2 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services and full-stack applications for financial event processing, billing, pricing, taxation, settlements, reconciliation, inventory costing, and ledger workflows.
- Build idempotent, replayable, ordered, and auditable event-driven systems connecting operational events to accounting records.
- Translate accounting, finance operations, and commercial workflows into scalable software with domain stakeholders.
- Integrate operational systems with ERP, payment, tax, banking, manufacturing, and partner platforms.
- Automate reconciliation and manual accounting workflows to reduce settlement errors and accelerate month-end close.
- Own APIs, data models, service boundaries, observability, service-health metrics, and runbooks for correctness-critical production services.
- Drive technical design, review code and designs, mentor engineers, and lead projects from concept through production.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building production backend systems and owning reliable services at scale.
- Strong distributed-systems design skills, including data modeling, API design, and pragmatic architectural tradeoffs.
- Experience with consistency, idempotency, transactional integrity, event ordering, failure recovery, and financial correctness.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to understand complex workflows and deliver practical software solutions.
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and improve reliability through observability, incident reviews, and automation.
- Regular on-site presence in South San Francisco is required.
- Prior experience with billing, payments, ERP integrations, reconciliation, accounting systems, ledgers, or marketplace settlements is strongly preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Regular on-site work in South San Francisco.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off.
- Potential equity compensation and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.
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About Zipline
Zipline designs, builds, and operates autonomous drone delivery systems for healthcare, retail, and public-sector customers. The privately held company runs end-to-end logistics—aircraft, software, and fulfillment—to deliver blood, vaccines, medicines, and consumer goods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Zipline operates across multiple continents; notable work includes Rwanda’s national blood deliveries and U.S. home delivery pilots with Walmart.