Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Zip

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$185,000–$260,000 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $175k
This role $222k
$103k most similar roles pay here $277k

This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$198,900 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $222k versus about $175k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Zip

Zip Co is a global buy-now, pay-later company offering flexible installment payment solutions to consumers and merchants, enabling interest-free purchases across retail, travel, and healthcare. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending

Zip currently has 19 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $165,000–$210,000 across 18 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will design and build scalable architecture, tooling, and processes to enable engineers to ship enterprise-quality software with high velocity. You will provide technical leadership by offering architectural guidance, performing low-level systems optimizations for testing, and implementing large-scale rewrites using AI-assisted codemods. Your daily work involves creating innovative frameworks to address testing challenges, driving the adoption of AI-driven tools like IDEs and test generators, and removing friction from development environments, CI pipelines, and deployment processes. You will also manage feature flag conventions and develop new release processes involving canaries and traffic replay. The role requires expertise in modern CI tools including GitHub, GitLab, Buildkite, Jenkins, and Docker to improve codebase health and optimize the platform layer for the enterprise procurement product.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build scalable architecture, tooling, and processes to enable engineers to ship high-quality software quickly.
  • Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to accelerate internal software development cycles.
  • Create innovative frameworks to address unique testing challenges and ensure feature performance and reliability.
  • Drive the adoption of AI-driven tools for IDEs, code reviews, and test generation.
  • Identify and remove friction in development environments, testing patterns, CI pipelines, and deployment processes.
  • Analyze legacy codebase patterns to build new guardrails that enforce better engineering practices.
  • Systematically improve platform-layer frameworks to optimize the overall customer experience.
  • Develop a new deployment and release process featuring canaries and traffic replay for enterprise customers.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience.
  • BS or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field such as physics or math.
  • Experience with modern CI tools including GitHub, GitLab, Buildkite, Jenkins, and Docker.
  • Ability to diagnose obstacles, debug friction, and drive development velocity.
  • Strong ownership mindset and attention to detail.

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