Lead Software Engineer - Financial Wellness

6 hours agoLead CZE - Prague; IND - Chennai; IRL - Dublin Hybrid Full Time Backend Jobs by MoneyLion

Skills

About the Role

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.

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)

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