Lead Software Development Engineer - Backend

Summary

The Lead Software Developer will shape the architecture, implement best practices, and drive technical direction of backend development efforts at Zeta. This role involves building highly-scalable and secure payments platforms, working with various product teams, using cutting-edge cryptography, deriving actionable insights from large amounts of data, and participating in recruitment and nurturing of engineers.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

Working with the smartest people in the industry and will have ample opportunity to learn and grow