As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will be a highly technical individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and optimizing the backend systems that power our low-latency ad platform. You will take the lead in developing scalable microservices and streaming data infrastructure to handle high-throughput workloads with minimal latency. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems and real-time data processing (ideally in the programmatic advertising domain) to ensure our systems remain highly performant and reliable. You’ll work closely with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering teams to translate business needs into technical solutions and ensure the platform is fast, fault-tolerant, and observable. This role is based in the United States and can be performed remotely, with a preference for candidates who can join us in a hybrid capacity in San Francisco, New York, or Atlanta.

Responsibilities:

• System Architecture & Development: Lead the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance backend services, including microservices and APIs, that can efficiently handle large volumes of requests with low latency. Ensure the architecture accommodates real-time bidding and personalization use cases common in AdTech.
• Streaming Data Infrastructure: Develop and maintain streaming data pipelines and event-driven systems to process and analyze continuous data flows in real time (e.g., using Apache Kafka). Optimize data ingestion and processing for timeliness and accuracy to support downstream analytics and machine-learning models.
• Performance & Reliability: Ensure the backend systems are highly performant, resilient, and stable under heavy load. Implement robust fault-tolerance mechanisms and optimize for low-latency response times in a high-concurrency environment. Leverage observability best practices (comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing) to enable engineers to quickly analyze system behavior and take proactive measures to boost performance and reliability.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams – including Product, Data Science, DevOps, and Frontend – to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Facilitate effective communication and collaborative problem-solving to deliver new features and improvements that align with our product roadmap.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership within the engineering team without direct managerial duties. Guide and mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and best practice adoption, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Technical Strategy & Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends (e.g. new AWS services, streaming frameworks, database technologies) and evaluate their potential benefit to our platform. Contribute to the technical roadmap, making build-vs-buy recommendations and driving innovation to keep our systems ahead of the curve.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building backend systems, with 3+ years in a senior or lead role (e.g. Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer) in the AdTech or a similar high-volume, low-latency domain.
• Proven track record in designing and building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems that operate at scale (e.g. handling thousands of requests per second or more).
• Expertise in microservices architecture and distributed system design, including experience decomposing monoliths or building greenfield microservices with well-defined APIs.
• Proficiency in Java and Go for backend development, and experience with Python for scripting, automation, or data processing tasks.
• Hands-on experience with streaming data technologies and event-driven frameworks, such as Apache Kafka (or AWS Kinesis), and possibly stream processing frameworks (Spark Streaming, Flink, or similar, experience with Apache Kafka is highly desired).
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and deploying services in a cloud-native environment. Familiarity with AWS components like EC2, S3, Lambda, SNS/SQS, etc., and ability to design cost-effective, performant cloud architectures.
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases for high-volume applications. Comfortable with technologies like PostgreSQL/MySQL as well as key-value or wide-column stores (e.g. DynamoDB, Cassandra, Redis) for caching and fast lookups.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy microservices reliably.
• Deep understanding of system observability and monitoring – experience instrumenting applications and using monitoring/logging tools to ensure visibility into system performance (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack or similar).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to cross-functional team members and stakeholders. Proven collaboration skills in an agile development environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Domain Expertise: Deep knowledge of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, including how Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs), Supply-Side Platforms (SSPs), ad exchanges, and real-time bidding (RTB) work together. Prior experience building or optimizing components of a DSP or ad server is a strong plus.
• High-Scale Data Processing: Experience designing systems that operate at extreme scale, such as real-time auction systems or high-frequency trading platforms, and optimizing algorithms for latency and throughput (e.g. understanding of auction theory or bidding optimization strategies).
• Data Pipelines & Analytics: Familiarity with big data processing and analytics pipelines (Spark, Hadoop, or columnar data stores) for batch and streaming workloads. Experience with data warehousing or real-time analytics databases (e.g. Druid, ClickHouse) is a plus.
• Advanced Performance Tuning: Demonstrated experience in performance profiling and optimization (e.g. JVM tuning, concurrency, GC optimization, network I/O) in large-scale Java or Go applications.
• Leadership in the Tech Community: A track record of contributing to open-source projects, technical publications, or speaking at industry conferences. Keeping on top of emerging trends and sharing knowledge both inside and outside the organization.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s or Ph.D. a plus), with strong foundations in algorithms and data structures.

Company Profile:

Zeta Global is a NYSE listed data-powered marketing technology company with a heritage of innovation and industry leadership. Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Inc and Pepsi-Cola, the Company combines the industry’s 3rd largest proprietary data set (2.4B+ identities) with Artificial Intelligence to unlock consumer intent, personalize experiences and help our clients drive business growth.

Our technology runs on the Zeta Marketing Platform, which powers ‘end to end’ marketing programs for some of the world’s leading brands. With expertise encompassing all digital marketing channels – Email, Display, Social, Search and Mobile – Zeta orchestrates acquisition and engagement programs that deliver results that are scalable, repeatable and sustainable.

Zeta Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ancestry, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.

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The Role:

We are looking for a Staff Product Manager for the Merchant Experience Platform within our Omnichannel Fulfillment division. As the PM for this critical platform, you will define and deliver a world-class, seamless merchant experience across the entire journey, from self-serve onboarding and platform configurations to transparent billing and effortless payments. Your mission is to build a fast, intuitive, and reliable platform that serves as the single source of truth for our merchants and powers their success across our logistics ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

• Platform Vision & Strategy: Define the multi-year roadmap for the Merchant Experience Platform, encompassing onboarding, integrations, configuration, billing, and payments.
• End-to-End Merchant Journey: Own the experience flow from a merchant's first interaction, through system configuration and data setup, to their ongoing financial transactions and reporting.
• Merchant System Integration Strategy: Drive the strategy for seamlessly integrating with external merchant technologies, including ERP systems (like NetSuite) and e-commerce platforms, ensuring robust data exchange and workflow integrity.
• Billing & Payments Automation: Drive the strategy and execution for automated payment solutions, revenue recognition, and reliable financial reporting.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Engineering, Finance, Operations, and Sales to ensure a friction-less merchant journey and accurate financial outcomes.
• Product Leadership & Mentorship: Act as a subject matter expert who coaches and mentors Senior and IC PMs on complex systems thinking, financial modeling, and platform architecture design.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience: 8+ years in Product Management, preferably within Logistics Tech, SaaS Integrations, Fintech.
• Technical Proficiency: Deep understanding of APIs, ERP integrations, and financial reconciliation workflows.
• Systems Thinking: You can map out how a physical action in a warehouse triggers reconciliation with a merchant system or triggers a financial event for billing.
• Analytical Rigor: Proven ability to conduct deep quantitative analysis, create complex data models, and use data to diagnose root causes and quantify business impact.
• Problem-Solving Grit: Logistics is messy. You need the ability to find elegant, automated solutions for edge cases and "broken" data.
• Communication: The ability to explain complex financial logic to a software engineer and high-level business impact to a CFO.
• Demonstrated ability to drive results in complex, regulated industries (Logistics, Fintech, Healthcare, etc.).
• Experience owning a product roadmap and delivering measurable business impact (e.g., revenue growth, efficiency gains).

Why This Challenge Matters:

The Merchant Experience Platform is the gateway to Flexport's logistics ecosystem. By owning the entire journey—from an effortless onboarding and configuration process to reliable, transparent billing and payments—you are directly impacting Flexport’s bottom line, driving merchant adoption, and removing the friction that holds global trade back.

Bonus Points if you have:

• Experience with NetSuite, Stripe, or high-volume transactional billing systems.

Why Flexport:

At Flexport, we’re building the future of global trade. Our product team is at the heart of this transformation, driving solutions that have a direct impact on our customers and the logistics industry. We foster a culture of innovation, inclusivity, and continuous learning, giving you the opportunity to work on meaningful, impactful projects while supporting your professional growth.

What's in it for you?

• An opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing companies, where you’ll have the chance to create a global impact while being a part of a thriving multinational environment
• Competitive salary and equity options
• Daily catered lunches, breakfast, snacks and soft drinks available in our office on daily basis
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
• Equity program: every team member becomes a shareholder, aligning our success with yours. As a private company in a multi-trillion dollar industry, you have a direct stake in our collective growth and success.
• Collaborative, inclusive, and diverse work culture.

Flexport is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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About the role

We're looking for a Product Manager to drive the product strategy for Screen, HackerRank's core hiring platform. This is a high-impact role where you'll shape how companies evaluate technical talent at scale, working at the cutting edge of AI-powered assessment.

You'll own the future of candidate evaluation—defining how we leverage AI to assess technical skills, problem-solving ability, and collaboration in ways that are both innovative and trustworthy. This is cutting-edge AI evaluation work that's defining new standards for the industry.

The platform operates at significant scale and carries a meaningful technical legacy, serving customers of various sizes, shapes, and needs—from startups running a handful of interviews to enterprises processing thousands of assessments. This isn't about greenfield product work; it's about making sophisticated decisions in a constrained environment and delivering measurable impact.

The role comes with high visibility across the organization, including direct exposure to our CEO, and requires close collaboration with platform teams working on integrity, IDE infrastructure, and AI capabilities.

What you'll do

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Screen, making critical decisions about how we evolve our core evaluation platform while balancing innovation with platform stability
• Drive AI-first evaluation capabilities, defining what signals matter, how AI can surface insights that human reviewers miss, and how to make evaluation both more effective and more fair
• Navigate technical complexity at scale, working deeply with a team of X engineers (including X staff engineers) and an Engineering Manager to balance technical constraints with user needs
• Balance competing needs across multiple personas—recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates—designing solutions that work across their often conflicting requirements
• Guide customers through platform evolution, spending time understanding their hiring challenges, managing migrations to new experiences, and ensuring we solve real problems
• Collaborate across teams and time zones, working with multiple product and platform teams, and often serving as the bridge between technical complexity and customer value
• Lead with visibility and impact, working directly with senior leadership and driving cross-functional initiatives that shape the future of technical hiring

Who you are

• You've built B2B SaaS products at scale where you balanced competing needs across different user personas and made tradeoffs that worked for multiple stakeholders
• You're comfortable with complex, legacy systems and don't need every problem to be new or sexy—you can get excited about intricate technical challenges and the hard work of improving something that already exists at scale
• You understand the complexity of serving diverse customers—from small teams to large enterprises—and can design solutions that flex across this diversity rather than forcing one-size-fits-all approaches
• You have strong judgment under pressure and can go deep technically when needed, build empathy across different personas, and synthesize complex constraints into clear decisions
• You care deeply about customers and see direct customer engagement not as a chore but as essential input for building the right thing

Even better if you have

• Experience working with legacy systems and driving incremental transformation in constrained environments
• Background in assessment, evaluation, or EdTech products
• Experience with AI/ML product development or integrating AI capabilities into existing platforms
• Track record of managing complex platform migrations while maintaining customer satisfaction

You wil thrive in this role if you

• You're energized by complexity, not overwhelmed by it. The challenge of navigating a legacy platform serving diverse customers excites you rather than frustrates you.
• You're comfortable working globally. This role requires collaboration across multiple time zones, including occasional meetings outside standard hours, and you see this as an opportunity rather than a burden.
• You want high visibility and impact. You're ready to work with senior leadership, including our CEO, and drive decisions that shape how companies around the world hire technical talent.
• You're passionate about the cutting edge of AI evaluation work. You want to be at the forefront of defining how AI changes candidate assessment and you're excited to push boundaries while maintaining trust and fairness.
• You balance deep technical engagement with customer empathy. You can dive into technical constraints with staff engineers one hour and guide a customer through a migration the next, finding energy in both.

Role Overview

This is a hands-on, cross-functional role supporting the Managing Director, India in running the day-to-day operational, financial, compliance, and administrative functions of Stronghold Investment Management's India entity. You'll work across Finance, Tax & Transfer Pricing, HR & Labour Compliance, Legal & Corporate Secretarial, IT & Infrastructure, and General Office Administration. Not as a specialist in each, but as the person who ensures nothing falls through the cracks.

You'll coordinate between the Bangalore operations team and US executive leadership, external advisors, and banking and vendor partners, translating priorities into execution and keeping stakeholders aligned.

We're looking for a self-starter with 4 to 7 years of experience who thrives in ambiguity, takes initiative without waiting to be told, and has a bias for improving how things work. Experience with AI tools, particularly Claude, Claude Code, or Cowork, is expected.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Initiatives: Support the MD in establishing and enhancing India operations. Drive implementation of scalable processes leveraging industry best practices.
• Operational Excellence: Manage and improve day-to-day processes across site operations, administration, and business management. Identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement.
• Governance & Compliance: Coordinate Transfer Pricing compliance, regulatory filings, and Board Meeting logistics. Maintain governance structures and prepare business reports and dashboards for leadership review.
• Financial Management: Support the monthly financial reporting cycle, annual budget preparation, and Power BI dashboard maintenance for the India entity. Help implement financial controls for budgetary discipline.
• Business Operations & Office Management: Manage Bangalore office facilities and daily operations. Coordinate with external advisors and review vendor contracts for cost-effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of experience in business operations, office management, or a similar cross-functional role, preferably in technology, financial services, or fintech.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage multiple workstreams, and drive tasks to completion with minimal supervision.
• Strong working knowledge across at least two of: finance/accounting, compliance, HR operations, or vendor/office management.
• Comfortable working with senior leadership and external stakeholders; strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in reporting and data tools (Excel, Power BI, or similar) with the ability to build dashboards and prepare executive-level summaries.
• Experience using AI tools in a professional context, particularly Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting senior executives or working in a chief of staff or business operations capacity.
• Exposure to GCC (Global Capability Centre) setup or scaling operations for a US-headquartered company.
• Familiarity with Indian regulatory and compliance frameworks (transfer pricing, labour law, corporate secretarial).
• Certification in Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodologies.
• MBA or postgraduate degree in Business Administration, Operations, or a related field.