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Software Engineer, Backend (All Levels)

Zip
Hybrid (San Francisco, California, United States) Full Time USD 160,000 - 280,000 p.a. Sep 18, 2026

About the Job

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...

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.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building Zip’s core products and architecture. We have a wide product surface area, covering request management, no-code workflow builders, customer-facing reporting dashboards, connections to ticketing systems, integrations with financial systems, B2B payment proc...

Key Responsibilities

Design and build highly reliable and resilient products and features.
Work closely with cross-functional product and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and ship thoughtful solutions.
Write high-quality, extensible, and maintainable code.
Design and build scalable frontend applications and components.
Design and build APIs to drive existing and new features for a web-based application.

Required Skills & Abilities

We are hiring software engineers across all levels. Most of our open roles are targeting individuals with at least 5 years experience if past work is highly relevant
BS or higher, in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g. physics or math)
Experience with web application and API development in production environments. At Zip, our stack includes Python, Javascript, React, and GraphQL.
Experience with industry-standard build, test, and deploy tools. At Zip, our stack includes Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Kibana, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Ability and interest to quickly learn new frameworks, architecture patterns, and programming languages as needed
Experience working at a small company with diverse responsibilities is a bonus, but not required.
Experience working with API connections with external systems like Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, etc is a bonus, but not required.
Exposure to AI-driven automation or interest in working with AI/ML teams to build intelligent workflows.
The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $280,000. 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.

Qualifications

Experience: 5 years experience

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