Senior Software Engineer, Backend

The posting, as Zip Co Limited wrote it

• Build the payments infrastructure that enables Zip customers to transact securely and seamlessly at scale.
• Bring deep backend and payments expertise, strong technical ownership, and practical AI fluency to solve complex engineering challenges.
• Remote-first opportunity for US-based employees with the option to work in-person out of our Manhattan office

Start your adventure with Zip

Join Zip’s Engineering team and help build the payments infrastructure that powers how our customers transact.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll design and build the systems behind card issuing, transaction processing, and settlement across Zip’s physical and virtual card experiences. You’ll work across our payments ecosystem, including integrations with Stripe Issuing and banking partners, building reliable services that support high volumes of transactions and mission-critical financial workflows.

This is a hands-on builder role where you’ll own complex technical problems from design through production, contribute to architectural direction, and partner closely with Product, Engineering and Infrastructure. You’ll also use AI throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering quality, speed and problem-solving, while identifying new opportunities to apply AI responsibly across engineering workflows.

Interesting Problems You’ll Get to Solve

• Build and evolve scalable card issuing, transaction processing and settlement systems that power critical Zip customer experiences.
• Design reliable integrations across Stripe, banking partners and Zip’s internal platforms, ensuring transactions move securely and accurately at scale.
• Own complex technical initiatives from design through production, making thoughtful tradeoffs across customer experience, reliability, security and delivery speed.
• Contribute to the architecture of event-driven, distributed backend systems using .NET, C#, Azure, DDD and CQRS.
• Build resilient payment systems that operate effectively within evolving regulatory, compliance and risk requirements.
• Improve the reliability, observability and performance of production systems, identifying issues early and strengthening how Zip responds when they occur.
• Partner with Product, Engineering and Infrastructure to navigate technical tradeoffs, de-risk unknowns and deliver solutions that support customer and business outcomes.
• Raise engineering quality through thoughtful design and code reviews, automated testing, monitoring and strong development practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted development throughout the software lifecycle to accelerate delivery, improve code quality and strengthen testing, debugging and technical problem-solving.
• Explore practical applications of emerging AI capabilities to improve engineering workflows, automate repetitive work and help the team build more effectively.
• Mentor and support engineers through pairing, code reviews, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.

What You’
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*Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

If hired, employees will be in an 'at-will position' and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Be a part of a team that reflects the diversity of our customers

We pride ourselves on being a workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.

Equally, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know If there are any adjustments that need to be made to ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.

And finally…get to know us

Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people-centered products.

Operating in two core markets - Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and the US, Zip offers access to point-of-sale credit and digital payment services, connecting millions of customers with its global network of tens of thousands of merchants. We’re proud to be a values-led business and our values - Customer First, Own it, Stronger Together and Change the Game - guide us in everything we do.

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