Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform & AI Tools

ZipHQ, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Startup equity

Health, vision & dental coverage

Catered meals

Flexible PTO

Commuter benefit

Hybrid model with remote days

Parental leave

Fertility benefits

EAP

Job summary

ZipHQ, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team to design and build scalable architecture, tooling and processes that enable Zip’s engineers to ship enterprise‑quality software with high velocity.

You will ship features that will be immediately used by coworkers and drive adoption of AI‑driven tooling across the team. You will lead initiatives to improve performance and reliability, optimize CI/CD, and enable daily deployments with canaries and

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to ensure that new features are performant and reliable, creating innovative frameworks to address our unique testing challenges.
• Accelerate software development 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.
• 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

Skills

4+ years of software engineering

Ownership mindset

Attention to detail

Debugging velocity

Education

BS or higher in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Buildkite

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

ZipHQ, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team to design and build scalable architecture, tooling and processes that enable Zip’s engineers to ship enterprise‑quality software with high velocity.

You will ship features that will be immediately used by coworkers and drive adoption of AI‑driven tooling across the team. You will lead initiatives to improve performance and reliability, optimize CI/CD, and enable daily deployments with canaries and