Lead Software Engineer - Financial Wellness

You will lead the backend architecture for the Gen Financial Wellness platform, powering Norton Money, Norton 360 and LifeLock. 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. You'll design REST APIs, champion event-driven architectures, drive reliability and performance efforts, partner with Security, Privacy and Legal teams, and mentor engineers while shaping the long-term technical roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve backend services for Financial Wellness (Norton Money, Norton 360, Norton Genie and LifeLock) from design and implementation to operations and observability
• Design and review REST APIs and data contracts between internal and external services and providers
• Champion event-driven architectures and telemetry pipelines for offers, leads, financial events and alerts
• Drive reliability and performance through SLOs, capacity planning, multi-AZ resilience, performance and endurance testing, and incident response
• Partner with Security, Privacy and Legal to ensure backend designs meet PII, credit-reporting and regulatory requirements
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews and help shape the long-term technical roadmap for Financial Wellness backends

Requirements

• 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
• Background in financial services, financial wellness, embedded finance, banking or credit products, or identity-/privacy-focused platforms (nice to have)
• Experience with serverless (API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Redis) and/or integrating with AI platforms (e.g., Bedrock, Strands agents, AgentCore, tool-calling) (nice to have)
• Familiarity with observability stacks such as Datadog, Dynatrace or Sumo Logic, and defining SLOs and alerts (nice to have)