9785-b8f6a480d8a1

## Job description

Staff Backend Engineer (Scala) Backend Core Enterprise

Engine by Gen collaborates with leading financial institutions to deliver the most comprehensive and personalized financial product offers to consumers. As a Staff Engineer on the Backend Core Enterprise team, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping products that integrate seamlessly with existing features, data, and infrastructure across the organization. These API-driven solutions power internal systems and are packaged for delivery to our extensive partner network. The team’s mission is to amplify the impact of existing verticals while engineering industry-leading architecture designed for scale, speed, and innovation.

Get ready to shape the future of scalable, high-impact distributed systems. As a Staff Engineer in this role, you’ll drive the technical design and delivery of complex software solutions that impact the entire organization. By defining and building an internal software platform, you’ll empower teams to deliver predictable, high-quality features at scale. Collaborating with stakeholders and partners, you’ll refine architectural constraints and requirements, ensuring alignment with both immediate needs and long-term goals. Your expertise will guide the organization’s architectural strategy, and your influence will extend through design and code reviews, technical mentorship, and fostering a culture of excellence in hiring and innovation.

Day-to-day: ● Design and implement large-scale backend software systems creating new partner-facing and internal data-driven APIs. ● Review code with an emphasis on readability and maintainability ● Write API and technical documentation for services and new architecture. ● Optimize database schemas to support scalable, high-performance backend services. ● Contribute to our RFC process by writing technical proposals and providing feedback to others ● Mentor and guide technical growth of engineering talent ● Be a resource for solving hard, technical problems across teams and projects ● Stay up-to-date with the state of the software industry

Qualifications: ● A minimum of 8+ years of experience in software engineering ● 2+ years of proven success in senior engineering roles ● Demonstrated success collaborating across engineering, product, and business functions to deliver functionality ● Meticulous attention to detail in reviewing others' and your own work ● Experience developing and testing in Scala or other JVM languages ● Solid understanding of software design patterns, functional programming, and database schema design ● Experience designing highly scalable event streaming architecture using Kafka/MSK or equivalent. ● Experience with service-oriented architecture and RESTful API design ● Expertise in PostgreSQL ● Expertise in AWS product and tools ● Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools, including Datadog or equivalent

Good to have, not required: ● Experience in customer-facing roles ● Familiar with modern DevOps tooling ○ Kubernetes/Docker ○ Terraform ● Familiar with Scala and the Lightbend and Typelevel ecosystems ○ Lightbend: Slick, Play/Play JSON ○ Typelevel: http4s, doobie/skunk, circe, cats, cats-effect ○ Debezium

## 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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