Lead Backend Engineer

Bangalore, India. Posted 6 months ago

The role

You will design, build and own the distributed backend systems behind Zeta's CRM platform. You will lead the technical roadmap with engineers and product managers, and guide the engineering team.

What you will do

Lead design and development of SMS, MMS and RCS messaging services
Translate business and product requirements into scalable backend architectures
Architect and develop high-performance backend services and APIs
Ensure product quality through code reviews, testing and engineering best practices
Debug and resolve production problems and improve performance
Take end-to-end ownership of critical platform components

Required qualifications

10+ years building scalable, reliable backend systems in Java, Python, Ruby or similar
8-12 years working with Python, Ruby and/or J2EE, with 3-5 years as hands-on lead engineer or technical architect
BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
Strong experience with distributed systems and data infrastructure such as Kafka, Elasticsearch and NoSQL databases like Aerospike
Experience with data warehousing such as Snowflake, ClickHouse or Redshift
Working knowledge of Thrift, CI/CD pipelines and AWS cloud services
Experience with container-based solutions
Experience with multi-tenant architectures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
Experience building RESTful web services and microservices
Experience owning and operating multiple instances of mission-critical services
Experience with Agile methodology and Test-Driven Development
Experience building real-time streaming data pipelines that scale horizontally

Nice to have

Experience with RCS implementations
A Bachelor's degree from a university where the primary language of instruction is English

Before you apply

A Bachelor's degree from an English-instruction university is strongly preferred

About the company

Zeta Global is a publicly traded (NYSE: ZETA) AI-powered marketing technology company founded in 2007. It combines a large proprietary data set with artificial intelligence to help brands acquire, grow and retain customers.