Staff Software Engineer, Frontend Web Platform

Staff Software Engineer, Frontend Web Platform

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: $190,000 - $220,000 (determined by factors such as location, experience, education, and skills)

Position Overview

Zip is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Frontend Web Platform team. You will be instrumental in designing and building scalable architecture, tooling, and processes that empower Zip's engineers to deliver enterprise-quality software with high velocity. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide technical leadership, guiding architectural decisions and accelerating development through techniques like design system optimization and AI-assisted codemods. You will directly impact your colleagues' workflows, receiving immediate feedback on features you ship. This is a high-leverage position where small improvements significantly multiply across the hundreds of engineers we support. While we foster a collaborative environment with ample guidance and mentorship, we value engineers who demonstrate autonomy in scoping and solving complex technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead Initiatives: Ensure new features are performant and reliable, developing innovative frameworks to address unique testing challenges.
• Accelerate Development: Drive the adoption of AI-driven tools across the development lifecycle, including IDEs, code reviews, and test generation.
• Enhance Velocity & Productivity: Diagnose and eliminate friction points in development environments, testing patterns, CI pipelines, deployment processes, and feature flag conventions.
• Improve Code Quality: Analyze legacy patterns for sunsetting and build new frameworks and guardrails to promote best practices.
• Optimize Customer Experience: Systematically improve platform-layer frameworks to enhance the overall product experience and prevent issues.
• Design System Development: Build and enhance our current design system and component library.
• Establish Best Practices: Define and implement best practices for common UI/UX patterns such as tables, search, and filters.
• Lead Rebranding: Spearhead large-scale rebrand projects using codemods or design tokens.
• Build Accessibility Framework: Develop an accessibility framework incorporating linting and audit tools.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field (e.g., Physics, Mathematics).
• Experience with modern web development tools.
• Proficiency in our tech stack: React, Typescript, and GraphQL.
• Strong attention to detail and a deep sense of ownership.
• Proven ability to diagnose obstacles, debug friction, and drive velocity.

About Zip

Zip was founded in 2020 to address the complexities of enterprise software procurement. With over $120 trillion spent annually by enterprises globally, Zip has created a new category with its purpose-built procurement platform, offering a simple, consumer-grade user experience. Within four years, Zip has become the leading solution in this $50 billion+ TAM space, trusted by companies like OpenAI, Snowflake, Anthropic, Coinbase, and Prudential to manage billions in spend.

Our world-class team comprises individuals from category-defining companies such as Airbnb, Meta, Stripe, Salesforce, Apple, and Google. With a $2.2 billion valuation and $370 million in funding from prominent investors including Y Combinator, Tiger Global, BOND, DST Global, and CRV, Zip is dedicated to developing cutting-edge technology, expanding globally, and delivering exceptional value to our customers. Join us in revolutionizing enterprise procurement.

Perks & Benefits

At Zip, we are committed to providing our employees with the resources they need to excel.