Job Overview
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Backend Engineer
Date Posted
March 18, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Software Engineer on Zip's AI Foundations team, you will build the core platform that powers every AI-driven product across the company, enabling scalable, reliable, and reusable infrastructure for agentic systems, document processing, retrieval, and evaluation—directly impacting how Zip delivers intelligent procurement solutions to Fortune 500 clients like OpenAI, Snowflake, and JPMorgan Chase.
- • You will design and implement end-to-end AI infrastructure including agentic orchestration (LangGraph), RAG pipelines, document parsing systems, memory architectures, and eval frameworks, working with significant autonomy to solve open-ended problems where established best practices are still emerging.
- • You will collaborate closely with product teams across Intake AI, Chatbot, IP Agent, Contract Orchestration, and Payments to identify shared needs, abstract patterns, and ship platform-level capabilities that raise the quality and velocity of AI development organization-wide.
- • You will own the reliability and observability of AI systems in production, building tracing, logging, metrics, and alerting tooling that ensures AI applications perform consistently and safely at scale.
- • You will grow into a platform thinker who anticipates reuse, designs for broad adoption, and influences engineering standards across Zip—shaping how the company builds AI for years to come.
- • You will work alongside elite engineers from Airbnb, Meta, Stripe, Salesforce, Apple, and Google in a high-impact, well-funded environment ($2.2B valuation, $370M raised) where your work directly contributes to redefining enterprise procurement in the age of AI.
🎯 Requirements
- • 3+ years of backend or full-stack software engineering experience in a production environment
- • Strong Python proficiency; experience with async frameworks and distributed systems is a plus
- • Hands-on experience building or operating LLM-based applications — RAG pipelines, tool use, agents, or eval systems
- • Experience with data pipelines, job scheduling (Airflow or equivalent), and vector databases or embedding-based search
- • Comfort with observability tooling: tracing, logging, metrics, and alerting in production AI systems
- • Ability to drive ambiguous, open-ended problems to a conclusion without a lot of hand-holding
🏖️ Benefits
- • Start-up equity
- • 100% health, vision & dental coverage options
- • Catered breakfast, lunch, & dinner
- • 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
Skills & Technologies
About Zip
Zip provides the world's leading agentic procurement orchestration platform, helping businesses manage spend from initial intake to final payment. Their comprehensive suite of products, including Intake-to-Procure, Procure-to-Pay, Supplier Onboarding, and AI Procurement Concierge, streamlines complex purchasing processes. Zip serves a broad spectrum of clients, from startups to enterprises across various industries like technology and financial services, empowering procurement, finance, and legal teams to gain control and efficiency. The platform is designed to facilitate smarter spending and mitigate risk, leveraging embedded AI capabilities for decision-making and driving cross-functional efficiency by integrating with existing tech stacks, a feature beneficial for distributed teams. Notably, Zip is trusted by over 1,030 global leaders, demonstrating its significant impact on optimizing business operations.
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