Software Engineer, Product

Our co-founders started Zip in 2020 to address this seemingly intractable problem with a purpose-built platform that provides a simple, consumer-grade user experience. Within just a few short years, Zip created the procurement orchestration category and developed the leading solution in this $50B+ TAM space. Today, leading companies like Instacart, Anthropic, Sephora, Discover, Reddit, and Lyft rely on Zip to manage billions of dollars in spend.

We're a fast-growing team that helped scale category-defining companies like Airbnb, Meta, Salesforce, Databricks, Apple, Google, and Ramp. With a $2.2 billion valuation and $370 million in funding from Y Combinator, BOND, DST Global, and CRV, we’re focused on developing cutting-edge technology, expanding into new global markets, and—above all–driving incredible value for our customers. Join us!

Your Role

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building Zip’s core products and architecture. You will ship features that will be immediately used by our customers and will work with a tight-knit team that values open communication and cross-functional collaboration. We move quickly to solve a wide range of complex technical and product challenges. While we are an experienced team that can provide constant guidance and mentorship, we value engineers who can autonomously scope and solve difficult technical challenges.

You Will

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.

Qualifications

2+ years of software engineering experience.

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.

The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $220,000. 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.

Perks & Benefits

At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.

📈  Start-up equity

🦷  Full health, vision & dental coverage

🍽️  Catered lunches & dinners for SF employees

🚍  Commuter benefit

🚠  Team building events & happy hours

🌴  Flexible PTO

💻  Apple equipment plus home office budget

💸  401k plan

We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. 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. We look forward to hearing from you!