Senior Software Engineer - AI & Backend

Zuora; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Learning stipend

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

Zuora is seeking a senior full‑stack engineer to design and build high‑performance backend services and customer‑facing applications in Foster City. You’ll collaborate across Data Science, Product, UX, Platform, and Partners to productionize AI features and scale intelligent systems.

You’ll work in a hybrid environment, focus on clean, scalable code, and drive product quality while solving real revenue‑team problems with modern tech.

Qualifications

• B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of full-stack software development experience.
• Hands-on expertise in a modern programming language (Java preferred).
• Strong understanding of cloud-based APIs (AWS).
• Experience with microservices architecture (Spring Boot a plus).
• Relational databases knowledge (Postgres, SQL, AWS RDS).
• Proven debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Curiosity and passion for AI tools and new tech.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop flexible, high-performance backend services and user-facing apps.
• Build end-to-end product capabilities across frontend and backend systems.
• Collaborate with Data Science, Product, UX, Platform, and Partners to productionize models and AI features.
• Bridge experimentation and production with APIs, services, pipelines, and tooling.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve development velocity and quality.
• Write clean, maintainable code following strong engineering practices.
• Build intuitive, user-focused products solving real revenue-automation problems.
• Contribute to scalable deployment patterns for AI-enabled capabilities.

Skills

Full-stack development

Java

Python

AWS

Microservices

Relational databases

Debugging

Communication

Education

B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Spring Boot

Kafka

ReactJS

NodeJS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Postgres

AWS

Job description

Zuora is seeking a senior full‑stack engineer to design and build high‑performance backend services and customer‑facing applications in Foster City. You’ll collaborate across Data Science, Product, UX, Platform, and Partners to productionize AI features and scale intelligent systems.

You’ll work in a hybrid environment, focus on clean, scalable code, and drive product quality while solving real revenue‑team problems with modern tech.