Who we are
Founded in 2002, Zafin offers a SaaS product and pricing platform that simplifies core modernization for top banks worldwide. Our platform enables business users to work collaboratively to design and manage pricing, products, and packages, while technologists streamline core banking systems.
With Zafin, banks accelerate time to market for new products and offers while lowering the cost of change and achieving tangible business and risk outcomes. The Zafin platform increases business agility while enabling personalized pricing and dynamic responses to evolving customer and market needs.
Zafin is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices and customers around the globe including ING, CIBC, HSBC, Wells Fargo, PNC, and ANZ. Zafin is proud to be recognized as a top employer and certified Great Place to Work® in Canada, India and the UK.
What is the opportunity?
Reporting to the Chief Architect, the Architect will be at the forefront of technology modernization, blending strategy with hands-on development. Working alongside Product Management and domain experts, you’ll design and deliver scalable solutions that directly impact our clients. You’ll balance leadership and technical contributions, guiding engineers while writing code, troubleshooting, and creating cutting-edge solutions.
This hybrid role requires a minimum of two to three days per week in the office, giving you the flexibility to collaborate and innovate effectively.
Mode of Work: This hybrid role requires a minimum of two to three days per week in the office, giving you the flexibility to collaborate and innovate effectively.
What will you do?
- Lead and Code: Collaborate with teams of talented engineers, guiding architecture decisions while contributing directly to the codebase.
- Architect Solutions: Translate business requirements into system specifications, propose high-impact design changes, and develop enterprise-grade backend applications.
- Innovate and Optimize: Drive modern architectural practices like 12-factor app design, cloud-native development, and event-based systems.
- Troubleshoot Complex Issues: Use your expertise to diagnose and resolve challenging technical problems.
- Collaborate with Leadership: Partner with the Chief Architect and cross-functional teams to shape our modernization strategy and execute it with excellence.
- Deliver Impactful Results: Work in a fast-paced, agile environment, delivering solutions that scale and perform.
- Hands-On Problem Solver: You’re comfortable rolling up your sleeves to debug, code, and deliver solutions.
- Tech Enthusiast: Passionate about staying ahead of tech trends, experimenting, and learning.
- Effective Communicator: Skilled at explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- SaaS Mindset: Focused on scalability, reliability, and delivering exceptional user experiences.
What do you need to succeed?
Must Haves:
7+ years in:
- Designing and coding scalable, high-performance solutions.
- Leading technical teams in distributed systems and full-stack development.
- Building secure, cloud-native applications with technologies like Java, Spring (Spring Boot and Spring Batch) React, GraphQL, and Kafka.
- Database design and optimization with PostgreSQL and NoSQL solutions.
Expertise in:
- Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) with cost-efficient design principles.
- Event-driven architectures and stream processing.
- 12-factor app design and headless architectures.
Nice to Have:
- 3+ years in a product-focused environment.
- Experience with release automation and management including GitOps, CI/CD automation with Kustomize overlays and ArgoCD.
What’s in it for you
Joining our team means being part of a culture that values diversity, teamwork, and high-quality work. We offer competitive salaries, annual bonus potential, generous paid time off, paid volunteering days, wellness benefits, and robust opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. Want to learn more about what you can look forward to during your career with us? Visit our careers site and our openings: zafin.com/careers
Zafin welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Zafin is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information collected from all applicants throughout the recruitment process. The methods by which Zafin contains uses, stores, handles, retains, or discloses applicant information can be accessed by reviewing Zafin’s privacy policy at https://zafin.com/privacy-notice/. By submitting a job application, you confirm that you agree to the processing of your personal data by Zafin described in the candidate privacy notice.
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What We Do
Zafin, the global leader in SaaS cloud-native product and pricing solutions, is a trusted partner to the world’s most customer-centric financial institutions. Zafin’s product and pricing platform empowers banks of all sizes to center their customers, grow relationships and drive revenues.
The Zafin platform separates product and pricing from core processing to accelerate progressive modernization, enable digital transformation and deliver personalization at the relationship level.
A typical Zafin installation integrates easily with most back-end systems and customer-facing channels to increase product and pricing efficiency and agility, drive interest and non-interest income, and deliver a positive ROI—often in one year or less.
