Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Zip
Toronto
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Ownership","Communication","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team designing and building scalable architecture, tooling, and processes to enable Zip’s engineers to ship enterprise-quality software with high velocity. Lead architectural guidance, accelerate AI-driven tooling adoption, and improve CI, testing, and deployment strategies to increase velocity and code quality across hundreds of engineers.

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4 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team designing and building scalable architecture, tooling, and processes to enable Zip’s engineers to ship enterprise-quality software with high velocity. Lead architectural guidance, accelerate AI-driven tooling adoption, and improve CI, testing, and deployment strategies to increase velocity and code quality across hundreds of engineers.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead initiatives to ensure that new features are performant and reliable, creating innovative frameworks to address our unique testing challenges.
  • •Accelerate software development at Zip 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 every step, from development environments, to testing patterns, to CI pipelines, to deployment processes, to feature flag conventions.
  • •Lift product quality and boost the health of our codebase by analyzing legacy patterns that need to be sunset, and building new frameworks and guardrails to nudge engineers toward better practices.
  • •Optimize the customer experience across the product by systematically improving our frameworks, removing and preventing issues at the platform layer.

Key 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.
Experience:4+ yearsSaaSEnterprise softwareAI tooling
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Sciencenull
Skills:OwnershipCommunicationProblem-solvingLeadership
Tech Stack:GitHubGitLabBuildkiteJenkinsDockerAICodemods

Company Brief

Zip
Provides buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) and digital payment solutions for consumers and merchants across multiple markets, enabling flexible payments, consumer credit, and merchant financing services.
Industry: Lending
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
Founded: 2013
WebsiteLinkedIn