Senior Software Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

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.

About You And The Role

We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead Zipline’s Financial Platform team. This role is responsible for building the layer that turns Zipline’s operational activity into accurate, auditable, scalable financial systems. As Zipline grows across commercial delivery, marketplace-style partnerships, manufacturing, inventory, and global operations, we need financial systems that can keep pace with the business.

• Lead a small team of software engineers responsible for Zipline’s financial systems
• Build and evolve systems for commercial monetization, including a billing engine, pricing, fees, tax, payments, refunds, credits, partner settlement, and reconciliation
• Develop financial event models and ledger-like systems that create reliable, auditable transaction records across Zipline’s operations
• Partner with Finance to reduce manual workflows, improve close processes, strengthen controls, and create scalable financial operations
• Support manufacturing finance needs, including inventory costing, cost accounting, COGS visibility, and ERP integration
• Own the roadmap and product discovery process for Finance Systems, working directly with Finance and cross-functional business partners
• Define the long-term platform vision for how financial data, financial events, and operational systems should connect across Zipline
• Balance fast iteration with long-term architecture, auditability, correctness, and maintainability
• Contribute hands-on technically, including code, design reviews, architecture, debugging, and implementation where needed
• Build systems that integrate cleanly with a custom built ERP solution, accounting, tax, reporting, and other third-party systems

What You’ll Do

Lead a small team of software engineers responsible for Zipline’s financial systems
Build and evolve systems for commercial monetization, including a billing engine, pricing, fees, tax, payments, refunds, credits, partner settlement, and reconciliation
Develop financial event models and ledger-like systems that create reliable, auditable transaction records across Zipline’s operations
Partner with Finance to reduce manual workflows, improve close processes, strengthen controls, and create scalable financial operations
Support manufacturing finance needs, including inventory costing, cost accounting, COGS visibility, and ERP integration
Own the roadmap and product discovery process for Finance Systems, working directly with Finance and cross-functional business partners
Define the long-term platform vision for how financial data, financial events, and operational systems should connect across Zipline
Balance fast iteration with long-term architecture, auditability, correctness, and maintainability
Contribute hands-on technically, including code, design reviews, architecture, debugging, and implementation where needed
Build systems that integrate cleanly with a custom built ERP solution, accounting, tax, reporting, and other third-party systems

What You’ll Bring

• Strong software engineering background, ideally as a senior engineer, tech lead, or hands-on engineering manager
• Experience leading software engineers while staying close to architecture and implementation
• Experience building custom in-house financial, commerce, marketplace, ERP-adjacent, or operational systems
• Finance or accounting domain knowledge, with the ability to understand concepts like billing, revenue, reconciliation, inventory costing, COGS, close, controls, and auditability
• Strong product mindset and ability to work directly with business stakeholders to define problems, outcomes, and roadmaps
• Ability to challenge requirements constructively and separate the real problem from the requested solution
• Systems thinking across operational workflows, financial data, enterprise integrations, and business processes
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and building from first principles
• Bias toward custom software where it creates strategic leverage, paired with pragmatic judgment about when to integrate third-party systems
• Strong communication skills with Finance, engineering, operations, and leadership stakeholders
• High ownership, low ego, and a practical builder mindset

Bonus Points

• Experience building financial platforms for marketplaces, commerce, delivery, logistics, restaurant-tech, fintech, or high-volume transaction businesses
• Experience with pricing, billing, tax, payments, refunds, credits, settlement, or reconciliation systems
• Experience with inventory costing, manufacturing finance, cost accounting, or ERP integrations
• Experience building financial event streams, ledger systems, or auditable transaction platforms
• Experience supporting Finance teams through scale, close automation, audit readiness, or financial controls
• Experience in high-growth, operationally complex environments where software has to reflect messy real-world workflows

What Else You Need to Know

The starting cash range for this role is $200,000 - $275,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies. We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech.