ZUORA IS HIRING

Here at Zuora we pride ourselves on having the best customers, the most impressive investors, the most comprehensive ecosystem, and the only true SaaS-based application leading the subscription economy. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor with a company that is poised for success, and set on a trajectory for huge growth. Zuora China is building a world-class organization, and carries out critical work in Research & Development, Quality Engineering, Program Management, and Global Support in order to better meet the increasing demand of a fast-growing customer base.

Are you interested in solving complex business problems with cutting edge technologies, designing generic solutions for wide-ranging business requirements and building mission-critical SaaS systems to be used by large Enterprise companies? Are you inspired to see how Zuora is innovating and powering Subscription Economy?

Come and join Zuora Engineering!

Responsibilities

• Working with product management and other engineering teams to design, build and operate Zuora’s next generation products, including Order/Subscriptions, Billing, Payments, Finance and Revenue products.
• Design and develop highly flexible common components and APIs that enable product customizability and extensibility.
• Understand the platform needs of other functional areas, and provide design and development guidance as required.
• Understand the needs of users and build products that are intuitive and easy to use.
• Advocate for best practices to produce reliable, maintainable and fault tolerant software.
• Own system architecture, performance and scalability.
• Mentor other engineers and help build a high performance engineering team.
• Provide thought leadership in Zuora’s transition to a micro-service and cloud based architecture.

• Raise the bar on engineering practices and code quality.   

About You:

• Love solving hard problems and building solid solutions.
• Self motivated, takes ownership to drive tasks to completion.
• Curious and eager to learn, experiment and try new things.
• A leader and influencer that has the respect of team members because of your knowledge and expertise.
• Disciplined self-starter, able to be highly productive both working alone and in close collaboration within an agile development team.

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or relevant education/experience.  
• Excellent verbal and written English communication.
• 8+ years software development experience specializing in backend, platform, or infrastructure development in Java, C++ or another object oriented language  
• Strong database knowledge. Knows SQL and NoSQL as well as when to use each.
• Have designed and built web applications and possess expertise in related concepts like web services, SOA, RPC (REST, gRPC, Thrift) and API design.
• Good knowledge of common algorithms, data structures and design patterns.
• Can take ambiguous requirements in complex domains and distill them down into actionable tasks.
• Have great ideas, and can run with them to produce great results.     

Preferred Qualifications 

• Hands-on experience in cloud and devops technologies (Docker, Terraform, AWS services) 
• Knows how to implement and operate performant and scalable distributed systems, particularly a SaaS product.
• Track record to delivering complex, cross team initiatives.
• Exposure to functional programming paradigms.
• Familiarity with web applications and UI concepts like AJAX, SPA, sessions etc.

Zuora is looking for an experienced and entrepreneurial Program Management Lead to join the Global PMO supporting the Technology team. The technology program management office owns the delivery of complex, cross cutting initiatives in the technology organization. Program managers track program deliverables across multiple teams and use foundational project management principles to create operating models for highly complex programs. The lead should be a highly motivated, strategic thinker who can guide, inspire, coach, and mentor our engineering teams who is also comfortable getting their hands dirty. The Program Management Lead must be extremely organized, with solid strategic planning, resource allocation and outcome-based measurement skills. They must be able to balance competing priorities, have demonstrated process development experience and approach challenges with flexibility and a positive approach. 

The ideal candidate has a love for the craft of program management in a servant leader role and can operate in a portfolio management role, program management role, pmo leader role and process delivery role with the ability to identify the best role to suit the initiative, team or situation and the flexibility to adjust in real time. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Actively drive the enhancement of project management processes, tooling and templates to improve the operating model maturity of a scaling product ecosystem and transforming technology organization.
• Drive programs through all phases of the Program Management Lifecycle, including functional and technical design, quality strategy definition, estimation, planning, tracking, risk management, release readiness, documentation, material program changes, key decisions and cross team dependencies.
• Create an operating model to tap into multiple scrum team activities to track committed work (projects, features, stories, milestones) and release content without being in the day to day activities of the team.
• Proactively work to remove obstacles and enable forward momentum and progress. Identify and manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities.
• Provide objective, transparent, accurate, timely status reports and program summaries to  stakeholders including scope/schedule/quality risks, project status, resource allocation and customer impact.
• Perform project evaluations and transform lessons learned to actionable improvements.

Experience and Qualifications

• Direct work experience in a technical program management capacity to drive large, complex technical initiatives including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Extensive experience driving change and fostering a continuous process improvement culture; previous experience with process development, process transformation leadership with a proven track record of rolling out program management concepts to teams; via templates, processes, tooling, methodologies.
• Solid project management background in commercial software development and delivery; no less than 8 years experience as a project management professional with at least 3 years experience as Scrum Master and at least 2 years operating in a micro-service architecture and a micro-service software development environment.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or experience in a related technical discipline.
• Ability to crisply articulate project status at executive level and team level both verbally and with program dashboards, reports and communication.
• Ability to identify and analyze issues and summarize problem statements and proactively work across the organization to drive issues to closure. 
• Ability to work independently; self-motivated; self-starter. Can operate with some level of ambiguity; knows when to dig in, do research, pull information together to drive issues to ground. 
• Extensive planning experience of complex systems; can demonstrate deep understanding of incremental delivery models. 
• Excellent project planning skills; can drive teams through all stages of project initiation, concept, high level planning, detail estimation, etc to build project implementation and delivery plans.
• Proven track record of managing multiple major and concurrent projects/programs executed through multiple geographic locations involving cross functional teams
• Detail oriented; strives for excellence of quality and accuracy of data in all deliverables.
• Strong teamwork; team building skills and ability to influence; builds relationships/community within teams.
• High energy; desire to constantly learn; thrives in a rapidly changing environment.
• Direct experience working with software engineering leadership, technical teams and individual contributors 
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle for enterprise commercial software delivery; experience in release management; change control and quality assurance processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience managing a small team and growing team members in their career.

Preferred Qualifications

• JIRA & Confluence experience 
• OKR Experience 
• PMP desired (if not certified; plan/desire to be certified), CSM desired
• Experience with micro service/SOA architecture, AWS or Public cloud experience; 
• Billing, Payment, Commerce, Platform, DevOps system/app experience
• Prior experience as a software developer or quality assurance engineer a plus
• Experience leading organizational transformation initiatives