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Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform


Company : ZipHQ, Inc.


Location : Toronto, Ontario


Created : 2026-03-17


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

About Zip Here at Zip, we''''re reimagining how modern businesses function in the age of AI. The simple task of buying software, services, or tools at work has become hopelessly complicated at even the most innovative companies in the world. Today, enterprises spend $120T+ per year globally (>30 times larger than annual consumer e-commerce spend) and rely on vendors more than ever before to run their businesses. Our co-founders started Zip in 2020 to address this seemingly universal problem with a purpose-built procurement platform that provides a simple, consumer-grade user experience. Within the last 5 years, Zip has created a new category and developed the leading solution in this $50B+ TAM space. Today, the worlds leading companies like OpenAI, Snowflake, Anthropic, Coinbase, and JPMorgan Chase rely on Zip to manage billions of dollars in spend. We have a world-class team coming from category-defining companies like Airbnb, Meta, Stripe, Salesforce, Apple, and Google. With a $2.2 billion valuation and $370 million in funding from Y Combinator, Tiger Global, BOND, DST Global, and CRV, were focused on developing cuttingedge technology, expanding into new global markets, andabove alldriving incredible value for our customers. Join us! Your Role As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will be responsible for designing and building scalable architecture, tooling and processes that enable Zips engineers to ship enterprisequality software with high velocity. You will play a technical leadership role by providing design and architectural guidance to accelerate software development at Zip using techniques ranging from lowlevel systems optimizations (for speeding up tests), to largescale rewrites using AIassisted codemods. You will ship features that will be immediately used by your coworkers who will feel the impact of your work firsthand and share feedback instantly. On this team, we operate from a position of high leverage, and the impact of every small improvement gets multiplied across the 100s of engineers we support. 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 Lead initiatives to ensure that new features are performant and reliable, creating innovative frameworks to address our unique testing challenges. Accelerate software development at Zip by driving adoption of AIdriven tools, from IDEs to code reviews to test generators. Drive velocity and productivity by diagnosing and removing friction in every step, from development environments, to testing patterns, to CI pipelines, to deployment processes, to feature flag conventions. Lift product quality and boost the health of our codebase by analyzing legacy patterns that need to be sunset, and building new frameworks and guardrails to nudge engineers toward better practices. Optimize the customer experience across the product by systematically improving our frameworks, removing and preventing issues at the platform layer. Drive the development of a new deploy and release process, enabling daily deployments while safeguarding customers from bugs and incidents through canaries, traffic replay, and bundling feature releases for Enterprise customers Your Qualifications 4+ years of software engineering experience. BS or higher, in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g. physics or math). Experience with modern CI tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Buildkite, Jenkins, and Docker. Attention to detail with a strong ownership mindset. Ability to diagnose obstacles, debug friction, and drive velocity. Perks & Benefits At Zip, were committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work. Startup equity 100% health, vision & dental coverage options Catered breakfast, lunch, & dinner Flexible PTO ClassPass membership Monthly commuter benefit Team building events & happy hours Home office stipend Phone/internet reimbursement Hybrid model + 5 flexible remote days per quarter Paid parental leave Fertility benefits Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Unlimited AI token usage 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! #J-18808-Ljbffr