Manager - Software Development

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 Bhavin Turakhia 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 1700+ employees - with over 70% roles in R&D - across locations in the US, EMEA, and Asia. We raised $280 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from Softbank, Mastercard, and other investors in 2021.

About the Role

Manager - Software Development will play a key role in driving the technical direction, fostering innovation, and ensuring the successful delivery of software projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers
• Deliver best engineered products from all engineering aspects like designing, architecting across multiple product lines
• Drive customer experience, continually raising the bar on functionality, usability, and simplicity
• Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement
• Drive best practices, and is a pro with agile methodologies / practices - SCRUM, Test Driven Development (TDD)Breaking down complex requirements into simpler stories
• Establish a solid project framework and development processes
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with global hardware and software engineering teams
• Operate strategically and tactically. Work on strategy and help set direction while staying on top of the day to day software development
• Manage headcount, deliverables, schedules across ongoing projects, ensure that timelines are met in accordance with the project roadmap
• Direct and provide ongoing leadership for a team of individual contributors, set objectives, review performances, define growth plan and nurture

Skills

• Worked on large scale java and Strong experience in architecting and building distributed systems.
• Create the optimum technical solution considering all the non-functional requirements
• Worked with Message Brokers and Application Containers
• Analyze, design and architect, develop and maintain software solutions across multiple projects
• Direct and provide ongoing leadership for a team of individual contributors, set objectives, review performances, define growth plan and nurture.
• Drive best practices, and is a pro with agile methodologies / practices - SCRUM, Test Driven Development (TDD)Manage headcount, deliverables, schedules across ongoing projects, ensure that resources are appropriately allocated and timelines are met in accordance with the project roadmaps

Experience and Qualifications

• 10+ years of strong experience managing software projects right from inception to launch, seeing the full lifecycle, building enterprise systems including at least 3 years of direct people management experience
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in engineering (computer science, information systems)

Life At Zeta

At Zeta, we want you to grow to be the best version of yourself by unlocking the great potential that lies within you. This is why our core philosophy is ‘People Must Grow.’ We recognize your aspirations; act as enablers by bringing you the right opportunities, and let you grow as you chase disruptive goals. 

#LifeAtZeta is adventurous and exhilarating at the same time. You get to work with some of the best minds in the industry and experience a culture that values the diversity of thoughts. If you want to push boundaries, learn continuously and grow to be the best version of yourself, Zeta is the place to be! Explore the life at zeta 

Zeta is an equal opportunity employer.

At Zeta, we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of job history, disability, gender identity, religion, race, marital/parental status, or another special status. We are proud to be an equitable workplace that welcomes individuals from all walks of life if they fit the roles and responsibilities.