Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Financial Platform
Zipline
| Company | Zipline |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | South San Francisco |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 15 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
About Zipline
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. About You and The Role
You are the Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Financial Platform, responsible for turning operational activity (flights, deliveries, manufacturing runs, inventory moves, partner 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 reliability for the Financial Platform: 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 (revenue at risk, manual hours reduced, audit risk avoided) to set priorities.
Deliver measurable outcomes for the platform: materially reduce manual reconciliation effort in scoped areas, compress month‑end close for covered entities, and raise automated settlement accuracy toward the >99.9% target (calibrated with Finance).
Design and operate durable financial‑event models and idempotent, ordered processing so transaction records are auditable, replayable, and reconcilable across operational systems and a custom ERP.
Set and own correctness and availability SLOs/SLIs for critical financial paths (example targets: payment/settlement critical paths >=99.95% availability), lead incident response for production financial incidents, and drive post‑incident root‑cause fixes.
Own controls and audit readiness: deliver reconciliations, evidence, and remediation tracked with Finance and internal audit to close co
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