Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Financial Platform
AI summary of the role
Lead the Financial Platform team at Zipline, turning operational activity (flights, deliveries, manufacturing) into auditable, high-integrity financial records.
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What you’ll do
- Own end-to-end delivery, correctness, and reliability for the Financial Platform including billing engine, pricing rules, tax calculation, payments integration, refunds/credits, partner settlement, reconciliation services, and ledger/financial-event systems.
- Define and prioritize the product and technical roadmap with Finance and Commercial, using measurable business impact to set priorities.
- Deliver measurable outcomes: reduce manual reconciliation effort, compress month-end close, and raise automated settlement accuracy toward >99.9% target.
- Set and own correctness and availability SLOs/SLIs for critical financial paths (e.g., payment/settlement critical paths >=99.95% availability), lead incident response, and drive post-incident fixes.
What you’ll bring
- ~6+ years building backend services and 4+ years managing engineers (or equivalent).
- Direct experience building billing, reconciliation, ledger systems, marketplace settlement, ERP integrations, or equivalent financial infrastructure.
- Working familiarity with accounting concepts (revenue recognition, reconciliation, COGS, inventory costing, close processes) and regulatory/audit expectations.
- Systems design for idempotency, ordered processing, durable event storage, at-least-once/exactly-once patterns, and experience integrating payments, tax engines, ERPs.
Technologies
billing engine · payments integration · ERP integration · ledger systems · reconciliation services · idempotent processing · event-driven architecture · SLOs/SLIs · inventory costing
About Zipline
Designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous drone delivery networks for healthcare systems, governments, retailers, and restaurants, combining full-stack aircraft, infrastructure, and logistics software.
Private Late · 500–1000 people
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transactions) into auditable, high‑integrity financial records that enable Zipline to scale into new markets. This team owns billing, settlements, ledgers, reconciliation, inventory costing, ERP integrations, and the financial‑event model that downstream reporting, accounting, and controls depend on. Your work prevents billing errors, ensures Finance can close the books reliably, supports regulatory and audit readiness, and directly impacts field launches, partner payments, and operational scale. This role reports to the Head of Application Software, leads a small team (2–8 engineers), and partners closely with Finance, Commercial, Manufacturing, Operations (field sites), Data, and Platform Engineering. You will operate inside a hardware and regulated aviation environment where financial correctness is mission‑critical. What You'll Do Own end‑to‑end delivery, correctness, and
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