Sr. Software Development Engineer Backend

About Zeta

Zeta is a Next-Gen Banking Tech company that empowers banks and fintechs to launch banking products for the future. It was founded by and Ramki Gaddipati in 2015.

Our flagship processing platform - Zeta Tachyon - is the industry's first modern, cloud-native, and fully API-enabled stack that brings together issuance, processing, lending, core banking, fraud & risk, and many more capabilities as a single-vendor stack. 20M+ cards have been issued on our platform globally.

Zeta is actively working with the largest Banks and Fintechs in multiple global markets transforming customer experience for multi-million card portfolios.

Zeta has over 1,700+ employees across the US, EMEA, and Asia, with 70%+ roles in R&D . Backed by SoftBank, Mastercard, and other investors , we raised $330M at a $2B valuation in 2025.

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About the Role

As a Lead Software Developer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the architecture, implementing best practices, and driving the technical direction of our backend development efforts.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Experience and Qualifications

Equal Opportunity

Skills Required

nio, Sql, messaging systems, Java, Distributed Systems, Microservices, Spring, Synchronization, Concurrency, Mysql, Rest, Postgresql, Elk Stack