Gen Digital Inc.

Staff Backend Engineer (Scala)

USA - New York, NY · Staff+

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ScalaCode ReviewPostgreSQLAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformDatadogDevOpsAPI DevelopmentRESTKafkaMentoring

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About the role

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.

Requirements

A minimum of 8+ years of experience in software engineering
2+ years of proven success in senior engineering roles
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
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

Skills

Staff Backend Engineer (Scala)
Backend Core Enterprise
Get ready to shape the future of scalable, high-impact distributed systems.
Review code with an emphasis on readability and maintainability
Write API and technical documentation for services and new architecture.
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

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