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 that trace transactions from operational events through accounting.
- Translate accounting, finance operations, and commercial workflows into scalable software with domain stakeholders.
- Integrate operational systems with ERP, payment providers, tax engines, banking systems, manufacturing systems, and partner platforms.
- Automate reconciliation and manual accounting workflows to reduce settlement errors and improve financial accuracy.
- 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 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 architectural tradeoffs.
- Experience with consistency, idempotency, transactional integrity, event ordering, failure recovery, and financial correctness.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate complex workflows into 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.
- 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 is required.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
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About Zipline
Zipline was founded to create the first logistics system that serves all humans equally. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy, Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest automated delivery system. Zipline serves tens of millions of people around the world and is making good on the promise of building an equitable and more resilient global supply chain. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart and enabling leading healthcare providers to bring care into the home in the United States, Zipline is transforming the way goods move. By transitioning to clean, electric, instant logistics, we can decarbonize delivery, decrease road congestion, and reduce fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access for billions of people. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Zipline is inspiring people, governments, and businesses to imagine what is possible when goods can move as seamlessly as information. To join the team, check out our career page: https://flyzipline.com/careers/