Sr. Software Engineer

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• Design, develop, and evolve a robust, scalable, and secure licensing platform supporting entitlement management, compliance, telemetry, and reporting.
• Take ownership of critical platform components, ensuring availability, resilience, and performance under high-scale, production workloads.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and adjacent engineering teams to define, build, and ship new features and platform capabilities.
• Work hands‑on with AI/ML technologies to embed intelligence into platform workflows—including RAG pipelines, agents, and vector database integrations.
• Write high‑quality, testable code in Java and Groovy, following established engineering best practices.
• Develop and maintain API interfaces (REST and event‑driven) used across internal systems and external integrations.
• Leverage cloud‑native services (AWS or Azure) for platform scalability, observability, and deployment.
• Promote clean architecture, automation, and secure‑by‑default practices across the platform.
• Participate in and lead code reviews, design discussions, Agile ceremonies, and technical deep‑dives.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with significant work on platform‑level systems.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Groovy, including production‑grade service development.
• Hands‑on experience with AI/ML technologies, including:
  • Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline
  • AI agents / orchestration frameworks
  • Vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Weaviate, Pinecone)
  • Integration of foundation models (OpenAI, Hugging Face, AWS Bedrock, etc.)
• Experience designing and operating cloud‑native platforms on AWS or Azure.
• Deep understanding of SQL and No
  
  SQL databases (e.g., Postgre
  
  SQL, Dynamo
  
  DB).
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (JUnit, Spock, TestNG) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid grasp of event‑driven architectures, pub/sub systems (e.g., Kafka, SQS), and API design.
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization standards (OAuth2, OpenID, SAML).
• Strong problem‑solving and debugging skills in large‑scale production systems.

• Background in licensing, entitlement, billing, or subscription platforms.
• Understanding of observability tooling, service instrumentation, and platform monitoring.
• Experience with Dev Ops principles and infrastructure‑as‑code workflows.
• Exposure to data streaming, audit logging, and compliance reporting in distributed systems.

• Contribute to a mission‑critical platform that directly enables product access, revenue, and compliance across global customers.
• Work at the intersection of AI, cloud, and cybersecurity, building the next generation of intelligent infrastructure.
• Be part of a high‑trust, high‑impact engineering culture focused on innovation, autonomy, and accountability.
• Solve complex backend and platform challenges at scale, with access to cutting‑edge tools and support.

Gen is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusivity. We base employment decisions on merit, experience, and business needs, without considering race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, or other unlawful factors. Gen prohibits discrimination based on these protected characteristics and recruits talented candidates from diverse backgrounds.

We consider individuals with arrest and conviction records and do not discriminate against employees for discussing their own pay or that of other employees or applicants. Learn more about pay transparency.

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