Architect, Zafin
Plus annual bonus potential
2-3 days a week in office
Product & pricing lifecycle management platform
Open for applications
Product & pricing lifecycle management platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Plus annual bonus potential
2-3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make banks more agile and efficient than ever before, enabling innovative experiences that improve the lives of customers and employees.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-On Problem Solver: You’re comfortable rolling up your sleeves to debug, code, and deliver solutions
- Tech Enthusiast: Passionate about staying ahead of tech trends, experimenting, and learning
- Effective Communicator: Skilled at explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- SaaS Mindset: Focused on scalability, reliability, and delivering exceptional user experiences
- 7+ years in:
- Designing and coding scalable, high-performance solutions
- Leading technical teams in distributed systems and full-stack development
- Building secure, cloud-native applications with technologies like Java, Spring (Spring Boot and Spring Batch) React, GraphQL, and Kafka
- Database design and optimization with PostgreSQL and NoSQL solutions
- Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) with cost-efficient design principles
- Event-driven architectures and stream processing
- 12-factor app design and headless architectures
Desirable
- 3+ years in a product-focused environment
- Experience with release automation and management including GitOps, CI/CD automation with Kustomize overlays and ArgoCD
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Chief Architect, the Architect will be at the forefront of technology modernization, blending strategy with hands-on development
- Working alongside Product Management and domain experts, you’ll design and deliver scalable solutions that directly impact our clients
- You’ll balance leadership and technical contributions, guiding engineers while writing code, troubleshooting, and creating cutting-edge solutions
- Lead and Code: Collaborate with teams of talented engineers, guiding architecture decisions while contributing directly to the codebase
- Architect Solutions: Translate business requirements into system specifications, propose high-impact design changes, and develop enterprise-grade backend applications
- Innovate and Optimize: Drive modern architectural practices like 12-factor app design, cloud-native development, and event-based systems
- Troubleshoot Complex Issues: Use your expertise to diagnose and resolve challenging technical problems
- Collaborate with Leadership: Partner with the Chief Architect and cross-functional teams to shape our modernization strategy and execute it with excellence
- Deliver Impactful Results: Work in a fast-paced, agile environment, delivering solutions that scale and perform
Our take
Zafin is a global provider of a range of digital transformation solutions for the banking sector, with a focus on relationship-based pricing solutions for enterprise grade financial institutions and banks. Clients include Canada’s big five, and further flung giants like the National Bank of Abu Dhabi.
The problem Zafin is solving is a big one for incumbent banking institutions: legacy frameworks and business practices are relatively cumbersome and byzantine in comparison to the nimbler, snappier challenger and neo banks. This means they’re losing out, particularly with the younger generations, who prefer convenience over institutional pedigree.
Zafin’s solution functions as a neat little workaround, allowing banks keen to digitally transform to dodge the hefty delays and sunk costs of retooling their systems from scratch. Banks globally are scrabbling to compete with their attractive, agile digital-first competitors, so Zafin won’t struggle to find customers. This is especially because it’s expanded to cater to neo-banks, too. With such a broad scope and a strong reputation of its own, Zafin is a confident, highly relevant company, which makes it no surprise that Nordic Capital bought it out in 2024. This acquisition will accelerate Zafin's growth and product development roadmap.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2019
$17m
LATE VC
Sep 2014
$15m
LATE VC
Total funding: $32m
Company benefits
- Flexible work arrangements - includes opportunities for hybrid work, flexible hours, flexible locations, and various types of paid leave
- Meaningful recognition - we truly value our team members’ contributions and ensure that their achievements are properly recognized and rewarded through areas such as incentive opportunities
- Ownership - we offer a stock option plan that is exclusively for employees who share our sense of purpose and create value that keeps us on our A-game
Company values
- Zealous: We are allergic to complacency. Each of us acts with energy and enthusiasm to maximize the positive impact we have on our customers, our colleagues and our company every single day.
- A-Game: We bring our personal best, always. We respond to what’s new with curiosity. We collaborate with others to discover the best possible solutions. And we keep our commitments
- Forward Thinking: Our company has always been ahead of what’s next. Our people see around corners, embrace change, challenge convention and work together to build a better world
- Inclusive: We respect, value and actively include others because diversity and inclusion result in broader perspectives, deeper insights, smarter decisions and more abundant creativity
- Nimble: We move quickly, reach for opportunity, take calculated risks and welcome feedback. This is how we achieve continuous innovation
Company HQ
Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
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Leadership
Al Karim Somji
(Boardmember & Co-Founder)Previously the President of OpCom Solutions, then CEO of Eftia OSS Solutions.
Anugopal Venugopalan
(COO & Co-Founder)Began his career as a Product Manager at Fujitsu ICIM, before moving on to serve as the Director of Pre-Sales at Eftia OSS Solutions.
Dinesh Krishnan
(Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder)Previously in management at SBI Capital Markets, before moving on to serve as Vice President of DSP Merrill Lynch.
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