Staff Engineer

• Own the architecture and evolution of Zip’s real-time money movement and payments platform, powering millions of transactions.
• Lead cross-team technical direction across distributed systems while embedding AI into engineering workflows and product capabilities.
• Remote-first role for US-based engineers, with optional collaboration from our NYC office.

Start your adventure with Zip 

At Zip, engineers own systems that move real money. Join Zip’s Engineering function and put your name to solving fascinating challenges at scale in an agile, test-driven development environment. If you value good domain-driven design and enjoy delivering quality work at pace, you’ll be a great fit with the squads responsible for building cloud-native software applications that serve millions of customers and process billions of dollars in payments.

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically strong Staff Engineer to lead complex, cross-domain initiatives across our platform. In this role, you will set technical direction, drive execution on ambiguous, high-impact problems, and shape the architecture of systems that are critical to our business. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will partner with engineering and product leaders, influence strategic decisions, and mentor senior engineers while raising the bar for s