Backend Engineering Working Student v Brno, Česko

About Gen:

Gen (NASDAQ: GEN) is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands, including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion, Avira, AVG, CCleaner, GOBankingRates, ReputationDefender, and Trellis Technologies. Gen brings award-winning products and services in cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection, financial wellness, and insurance to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.

Working at Gen is more than just a job. It’s where passion meets purpose, driving our mission to power Digital Freedom. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, and a giving mindset—enabling our team to deliver exceptional employee experiences and a positive impact to the world around us.

About the Role:

We are looking for a motivated Working Student to join our engineering team and contribute to the development of backend services and evaluation frameworks powering some of our key product features, including Daily Digest and Trending Scams.

In this role, you will take ownership of developing and improving an evaluation service that helps ensure the quality, accuracy, and relevance of the content and detections delivered to our users. You will work on automated evaluation and testing pipelines, contribute to backend integrations, and collaborate with experienced engineers across different teams.

This is a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience working on real-world engineering challenges, contribute to products used at scale, and further develop your software engineering skills in a collaborative environment.

What You'll Do

• Own and develop evaluation frameworks: Take ownership of the development and continuous improvement of an evaluation service/framework responsible for validating the quality, accuracy, and relevance of content and detections powering the Daily Digest and Trending Scams features.

• Build automated testing pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain automated evaluation and testing pipelines to ensure the reliability, consistency, and quality of these product areas.

• Drive backend integration: Work on integrating the evaluation service with broader backend systems, independently progressing tasks and delivering solutions with limited supervision.

• Contribute to code quality: Participate in code reviews with the wider Architecture team, collaborate on technical improvements, and follow established engineering best practices.

• Collaborate across teams: Work with engineers and stakeholders from different teams on related initiatives and projects. This may include contributing to cross-team initiatives such as the NeoClaw for VSB project in collaboration with Břetislav Šopík's team.

• Take ownership and grow: Demonstrate initiative, independence, attention to detail, and a continuous learning mindset while delivering meaningful contributions to the team's work.

What You'll Gain

• Hands-on experience developing backend services and evaluation frameworks.

• The opportunity to work on real product features and meaningful engineering challenges.

• Exposure to automated testing, software quality evaluation, and backend system integrations.

• Collaboration with experienced engineers and cross-functional teams.

• The opportunity to take ownership of your work and see the direct impact of your contributions.

• A supportive environment where you can develop your technical skills and grow as a software engineer.