Lead Backend Engineer

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Lead Backend Engineer responsible for designing, building, and owning distributed systems powering Zeta’s CRM platform. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to deliver a scalable, multichannel marketing platform. Requires deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and backend service development focused on performance, scalability, reliability, and concurrency. Lead design and development of mobile communication services (SMS, MMS, RCS). Translate business requirements into backend architectures. Architect and develop backend services and APIs. Ensure product quality through code reviews and testing. Debug and resolve production issues. Take ownership of critical platform components and provide technical leadership. Requirements include 10+ years experience with Java, Python, Ruby, or similar; strong background in distributed systems; experience with Kafka, Elasticsearch, Aerospike; familiarity with Snowflake, ClickHouse, Redshift; knowledge of Thrift, CI/CD, AWS; experience with containers, multi-tenant architectures, RESTful services, microservices, Agile, TDD, real-time streaming pipelines, and AI tools. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills required.