Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Gen is a global company powering Digital Freedom through consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, Reputation Defender, and CCleaner. Our combined heritage is rooted in providing safety for the first digital generations. We bring leading technology solutions in cybersecurity, privacy and identity protection to more than 500 million users in 150 countries so they can live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently today and for generations to come. We're always looking for smart, fearless, and dedicated people. Together, we have collective passion and a big vision to power Digital Freedom by protecting consumers and giving them control of their digital lives.  

When you’re a part of Gen, you are provided access to a range of resources and support to ensure you can do your best work and live your best life. This includes flexible working options with generous time off and competitive benefits & compensation packages. 

Diversity is foundational to how we do business because we know the greatest ideas and results come from our unique perspectives and differences. We strive to create a safe, inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. Team members are valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are in a meaningful and exciting atmosphere. Gen is an equal employment opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs.  

If this sounds like you—Gen has a dynamic, supportive culture with core values that celebrate diversity, promote teamwork, and encourage every team member to contribute and grow—join us! 

 
About the Role:

We're the team responsible for Gen's VPN backends, which consist of over 6,000 servers located at multiple data centers and cloud providers around the world, as well as over 100 backend applications providing services to more than 400 million client applications/devices. We design backend applications that endure heavy traffic, create lightweight and easy-to-use APIs, develop apps to assist our Infra team, and facilitate communication with clients and SDKs team. We tackle complex problems, often with unconventional ideas.

We strive to provide the best possible Quality of Service (QoS) for our clients while maintaining high security standards. We value openness, the ability to express your own opinions, and a desire for self-improvement and team enhancement.

What You'll Do In This Role:

• Work with Product Managers, Engineering leaders & architects on new requirements. 

• Lead complex technical design of the systems architecture & components built using Java/Kotlin/Go.

• Contribute to design and specification of the systems architecture.

• Work with other team members (design, architecture, code review, etc.).

• Contribute to the whole application lifecycle (development, testing, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, etc.).

• Continuously maintain, improve existing server components.

• Work with Jira, GitHub, TeamCity, Confluence.

• Work in team, as a team.

Behaviors you have:

• Proactive team player

• Bringing your true self to work ~ we actively celebrate diversity and our differences

• Ownership

• Willingness to learn

What You'll Need To Be Successful In This Role:

• Strong experience with Java / Kotlin / GO Experience with backend development

• Experience working SQL & No-SQL databases. 

• AWS/GCP/Kubernetes experience is a plus

• Ability to write test-cases, testable code, Unit tests, Integration & Automation suites.

• Ability to communicate in English with the team and stakeholders (B2+)

• Experience with design of REST API services

What we welcome:

• Ruby experience (maintanance of existing components)

• Significant experience in building secure applications

• Docker

• Grafana

• NoSQL (Cassandra) databases

• Elasticsearch

• Kotlin DSL build jobs and integration with TeamCity

• Knowledge of VPN protocols

What We Can Offer:

• Annual bonus scheme

• Unlimited PTO (paid time off), flexible working hours & home office.

• The chance to join a major global tech company listed on the S&P 500.

• Opportunity to learn and work with the best in the Digital Security industry

• Cafeteria points are provided by Benefit Plus (meal plan, pension insurance, travel, free time activities, multisport card, and much more).

• Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses

• Learning & Development plan.