Multi-asset trading infrastructure for regulated currency and commodities markets
Zeal Group operates trading platforms (ZFX and Traze) built on PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB with Python backend infrastructure, serving FX and multi-asset liquidity across regulated markets. Active data infrastructure work—cloud migrations to GCP, ELT pipeline orchestration (Airflow/Dagster), unified cross-regional monitoring—indicates a shift toward centralized data governance to support their fraud-detection and risk-mitigation priorities, which dominate their challenge list.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Data, Head of Product
Zeal Group is a FinTech trading infrastructure provider operating two core platforms: ZFX and Traze, which deliver multi-asset liquidity solutions in regulated markets. The company is regulated across multiple jurisdictions (UK FCA, Seychelles FSA, South Africa FSCA, Indonesia BAPPEBTI) and maintains a global footprint across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America, with engineering based in Cyprus. With 700+ employees and decelerating hiring velocity, the company is scaling selectively—current openings lean toward sales, support, and data roles—while balancing rapid regional expansion (particularly Southeast Asia) against internal controls for fraud detection, trading-abuse prevention, and payment-channel optimization.
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB for databases; Python for backend logic; Airflow/Dagster for ELT pipelines; BigQuery and GCP for cloud data warehouse; Prometheus and Zabbix for monitoring.
Active hiring in 10 countries: Thailand, Egypt, Vietnam, Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK. Currently open roles focus on sales (16), support (9), finance (8), and data (5) functions.
PostgreSQL cluster migrations and replication; ELT pipeline orchestration; cloud-native data warehouse on GCP; unified cross-regional data monitoring; trading and risk-stack automation; fraud detection and compliance improvements.
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