Hiring: Sr. Software Engineer, Financial Platform Company: Zipline Location: South San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:33:45 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, Event-Driven, Systems Design About the job Experience: •5+ years building production backend systems and owning reliable services at scale. Required Skills: •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. Qualifications: •Strong distributed-systems design skills, including thoughtful data modeling, API design, and pragmatic architectural tradeoffs. •A rigorous approach to consistency, idempotency, transactional integrity, event ordering, failure recovery, and financial correctness. •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 to partner closely with Finance and engineering teams. •Prior experience with billing, payments, ERP integrations, reconciliation, accounting systems, ledgers, or marketplace settlements is strongly preferred; it is not required •What Else You Need To Know Compensation: •$150,000 - $230,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!