Senior Software Engineer (Financial Platform)

Zipline, a pioneering company in the drone delivery industry. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Financial Platform team, you will play a crucial role in building systems that transform operational activity into accurate and auditable financial records. Your work will directly impact Zipline's ability to operate and scale globally. You will collaborate with various teams, design and build backend services and full stack apps, and automate reconciliation and manual accounting workflows.

Responsibilities

• This position requires a strong background in building production backend systems, experience working with business stakeholders, and a rigorous approach to financial correctness.
• Renforcer le flux de travail de l'événement opérationnel à l'enregistrement financier en créant des chemins automatisés et traçables.
• Concevoir et construire des services backend et des applications full stack pour le traitement des événements financiers, la facturation, la tarification, la taxation, les règlements, la réconciliation.
• Automatiser la réconciliation et les flux de travail comptables manuels pour réduire les erreurs de règlement, améliorer l'exactitude financière et accélérer la clôture de fin de mois.
• 5+ years building production backend systems and owning reliable services at scale
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• Strong distributed-systems design skills, including thoughtful data modeling, API design, and pragmatic architectural tradeoffs

Preferred

• Prior experience with billing, payments, ERP integrations, reconciliation, accounting systems, ledgers, or marketplace settlements is strongly preferred; it is not required

Pay

USD 150,000 - 230,000