Principal Engineer - Frontend
Bangalore
Tachyon Foundation PnE CC – Engineering /
Full-time /
On-site
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
We are looking for an experienced frontend engineer to join the Web Platform and Experiences Team in Zeta’s Tachyon Foundations Organization as a Principal Software Engineer. The engineer holding this position will be responsible for making architectural decisions around building a scalable web application development platform through various frameworks and libraries with goal of improving the agility of developing web applications by enforcing reusability, and consistency across user interfaces with a focus on improving the developer experience
What would you do here?
- Designing and building a first of its kind web ecosystem that drives the business, engages and inspires our community of consumers and enthusiasts, and meets the functional needs of our customers and partners.
- Providing Technical Direction to the frontend engineers with the Web Platform and Experiences team
- Turn business requirements into a solid, detailed technical designs.
- Research, develop proof of concepts to validate design choices and technology choices are best fit for solving the challenges infront of the team
- Lead frontend technical development efforts independently, define software architecture, explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of enterprise scale web applications.
- Collaborate across various functional teams like design, product management and backend architects and development teams to validate prototypes and to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces which meet client requirements.
- Mentoring and supporting team members
- Defining standardization across various frontend technologies and enforce best practices interms of coding, testing and deployment and documentation.
What are we looking for?
- A minimum of 8 years of professional JavaScript software engineering experience.
- Strong command over web development technologies and practices.
- Strong command over modern frontend development and micro frontend architecture
- Strong command over Javascript / Typescript, ES6 and beyond
- Strong command over Vue/React/Angular or any web framework with internal understanding
- Strong in CSS
- Strong command over design patterns, version control, enterprise architecture and software engineering principles.
- Proven experience in designing web application architecture for multi tenant SaaS applications
- Strong command over Node JS and server side framework eg: Express JS/fastify
- Experienced with APIs and a strong understanding of HTTP and REST architecture.
- Confident working on solutions from initial wireframes, through prototyping, into building a final product
- Experienced with code building tools like webpack 4+, rollup etc.
- Experienced with web UI testing frameworks
- Experienced with build tools like Jenkins, Circle CI, Travis CI
- Good understanding of browser architecture and cross browser compatibility
- Good communication and personal skills: ability to interact and work well with members of other functional groups in a project team and a strong sense of project ownership.
- Enthusiast, Energetic, Fast learner towards new web technologies.
- Experience with backend focused languages like Go, NodeJS, Java, Python
- Have Understanding with database technology such as Postgres/MySQL
- Have understanding of different network protocols like HTTP/HTTPS, HTTP2.0, websocket etc
- Understanding about web servers (NGINX, Apache etc) and application servers(Express)
- Have Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and other cloud technologies.
- Familiarity with performance testing and optimizations.
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.
