3 months ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical direction for large-scale distributed systems and enterprise platforms.
- Design high-performance, scalable services using backend and cloud-native patterns.
- Drive architecture roadmaps and technology decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, compliance, maintainability, and cost.
- Influence multiple engineering teams and align them around a shared technical vision.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, UX, Risk, Compliance, and other stakeholders to connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
- Establish standards for system design, code quality, observability, testability, and operational excellence.
- Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders through design reviews, architecture guidance, and hands-on coaching.
- Strategically address technical debt while supporting product innovation and delivery velocity.
- Own the performance, scalability, resilience, and security posture of critical systems.
- Improve engineering effectiveness, culture, and technical standards across the organization.
Requirements
- Deep expertise designing and building large-scale distributed systems and enterprise-grade software platforms.
- Strong experience with Java, Spring, and modern service-oriented or microservices-based architectures.
- Strong understanding of APIs, platform design, data models, integration patterns, and system design trade-offs.
- Proven experience shaping architecture roadmaps and influencing technical direction across teams or business units.
- Ability to simplify complex technical problems into scalable and maintainable solutions in ambiguous environments.
- Excellent communication skills for aligning engineers, product managers, and senior stakeholders around architectural decisions.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and developing technical talent across an organization.
- Experience with payments, billing, financial systems, or other high-scale transaction platforms is preferred.
- Experience designing systems with requirements for security, fraud prevention, compliance, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery is preferred.
- Familiarity with SDKs, API contracts, webhooks, and developer platform enablement is preferred.
- Experience in both enterprise companies and startups is a plus.
About Zuora
Zuora builds subscription management and monetization software—billing, payments, revenue recognition, and analytics—for companies with recurring or usage-based offerings. It sells a multi-product SaaS platform and APIs to launch products, automate invoicing and collections, and close the books. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company was acquired by Silver Lake in 2024 after previously trading on the NYSE.