Lead Software Engineer - Financial Wellness

About the role

We’re looking for a Lead Backend Software Engineer to lead the backend architecture for the Gen Financial Wellness platform. You’ll own critical services end-to-end, set technical direction, and work across teams to deliver secure, reliable and compliant financial experiences at scale.

What you'll do

• 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

What you need

• Java
• System design
• AWS
• Kafka
• Spring Boot
• PostgreSQL

Good to have

• Node.js
• Python
• Redis
• Datadog
• Kotlin
• BigQuery