Senior Backend Engineer, Financial Platform & Billing

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Financial Platform team to turn operational activity into accurate financial records. You will bill, settle, reconcile, and record flights, deliveries, inventory movements, and partner transactions at scale.

Your work strengthens financial workflows across Finance, Commercial, Manufacturing, Operations, Data, and Marketplace Engineering, replacing manual processes with durable software and reliable APIs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems and owning reliable services at scale.
• Strong distributed-systems design with data modeling and pragmatic API design.
• Focus on consistency, idempotency, transactional integrity, and financial correctness.
• Experience translating business workflows into durable software with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services and full stack apps for financial event processing, billing, pricing, taxation, settlements, reconciliation, inventory costing, and ledger workflows.
• Create idempotent, replayable, ordered, and auditable event-driven systems tracing transactions from events to accounting.
• Translate accounting and finance workflows into scalable software with domain stakeholders.
• Integrate systems with ERP, payment providers, tax engines, banking, manufacturing, and partner platforms.
• Automate reconciliation and accounting workflows to reduce errors and speed month-end close.
• Own APIs, data models, service boundaries, observability, and runbooks for production services.
• Drive design, review code, mentor engineers, and lead projects from concept to production.

Skills

Distributed systems design

API design

Data modeling

Reliability engineering

On-call readiness

Job description

Zipline is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Financial Platform team to turn operational activity into accurate financial records. You will bill, settle, reconcile, and record flights, deliveries, inventory movements, and partner transactions at scale.

Your work strengthens financial workflows across Finance, Commercial, Manufacturing, Operations, Data, and Marketplace Engineering, replacing manual processes with durable software and reliable APIs.