Princ Software Engineer

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

In this role you’ll get to learn huge scale of systems, implement new features covering commerce and licensing system, collaborate with talented folks to brainstorm an optimised solution which can work in scale. If you love moving in fast paced manner, definitely this role will excite you.

What You Will Do in This Role

• Work with little or no supervision on analysis and development tasks

• Responsible for owning the design specifications and associated code for complete software components

• Collaborate within and across groups in discussing solutions, solicit feedback and writing user interface specifications

• Identify and suggest solutions to problems of significant scope

• Provide thought and technology leadership and work closely with other engineers and architects to help develop quality products, testable designs, and test tools

• Is looked upon to offer direction, guidance and mentoring to Junior individuals on the team

• May act as team lead or technical lead for a large portion of or an entire project

• Anticipates and identifies problems then provides alternative solutions to successful end result

• Reviews the design and code of junior developers and takes necessary corrective actions if needed

• Author best software development practices as well as come up with standards specific to the team

• Learn technology trends across the industry and analyze how they can be adopted by the team

• Contribute towards both Dev and QA automation.

• Adamant about writing quality, reusable, and performant code.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adhere to deadlines.

• One can rapidly deploy, learn and iterate on new features.

• Eager to continuously improve your skill set.

• Push the limits to make great things happen.

• Compulsive need to excel in what you do. 

What You’ll Need to be Successful in this Role

• BE in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent combination of Training & 8+ years of Experience

• Expert Java and Spring development experience, preferably gained on complex, multi-tier, web-based business applications on Weblogic or Tomcat

• Very experienced and comfortable with Hibernate

• React/Angular JS experience

• Very good Oracle database and PLSQL practical experience

• Knowledge and experience of Agile software development processes and methodologies

• Solid understanding of Continuous Integration best practices

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)

• Excellent troubleshooting skill to root cause complex issues

• Microservice-oriented architectures & REST based web service development

• Demonstrated skill in using coding standards and an active code reviewer

• ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Spark, Kafka, AWS, Azure experience a net advantage

Gen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all employees. All employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs, without regard to race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions), genetic information, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, military or veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local law. Gen strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based on such protected characteristics and seeks to recruit the most talented candidates from diverse cultures and backgrounds. 

We also consider employment-qualified individuals with arrest and conviction records. In addition, we will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Learn more about pay transparency. 

Gen complies with all anti-discrimination laws. 

To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.