Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Zip; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Start-up equity

hybrid model + flexible remote days

Health, vision & dental coverage

Job summary

Zip is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team in San Francisco, CA. You will design scalable architectures and tooling that empower Zip’s engineers to ship enterprise-grade software quickly and reliably.

You will mentor peers, lead architectural guidance, and push canaries, traffic replay, and robust deployment practices to enable daily releases for enterprise customers. This role emphasizes ownership and practical problem solving.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• BS or higher in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience with CI tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Buildkite, Jenkins, and Docker.
• Attention to detail with a strong ownership mindset.
• Ability to diagnose obstacles, debug friction, and drive velocity.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to ensure new features are performant and reliable.
• Architect and ship scalable frameworks and tooling to accelerate development.
• Drive adoption of AI-driven tools and codemods to improve velocity.
• Improve product quality by challenging legacy patterns and building guardrails.

Skills

Software engineering

Ownership mindset

Debugging

Velocity improvement

Education

BS or higher in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Buildkite

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

About Zip

Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement — built for humans and agents working together. By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before.

The world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more. Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend. Zip’s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.

Backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.

Your Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will be responsible for designing and building scalable architecture, tooling and processes that enable Zip’s engineers to ship enterprise-quality software with high velocity. You will play a technical leadership role by providing design and architectural guidance to accelerate software development at Zip using techniques ranging from low-level systems optimizations (for speeding up tests), to large-scale rewrites using AI-assisted codemods.

You will ship features that will be immediately used by your coworkers who will feel the impact of your work first‑hand and share feedback instantly. On this team, we operate from a position of high leverage, and the impact of every small improvement gets multiplied across the 100s of engineers we support. While we are an experienced team that can provide constant guidance and mentorship, we value engineers who can autonomously scope and solve difficult technical challenges.

You Will

• Lead initiatives to ensure that new features are performant and reliable, creating innovative frameworks to address our unique testing challenges.
• Accelerate software development at Zip by driving adoption of AI‑driven tools, from IDEs to code reviews to test generators.
• Drive velocity and productivity by diagnosing and removing friction in every step, from development environments, to testing patterns, to CI pipelines, to deployment processes, to feature flag conventions.
• Lift product quality and boost the health of our codebase by analyzing legacy patterns that need to be sunset, and building new frameworks and guardrails to nudge engineers toward better practices.
• Optimize the customer experience across the product by systematically improving our frameworks, removing and preventing issues at the platform layer.
• Drive the development of a new deploy and release process, enabling daily deployments while safeguarding customers from bugs and incidents through canaries, traffic replay, and bundling feature releases for Enterprise customers

Your Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• BS or higher, in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g. physics or math).
• Experience with modern CI tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Buildkite, Jenkins, and Docker.
• Attention to detail with a strong ownership mindset.
• Ability to diagnose obstacles, debug friction, and drive velocity.

The salary range for this role is $185,000 - $260,000. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of job‑related factors that may include location, relevant experience, education, or particular skills and expertise.

Perks & Benefits

At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.

• Start‑up equity
• 100% health, vision & dental coverage options
• Catered breakfast, lunch, & dinner
• Flexible PTO
• ClassPass membership
• Monthly commuter benefit
• Team building events & happy hours
• Home office stipend
• Phone/internet reimbursement
• Hybrid model + 5 flexible remote days per quarter
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Unlimited AI token usage

We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!