Software Development Engineer - Server / Backend

MUMBAI
BANKING – ENGINEERING
FULL-TIME

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The platform engineering team designs, builds and owns the systems to support the various applications,
products, and services. We are a team of highly motivated individuals with a passion for solving large
complex problems. We value an aptitude for research and a passion for learning. Together we are building
one of the largest distributed computing platforms in the country.

As a part of the engineering team you will be:

• 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 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 do we look 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.
• Research, evaluate and socialize new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the
system.
• Be able to multi-task, prioritize and handle dependencies with minimal oversight.

From a technology perspective, you should have knowledge and/or experience in a reasonably sized
subset of the following ( the more, the merrier!! )
• 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.
 Bonus Points

• Clear understanding of the CAP theorem and its implications for real-world distributed systems
• “Call me maybe” is more than just a song for you
• 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

Co-founded by Bhavin Turakhia (CEO) and Ramki Gaddipati (CTO), Zeta® is on a mission to make
digital payments easy, inclusive and valuable for corporations, employees and merchants everywhere in
India. Our products revolve around a key idea that sending and receiving money should be easy, fast, and
trouble-free. Our Business Units are 1) Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG)- Zeta offers employee-benefit
solutions like meal benefits, fuel and gadget allowance, communication reimbursements, RnR and more.
To strengthen the ESG offerings we've tied-up with partners like RBL, Kotak and IDFC-First banks. 2)
Zeta Express®-an innovative payment solution aimed at making corporate cafeterias cashless. The suite
includes the Zeta Super Tag™, Zeta Express® Kiosk, Express Remote and Zeta Super ID. 3) Zeta
Banking- Zeta is a technology partner/enabler that provides digital services: Card Management, Corporate
Products solution and Customer lifecycle automation. Our corporate clientele includes over 14,000 clients
across industries ranging from large conglomerates to small start-ups. Zeta has over 450 employees
spread over 11 Indian cities: Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata,
Nashik, Baroda, Kochi, and Ahmedabad. Zeta is ISO certified and PCI-DSS compliant. Zeta has also
partnered with market leaders like Sodexo, RBL Bank, IDFC First Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ADP
India, Excelity Global and Aon Hewitt.

Zeta was awarded the best B2B platform and the best Payment App at the Payments and Cards Summit
2018. Zeta was also recognized as one of India’s most innovative product companies at NASSCOM
Emerge 50 awards 2017 and was named the Fintech Rising Star for 2017 by the India FinTech forum.

Here’s what we’ve built so far:

1. Zeta Tax Benefits: Fully-digitized employee tax-benefits programme that helps employees save
over 80k in taxes and helps organisations save up 90% of their time and resources
2. Zeta Express: A corporate cafeteria solution that makes cafeterias automated and completely
cashless
3. Zeta Super Card: An advanced card-based payment solution that is 10x more secure than bank-
issued cards
4. Zeta Spotlight: A digitized rewards, recognition and gifting solution that is easy to distribute and
easy to spend
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