Senior Backend Engineer - Integration Hub (Real-time APIs)

Zuora Community; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Generous paid time off

Parental leave

Development stipend

Volunteering & donation matching

Job summary

Zuora is seeking a Software Engineer III for the Integration Hub team in Foster City, CA. The role focuses on designing and developing high-performance integration services, event-driven systems, and extensible APIs that connect Zuora with CRM, ERP, payments, and data platforms.

You will collaborate with Product, Platform, Security, and partners to deliver reliable, scalable integrations. You will work on distributed systems, build RESTful APIs, and contribute to architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend or full‑stack software development.
• Knowledge and experience in the Payment domain.
• Strong expertise in Java (preferred) or another modern programming language.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and distributed microservices.
• Familiarity with event‑driven architectures (e.g., Kafka or similar messaging systems).
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Experience with relational databases (Postgres, SQL, AWS RDS).
• Knowledge of system reliability, observability, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable integration services, APIs, and connectors.
• Develop event-driven and microservices-based architectures to enable real-time data flows.
• Partner with Product, Platform, Security, and external partners to deliver reliable and extensible integration capabilities.
• Improve system performance, observability, and resilience across distributed systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code aligned with engineering best practices.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and drive technical improvements across the Integration Hub platform.

Skills

Java

REST APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

AWS

Kafka

Debugging

Communication

Education

B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Terraform

Job description

Zuora is seeking a Software Engineer III for the Integration Hub team in Foster City, CA. The role focuses on designing and developing high-performance integration services, event-driven systems, and extensible APIs that connect Zuora with CRM, ERP, payments, and data platforms.

You will collaborate with Product, Platform, Security, and partners to deliver reliable, scalable integrations. You will work on distributed systems, build RESTful APIs, and contribute to architectural decisions.