Lead Software Development Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Zeta, a Next-Gen Banking Tech company, empowers banks and fintechs to launch future-ready banking products. Founded in 2015, its flagship platform, Zeta Tachyon, is a cloud-native, API-enabled stack for issuance, processing, lending, core banking, and fraud/risk management, with over 20 million cards issued globally. Zeta collaborates with major banks and fintechs worldwide, enhancing customer experience for multi-million card portfolios. With over 1700 employees, emphasizing R&D roles, Zeta operates across the US, EMEA, and Asia. In 2021, the company secured $280 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from investors like Softbank and Mastercard. The role involves building highly-scalable and secure payments platforms, owning components, driving innovation, gathering requirements from product teams, and working with industry experts. Responsibilities include securing payments with cutting-edge cryptography, deriving insights from data, building high-performance network infrastructure, and participating in recruitment and mentorship.
Must have:
- Review and influence design, architecture, standards, and methods with stability, maintainability, and scale in mind.
- Identify patterns and provide solutions to classes of problems.
- Multitask, prioritize, and handle dependencies with minimal oversight.
- Worked on large-scale Java applications.
- Understand distributed systems, scalability, and availability.
- Good knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and transactions.
- Focus on latency and throughput of services.
- In-depth understanding of concurrency, synchronization, NIO, memory allocation, and GC.
- Experience with IaaS clouds (AWS/Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack).
- Experience with Message Brokers and Application Containers.
- Great ability to mentor and train other team members.
Good to have:
- Clear understanding of CAP theorem and its implications.
- Studied distributed systems (Dynamo, HBase, messaging/queuing systems).
- Understanding of time, clocks, ordering of events, rate control, and load distribution.
- Ability to detect fraud, transaction risks, and abuse.
8 skills required
Job Details
About Zeta
Zeta is a Next-Gen Banking Tech company that empowers banks and fintechs to launch banking products for the future. It was founded by Bhavin Turakhia and Ramki Gaddipati in 2015.
Our flagship processing platform - Zeta Tachyon - is the industry’s first modern, cloud-native, and fully API-enabled stack that brings together issuance, processing, lending, core banking, fraud & risk, and many more capabilities as a single-vendor stack. 20M+ cards have been issued on our platform globally.
Zeta is actively working with the largest Banks and Fintechs in multiple global markets transforming customer experience for multi-million card portfolios.
Zeta has over 1700+ employees - with over 70% roles in R&D - across locations in the US, EMEA, and Asia. We raised $280 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from Softbank, Mastercard, and other investors in 2021.
What would you do here?
- Building highly-scalable and secure payments platform
- Primary owners of one or more components of the platform and will drive innovation in your area of ownership
- Working with various product teams gathering requirements and adding capabilities
- Working with some of the smartest people in the industry and will have ample opportunity to learn and grow
- Using cutting-edge cryptography to secure payments beyond industry standards.
- Deriving actionable insights by mining TBs of data.
- Building a low-level infrastructure that aims to push the boundaries of network performance.
- Participating actively in recruitment and nurturing of engineers as awesome as you
What are we looking for?
- Review and influence new evolving design, architecture, standards and methods with stability, maintainability, and scale in mind
- Identify patterns and provide solutions to class of problems
- Be able to multitask, prioritize and handle dependencies with minimal oversight
- Worked on one or more large scale java applications
- Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability
- Good knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases and transactions
- Shrewd focus on latency and throughput of services
- In-depth understanding of concurrency, synchronization, NIO, memory allocation and GC
- Experience with IaaS clouds like AWS/Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack etc..
- Experience in working with Message Brokers and Application Containers
- Great ability to mentor and train other team members
- The clear understanding of the CAP theorem and its implications for real-world distributed systems.
- You have studied distributed systems like Dynamo, HBase, various messaging and queuing systems and understand nuances of Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events, rate control, load distribution
- You can smell fraud, transaction risks and abuse a mile away
Good to have
Life At Zeta
At Zeta, we want you to grow to be the best version of yourself by unlocking the great potential that lies within you. This is why our core philosophy is ‘People Must Grow.’ We recognize your aspirations; act as enablers by bringing you the right opportunities, and let you grow as you chase disruptive goals.
#LifeAtZeta is adventurous and exhilarating at the same time. You get to work with some of the best minds in the industry and experience a culture that values the diversity of thoughts. If you want to push boundaries, learn continuously and grow to be the best version of yourself, Zeta is the place to be! Explore the life at zeta
Zeta is an equal opportunity employer.
At Zeta, we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of job history, disability, gender identity, religion, race, marital/parental status, or another special status. We are proud to be an equitable workplace that welcomes individuals from all walks of life if they fit the roles and responsibilities.
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