Lead Backend Engineer
Zeta Global5 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable mobile communication services supporting SMS, MMS, and RCS.
- Translate business and product requirements into scalable backend architectures and core platform components.
- Architect and implement high-performance backend services and APIs with strong performance, scalability, reliability, and concurrency characteristics.
- Lead code reviews, testing strategies, engineering best practices, debugging, production issue resolution, and performance improvements.
- Own the end-to-end design, development, scalability, and reliability of critical platform components while providing technical leadership to the engineering team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 8–12 years of experience with Python, Ruby, and/or J2EE technologies, including 3–5 years as a hands-on lead engineer or technical architect.
- Strong experience building scalable and reliable backend systems, distributed systems, data infrastructure, and horizontally scalable real-time streaming pipelines.
- Experience with Kafka, Elasticsearch, Aerospike or other NoSQL databases, Snowflake, ClickHouse, or Redshift.
- Working knowledge of Thrift, AWS cloud services, container-based solutions, multi-tenant architectures, and mission-critical services.
- Experience building RESTful web services and microservices, and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Agile development, and Test-Driven Development.
- Demonstrated adoption of AI tools and AI-based development practices.
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills.
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About Zeta Global
Zeta Global builds an AI-powered marketing cloud that unifies customer data, analytics, and omnichannel activation for enterprise brands and agencies. Its Zeta Marketing Platform combines martech and adtech—spanning CRM, email, display, and social—to acquire, grow, and retain customers on a subscription and media-buying model. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York City, Zeta is a public company trading on the NYSE under the ticker ZETA.