Backend Engineer

About Zamp:
Zamp is a financial technology company with a bold vision of reimagining the future of finance.
Finance teams globally face manual, repetitive, and cumbersome tasks. We at Zamp want to empower them with time, calm, money, and joy, tackling harder problems. We foresee four key themes shaping the finance org of the future:
Increased Connectivity: Fragmentation across banks, partners, and platforms complicates finance. We envision a seamlessly connected future, abstracting away complexity for real-time data access.
AI Automation: Manual tasks like data transformation and reconciliation will be automated by intelligent AI agents, allowing teams to focus on strategic endeavours.
Democratised Intelligence: AI-driven insights will be universally accessible, empowering better and faster decision-making, leading to exponential growth for companies.
Evolving Financial Infrastructure: Regulatory-compliant advancements like real-time payments and blockchain technology will revolutionise financial exchange, driving efficiency and adaptation.
Zamp, founded in 2022 by our experienced leader - Amit Jain, an IIT Delhi and Stanford graduate, and industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, previously held significant roles including Managing Director at Sequoia Capital and Head of Asia Pacific at Uber. 
Our seed funding round raised ~$22Mn from Sequoia Capital, Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO, Uber), Tony Xu (CEO, Doordash), Marcelo Claure (ex-CEO, Softbank International), and other prominent angel investors.
At Zamp, we are excited about what the future holds. We are a team of dreamers, builders, product thinkers building for the new world!
Zamp is currently in the early stages of its development, providing engineers with a unique opportunity to build a new infrastructure platform from scratch. The company values first principles thinking, long-term vision, and short-term delivery. As an engineer, you will be instrumental in shaping the vision for the infrastructure platform and ensuring its scalability as the business grows. By partnering with businesses and leveraging your engineering expertise, you will contribute to Zamp’s mission of enabling success and growth.

What we are actively looking for:

• 2-4 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong track record of shipping technically robust, scalable, and extendable platforms
• Strong grasp of basic engineering principles, including Gang of Four principles, SOLID, and DRY
• Proficiency in our engineering stack: Go Lang, Redis, Kafka/Pub/Sub, Kubernetes (K8s), and job schedulers
• Proven ability to solve complex technical problems and make sound technical decisions
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Customer-obsessed mindset with a passion for simplifying complex problems in the fintech space
• Demonstrated empathy and strong teamwork skills, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment

You are likely to succeed in this role if you bring experiences in:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality, secure, software solutions that adhere to basic engineering principles such as Gang of Four principles, SOLID, and DRY
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical designs and implementation plans
• Utilizing your expertise in our engineering stack, which includes Go Lang, Redis, message queues like Kafka and Pub/Sub, Kubernetes (K8s), and job schedulers
• Shipping technically robust, scalable, and extendable platforms by applying best practices and ensuring code quality through testing, code reviews, and continuous integration
• Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and other technical issues to ensure optimal system performance
• Staying updated with the latest industry trends and technologies, and actively contributing to the improvement of our engineering practices