Staff Software Engineer

About the role

Zippy is a company focused on providing easy, fast, and fully online manufactured home loans. We are headquartered in Dallas, TX, with an office in Tempe, AZ, and serve home buyers across the U.S. Our team is remote-first, spanning various cities. We are backed by institutional investors and offer competitive compensation, stock options, and benefits.

Responsibilities

• Architect large, multi-system technical solutions with long-term scalability
• Define and drive adoption of org-wide standards, frameworks, and reference architectures
• Set domain-level SLOs and reliability strategies
• Lead security and threat modeling initiatives across multiple systems
• Guide technical roadmaps in collaboration with senior leadership
• Mentor multiple engineers across the org and run design reviews
• Deliver measurable improvements in org-level metrics (e.g., MTTR, deployment frequency)

Role Prerequisites

• Extensive experience architecting distributed systems at scale
• Deep expertise in cloud, observability, and security practices
• Strong API design and testing methodology background
• Able to drive consensus across teams and resolve conflicts constructively
• 9+ years of professional software development experience
• Demonstrated success in org-wide initiatives