Sr. Software Engineer, Financial Platform

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Sr. Software Engineer, Financial Platform in USA

Zipline
Full time
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USA
09/04/2026
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South San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Design and build backend services and full-stack applications for financial event processing, billing, pricing, taxation, settlements, reconciliation, inventory costing, and ledger workflows.
Build idempotent, replayable, ordered, and auditable event-driven systems connecting operational events to accounting records.
Translate accounting, finance operations, and commercial workflows into scalable software with domain stakeholders.
Integrate operational systems with ERP, payment, tax, banking, manufacturing, and partner platforms.
Automate reconciliation and manual accounting workflows to reduce settlement errors and accelerate month-end close.
Own 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.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building production backend systems and owning reliable services at scale.
Strong distributed-systems design skills, including data modeling, API design, and pragmatic architectural tradeoffs.
Experience with consistency, idempotency, transactional integrity, event ordering, failure recovery, and financial correctness.
Experience working directly with business stakeholders to understand complex workflows and deliver practical software solutions.
Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and improve reliability through observability, incident reviews, and automation.
Regular on-site presence in South San Francisco is required.
Prior experience with billing, payments, ERP integrations, reconciliation, accounting systems, ledgers, or marketplace settlements is strongly preferred but not required.

Benefits

Regular on-site work in South San Francisco.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Paid time off.
Potential equity compensation and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.

Salary: $150k - $230k/yr

Zipline

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