The Role
Lead large-scale card issuing and transaction processing systems, define technology roadmaps, optimize processes, manage engineering teams, and ensure timely high-quality product delivery.
Summary Generated by Built In
About us Build the future of banking.
Zeta is a next-generation banking technology company providing cloud-native, fully stackable processing and core banking platforms for issuers. With a focus on scalability, compliance, and innovation, Zeta empowers financial institutions to modernize their technology infrastructure and deliver secure, seamless digital banking experiences.
Our impact runs at real-world scale. Today, over 25 million cards are live on Zeta-powered platforms across 7 countries, supported by a passionate team of 1,700+ Zetanauts across India, the US, EMEA, and Asia. Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Mastercard, and other reputed strategic investors, we reached a valuation of $2 billion in 2025.
Our focus is on establishing product lines that focus on key outcomes by addressing real customer pain points, modernizing legacy systems, and strengthening core fundamentals. As a result, our systems and platforms support a wide range of banking and payments capabilities, including:
1. Tachyon, our cloud-native banking stack built for population-scale systems
2. Cipher, our unified authentication platform for secure, high-volume banking environments
3. Digital Credit as a Service, enabling banks to launch credit lines on UPI
4. Elena, our intelligent and conversational AI platform for banking
5. Pixel, India’s first digital-native credit card, launched in partnership with HDFC Bank, for whom we also revamped their PayZapp mobile app: Winner of the Celent Model Bank Award for Payments Innovation 2024
6. Sparrow, the leading card experience for non-prime cardholders in the US
…and more across cards, payments, lending, and core banking.
We are an engineering-first organization that values ownership, bias for action, and long-term thinking. Together, we solve some of the hardest problems in banking tech. Our culture is built around trust, collaboration, and creating the conditions for you to drive impact proportionate to your potential. Reinforcing our commitment to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace, we have been consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work.
If you want to build cutting-edge banking tech that enables banks to serve millions reliably, securely, and at a population scale, Zeta is your playground.
If you would like to learn more about how we have grown and evolved over the years, watch our journey here. You can also explore our website and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram,YouTube, and X.
Zeta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities to apply and believe that a diverse workforce is key to our success.
About the role
A senior technology leader with deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, databases, and enterprise-scale architectures. Brings strong hands-on experience across the full software lifecycle, balancing functional and non-functional requirements. Proven track record of leading large-scale systems from inception to production.
Responsibilities
- Define technology roadmap for various products of a business unit. Align choices to overall organization technology strategy.
- Work closely with teams to review architectural and technological choices for functional, cost and time to deliver fitment.
- Optimize processes for productivity.
- Build teams, assess skill gaps, plan upskilling exercises.
- Collaborate with operations teams to monitor and assure SLA adherence of all services.
- Collaborate with directors and managers of QA, Project, UX and other teams for staffing each project appropriately.
- Mentor and manage engineering managers for effective delivery of projects
- Percolate the benefits of the relevant technological choices to Product, Operations, Business and Executive teams.
- Be responsible to ship products at high quality in a timely manner.
Skills
- Good understanding of distributed systems, micro-services, messaging systems and associated architectural patterns.
- In-depth understanding of traditional relational databases and various key-value document stores.
- Thorough understanding of transactional and analytical workloads
- Mastery in Object-oriented analysis and design.
- Good understanding of web and mobile application technology stack.
- Practitioners understand of Non-functional requirements of software and ability to make appropriate trade-off decisions
- Experience with CI/CD environments and automation test frameworks
- Good understanding of agile development practices
- Familiarity with production operations of large-scale systems
Experience & Qualifications
- Overall 15 to 18 years of experience of strong experience managing software projects right from inception to launch, seeing the full lifecycle, and building enterprise systems.
- B.Tech/M.Tech in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
Top Skills
Automation Test Frameworks
Ci/Cd Environments
Distributed Systems
Key-Value Document Stores
Micro-Services
Mobile Application Technology Stack
Relational Databases
Web Application Technology Stack
Am I A Good Fit?
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.
Success! Refresh the page to see how your skills align with this role.
The Company
What We Do
Founded in 2015, Zeta is a provider of next-gen credit card processing platform. Zeta’s cloud-native and fully API-enabled stack offers a comprehensive range of capabilities, including processing, issuing, lending, core banking, fraud detection, and loyalty programs. With a strong focus on technology, Zeta has over 1700+ employees and contractors, with more than 70% dedicated to technology roles. Operating across the US, UK, Middle East, and Asia, Zeta has served a global customer base of 35+ clients who have issued over 15 million cards on Zeta's platform to date. Backed by prominent investors such as Softbank Vision Fund 2 and Mastercard, Zeta has raised $280 million, at a valuation of $1.5 billion.
