Senior Software Engineer (Financial Platform)
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- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Financial Platform team, you will build systems that turn Zipline’s operational activity into accurate, auditable financial records
- Flights, deliveries, inventory movements, manufacturing events, and partner transactions must be billed, settled, reconciled, and recorded correctly for Zipline to operate and scale globally
- Your immediate priority is strengthening the operational-event-to-financial-record workflow: creating traceable, automated paths from real-world activity through billing, settlement, reconciliation, and ERP recording
- You will work directly with Finance, Commercial, Manufacturing, Operations, Data, and Marketplace Engineering to replace manual processes with durable software
- Design and build backend services and full stack apps for financial event processing, billing, pricing, taxation, settlements, reconciliation, inventory costing, and ledger workflows
- Build idempotent, replayable, ordered, and auditable event-driven systems that trace each transaction from an operational event through accounting
- Translate accounting, finance operations, and commercial workflows into scalable software in partnership with domain stakeholders
- Integrate operational systems with our custom ERP system, payment providers, tax engines, banking systems, manufacturing systems, and partner platforms
- Automate reconciliation and manual accounting workflows to reduce settlement errors, improve financial accuracy, and accelerate month-end close
- Own reliable APIs, data models, service boundaries, observability, service-health metrics, and runbooks for correctness-critical production services
- Drive technical design, review code and designs, mentor engineers, and lead projects from concept through production
- 5+ years building production backend systems and owning reliable services at scale
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and improve reliability through observability, incident reviews, and automation
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to understand complex workflows and deliver practical software solutions
- Regular on-site presence in South San Francisco to partner closely with Finance and engineering teams
- A rigorous approach to consistency, idempotency, transactional integrity, event ordering, failure recovery, and financial correctness
- Strong distributed-systems design skills, including thoughtful data modeling, API design, and pragmatic architectural tradeoffs
- Prior experience with billing, payments, ERP integrations, reconciliation, accounting systems, ledgers, or marketplace settlements is strongly preferred; it is not required