Software Engineer, Forward Deployed (All Levels)

About the role

You'll join Zip's Forward Deployed Software Engineering team as a software engineer on some of the highest-impact product work at the company. You'll write and ship production code, partner directly with our most critical customers, and own the engineering on the deals that matter most to Zip.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering on critical customer projects.
• Own scope, sequencing, and delivery against the timelines that high-stakes deals demand, embedded in the implementation cadence alongside our Field PM and Solutions Consultants.
• Ship high-impact features that move the most important strategic deals and renewals forward.
• Bring strong product sense to every decision. Partner with core product teams to decide what to build, what to push back on, and what to redirect.
• Shape Zip's long-term platform and roadmap. Features you ship land at our most critical customers first and compound into the platform, and the patterns you see first become next year's product investments.
• Communicate directly with customers. You'll be on calls with procurement, finance, and IT teams, diagnose problems live against real deadlines, and translate trade-offs in language that lands with both engineers and executives.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills. You've shipped non-trivial production systems and you can read and write code across the stack: Python on the backend and React/TypeScript on the frontend at Zip.
• Product instincts and judgment. You're the engineer on your current team who pushes back on poorly scoped requirements, who notices when a feature is solving the wrong problem, and who's willing to say so.
• Customer empathy and crisp communication. You can sit in a room with a Director of Procurement at a $50B company, hear what they're actually worried about, and translate it into a tech spec, and vice versa.
• Speed and urgency with a high quality bar. You can move on a customer-driven timeline and still write code that holds up in production.
• High ownership. You diagnose, build, and ship with minimal supervision. You're the kind of engineer who follows a problem upstream until it's actually fixed.

Skills

Helpful, Not Required: Prior experience as a product engineer or full-stack engineer on a team that owned features end-to-end, shipped frequently, and worked closely with users or customers. Prior founder or early-employee experience. Experience with procurement, finance, ERP, or AP automation systems.

Benefits

• The base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $250,000. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant experience, education, or particular skills and expertise.
• We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:
  • Start-up equity
  • 100% health, vision & dental coverage options
  • Catered breakfast, lunch, & dinner
  • TClassPass membership
  • Flexible PTO
  • ClassPass membership
  • Monthly commuter benefit
  • Team building events & happy hours
  • Home office stipend
  • Phone/internet reimbursement
  • Paid parental leave
  • Fertility stipend
  • 401k plan
  • Unlimited AI token usage

Perks

We're 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!