Senior Software Engineering Manager (Financial Platform)

Join Zipline, a pioneering company in the drone delivery industry. As the Senior Software Engineering Manager for the Financial Platform, you will be responsible for creating high-integrity financial records that enable Zipline to expand into new markets. You will lead a small team of engineers and work closely with various departments, including Finance, Commercial, Manufacturing, and Operations. Your role will involve end-to-end delivery of the Financial Platform, defining and prioritizing the product and technical roadmap, and ensuring correctness and availability for critical financial paths. You will also support manufacturing finance and be a hands-on manager, shipping code and technical designs when necessary.

• Assurer la livraison de bout en bout, la précision et la fiabilité de la plateforme financière, y compris le moteur de facturation, les règles de tarification, l'intégration des paiements, etc.
• Définir et prioriser la feuille de route produit et technique en collaboration avec les équipes Finance et Commercial, en utilisant des indicateurs mesurables d'impact commercial.
• Diriger une petite équipe d'ingénieurs, en équilibrant le recrutement et le coaching avec la responsabilité technique directe.
• Operating intensity: experience working where software must reflect messy physical operations or regulated hardware systems; able to make pragmatic tradeoffs under ambiguity and tight launch or audit deadlines
• Level fit: senior/lead engineering manager experience managing a small backend team (2–8 engineers), with demonstrated ownership of production systems and responsibility for forecasting and hiring
• Technical skills: systems design for idempotency, ordered processing, durable event storage, at‑least‑once/exactly‑once patterns, and experience integrating payments, tax engines, ERPs, and third‑party vendors
• Logistics and location: based in South San Francisco, CA. Regular on‑site presence required (hybrid with majority on‑site). Some travel to field sites or partner locations may be required (typically <20%)
• Domain knowledge: working familiarity with accounting concepts (revenue recognition, reconciliation, COGS, inventory costing, close processes) and regulatory/audit expectations for financial systems
• Must‑have traits: hands‑on technical judgment, ability to push back constructively on requirements, rigorous bias toward correctness over convenience for financial data, and commitment to building durable, auditable systems
• Experience: ~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 is required
• Outcomes mindset: track record of delivering measurable improvements (reduced close time, reconciliation automation, improved settlement accuracy), and experience defining SLOs/SLIs for correctness‑critical services