Senior Software engineer React Front end

Gen is a global company powering Digital Freedom through consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, 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.

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

We are hiring a senior software engineer to build our Privacy security products, the role is hybrid with at least 3 days in our Chennai office.

We require experience in React/Typescript (JS) and AWS preferable.

What You Will Do in This Role

• Responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and implementing software solutions using server-side technologies, and other open-source frameworks.
• Identifies and suggests solutions to problems of significant scope, work independently and produce long-term & broader solution across all scenarios.
• Performs and is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing highly complex components in existing products and new offerings. Deliver high-quality features and products with faster turnaround.
• Drive and contribute to technology evaluations for choosing the appropriate and relevant technology for solution development.
• Demonstrate a sharp learning curve to understand new technologies, platforms, and applications.
• Apply good design patterns and practices for designing and implementing solutions, widely used, and emerging in the industry.
• Communicates clearly and effectively within the team and with other groups like QA, Support, and other product/engineering teams.
• Ability to successfully work under tight project deadlines. Self-motivated, team player, action and results-oriented, custom-centered.
• Works with minimum or no supervision on development and related tasks.

What You’ll Need to be Successful in this Role

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent engineering qualification and experience required.
• 5+ years of software development experience, specifically in Consumer based software development. Web Development experience for frontend, server-side, and backend applications.
• 3+ years of cloud developer experience, especially on AWS.
• 3+ years of development experience using JavaScript, TypeScript, Nodejs, Vite, Tailwind CSS (or similar) and reactJs.
• 2+ Years of experience in no-SQL databases (DynamoDB/DocumentDB/MongoDB)
• 2+ Years of experience in developing RESTful enterprise services.
• 2+ years of experience with CI/CD using Jenkins/team city.
• 2+ years of experience in writing unit tests and automation tools like Cucumber.
• Exposure to software design and development frameworks, including open-source frameworks.
• Having product development experience in the Cybersecurity domain is a plus.
• Having exposure to AI/ML and bigdata technologies is a plus.
• Prior Experience in Working with Agile, a Plus.

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.