Lead Software Development Engineer - Backend

Posted 18 Days Ago
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Mumbai, Maharashtra
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
The Lead Software Development Engineer - Backend will build a highly-scalable payments platform, own components, drive innovation, and collaborate with product teams. Responsibilities include utilizing cutting-edge cryptography, working with large datasets, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud technologies, and performance optimization.
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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.

Learn more @ www.zeta.tech, careers.zeta.tech, Linkedin, Twitter

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

  • Good to have

  • 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

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.

Top Skills

Java
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
1,834 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Founded in 2015, Zeta is a provider of next-gen credit card processing platform. Zeta’s cloud-native and fully API-enabled stack offers a comprehensive range of capabilities, including processing, issuing, lending, core banking, fraud detection, and loyalty programs. With a strong focus on technology, Zeta has over 1700+ employees and contractors, with more than 70% dedicated to technology roles. Operating across the US, UK, Middle East, and Asia, Zeta has served a global customer base of 35+ clients who have issued over 15 million cards on Zeta's platform to date. Backed by prominent investors such as Softbank Vision Fund 2 and Mastercard, Zeta has raised $280 million, at a valuation of $1.5 billion.

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