Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

The role

You will design and build scalable architecture, tooling, and processes to enable engineers to ship software with high velocity. You will provide technical leadership through design guidance, system optimizations, and AI-assisted codemods.

What you will do

• Lead initiatives to ensure new features are performant and reliable
• Create innovative frameworks to address testing challenges
• Drive adoption of AI-driven tools from IDEs to code reviews and test generators
• Diagnose and remove friction in development environments, testing patterns, CI pipelines, deployment processes, and feature flag conventions
• Analyze legacy patterns to sunset them and build new frameworks and guardrails
• Optimize customer experience by improving frameworks and preventing issues at the platform layer
• Drive development of a new deploy and release process using canaries, traffic replay, and bundling feature releases

Required qualifications

• 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

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
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

About the company

Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement. The company is backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator.