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About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will design and build scalable architecture, tooling, and processes that enable Zip’s engineers to ship enterprise-quality software with high velocity. You will provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and optimize systems using techniques from low-level optimizations to large-scale rewrites with AI-assisted codemods. This role offers high leverage, with improvements impacting hundreds of engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead initiatives to ensure new features are performant and reliable, creating innovative frameworks to address 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 development environments, testing patterns, CI pipelines, deployment processes, and feature flag conventions.
- Lift product quality and codebase health by analyzing legacy patterns and building new frameworks and guardrails.
- Optimize customer experience by systematically improving frameworks and preventing platform-layer issues.
- Drive the development of a new deploy and release process, enabling daily deployments while safeguarding customers through canaries, traffic replay, and feature release bundling.
Requirements
- 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.
Skills
- AI-driven tools
- CI tools
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Buildkite
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Software architecture
- Systems optimization
- AI-assisted codemods
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- BS or higher in Computer Science or related technical field
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000-$250,000 CAD
Benefits
- Start-up equity
- 100% health, vision & dental coverage options
- Catered breakfast, lunch, & dinner
- Flexible PTO
- ClassPass membership
- Monthly commuter benefit
- Team building events & happy hours
- Home office stipend
- Phone/internet reimbursement
- Hybrid model + 5 flexible remote days per quarter
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Unlimited AI token usage
About the Company
- Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement, built for humans and agents working together.
- The world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more.
- Zip's team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.
- 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.
- Recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.
Equal Opportunity
- We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description.
- We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong.