Senior Software Engineer, Financial Platform - Billing

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline, the world’s leading drone-delivery company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Financial Platform team in South San Francisco to turn operational activity into accurate financial records.

You will own event-to-financial workflows, collaborate with Finance, Operations, and Engineering, build reliable APIs, and mentor others while delivering scalable solutions for billing, settlements, and ERP integration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems.
• Strong distributed-systems design, API design and data modeling.
• Rigorous approach to consistency, idempotency, transactional integrity.
• Experience working with business stakeholders to implement workflows.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations.
• Regular on-site presence in South San Francisco.
• Experience with billing, ERP integrations, reconciliation or settlements preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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 tracing transactions from operational events through accounting.
• Translate accounting, finance operations, and commercial workflows into scalable software with domain stakeholders.
• Integrate operational systems with our ERP, payment providers, tax engines, banking systems, manufacturing systems, and partner platforms.
• Automate reconciliation and manual accounting workflows to reduce errors and speed month-end close.
• Own reliable APIs, data models, service boundaries, observability, health metrics, and runbooks for critical production services.
• Drive technical design, review code, mentor engineers, and lead projects from concept through production.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

API design

Data modeling

Financial software

Tools

ERP systems

Billing platforms

Tax engines

Job description

Zipline, the world’s leading drone-delivery company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Financial Platform team in South San Francisco to turn operational activity into accurate financial records.

You will own event-to-financial workflows, collaborate with Finance, Operations, and Engineering, build reliable APIs, and mentor others while delivering scalable solutions for billing, settlements, and ERP integration.