Senior Software Engineer

Sierra Ventures; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage

Job summary

Zeta Global, based in London, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership in architecting and developing the Addressability part of the Zeta Marketing Platform. The role includes collaborating with teams to shape the roadmap for a state-of-the-art multichannel marketing solution. Key requirements include 4 years in software engineering, fluency in Scala/Java, and experience with AWS and distributed data systems. Zeta offers excellent medical coverage and fosters a diverse workplace culture.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience/fluency in Scala or Java.
• Experience working with container-based solutions.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining real-time infrastructure.
• Designing and maintaining services for data processing.
• Working with Product Managers to design data products.

Skills

Scala/Java

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Cloud services (AWS)

Container-based solutions

Terraform

Distributed data processing

Agile development

Interpersonal skills

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science

Tools

ZIO

Akka

Play Framework

Job description

About Zeta Global

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI‑Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer you will provide technical leadership to the group responsible for architecting, developing, and owning the Addressability part of the Zeta Marketing Platform. You will collaborate with Engineers, Product Managers and Executives across the organization to develop a roadmap and subsequent projects to build the next generation comprehensive, multichannel marketing solution that unifies and unlocks data across digital touch points, driving return on marketing investment. The position will be responsible for the design and development of real‑time systems of The Zeta Marketing Platform and LiveIntent, working on technology that enables access to core of Identity Solutions. You will mentor an organization of developers through your knowledge sharing sessions that will guide and strengthen their knowledge. This is a hybrid role based out of our London, UK office.

Responsibilities

• Building, refining, tuning, and maintaining our real‑time infrastructure
• Designing, developing and maintaining services responsible for data collection and real‑time data processing
• Working with Product Managers to design and build data products
• Working with our DevOps team to scale and optimize our infrastructure
• Participating in architecture discussions, influencing the roadmap, taking ownership and responsibility over new projects
• Participating in on‑call rotation (be available by phone or email in case something goes wrong)

Desired Characteristics

• Minimum 4 years of software engineering experience
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science (or related field) with English primary instruction (strongly desired)
• 2+ years of experience/fluency in Scala/Java
• Proficient with relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience working with container‑based solutions
• Experience using libraries such as ZIO, Akka, Play Framework
• Experience with cloud services (AWS) at scale
• Experience with Terraform
• Proven long‑term enthusiasm for distributed data processing at scale and eagerness to learn new things
• Expertise in designing and architecting distributed low‑latency and scalable cloud solutions
• Exposure to the full software development lifecycle from inception to production and monitoring
• Experience in Advertising Attribution domain (plus)
• Experience in agile software development processes
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Benefits & Perks

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage

People & Culture at Zeta

Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive workplace culture of trust and belonging where everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work.

EEO Statement

Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.