Zipline
Sr. Software Engineer, Financial Platform
$150K–$230K
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years building production backend systems and owning reliable services at scale.
About the job
Build financial platform software that converts Zipline’s operational activity into accurate, auditable billing, settlement, reconciliation, and accounting records.
What you'll do
- Build backend services and full-stack apps for financial event processing, billing, pricing, tax, settlements, reconciliation, inventory costing, and ledger workflows.
- Integrate operational systems with ERP, payment, tax, banking, manufacturing, and partner platforms; automate reconciliation and accounting processes.
- Own production service reliability and lead technical design, code reviews, mentoring, and projects through production.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building production backend systems and owning reliable services at scale.
- Strong distributed-systems design skills, including data modeling, API design, and architectural tradeoffs.
- Rigorous approach to consistency, idempotency, transactional integrity, event ordering, failure recovery, and financial correctness.
- Work directly with business stakeholders; participate in an on-call rotation; maintain regular on-site presence in South San Francisco.
Nice to have
- Prior experience with billing, payments, ERP integrations, reconciliation, accounting systems, ledgers, or marketplace settlements.
Pay
USD $150,000 - $230,000 starting cash range (target starting cash; not specified as base salary or total pay)
Tools
ERP
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