About the role

Zeta intends to replace many legacy systems in use by banks for processing payments. Banks need to leapfrog into an era of connected devices and omnipresent commerce. Banking should become an integral part of the commerce and enterprise systems, thereby enabling seamless consumer and business transactions. The average number of interactions an account holder may have with a bank would increase to 12-15 per day in the near term from the current average of 3-4 transactions per month. These could grow to an unimaginably large number in the future. Most banking systems aren’t designed for this scale. In many ways, these systems are limiting the imagination of possibilities. We want this changed fundamentally, in an inter-operable and regulatory compliant manner.
We build large-scale transaction processing systems that can work with many current and future payment networks. We build applications that help banks realize the value of this new approach early. We help banks to rapidly deliver the value of these applications to their customers.
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.
What does the job look like?

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 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 multitask, prioritize and handle dependencies with minimal oversight

From a technology perspective, you should have the 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

The 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

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