Senior Software Engineer

Tipalti is building an AI-native product to help with end of month accounts. Today, closing the books takes 5-6 accountants roughly 14 working days, chasing down discrepancies across spreadsheets, payroll systems, invoices, and disconnected data sources. This product is being built from scratch to automate large parts of that reconciliation work using AI, not as an add-on to an existing process, but as the product's core design principle from day one.

The team operates with very few conventional handoffs between product, design, engineering, and customer-facing work. You'll be expected to run it that way too: make decisions with incomplete information, move fast, and treat mistakes as inputs rather than setbacks.

Why join Tipalti?

Tipalti is the AI-powered platform for finance automation, elevating how finance teams operate in the global economy. We empower our customers to scale faster and smarter by removing the complexities of doing global business and accelerating their finance operations efficiency. Our platform provides a comprehensive suite of finance automation solutions designed for mid-market businesses across accounts payable, global payouts, procurement, employee expenses, corporate cards, supplier management, tax compliance, and treasury. Tipalti partners with leading financial institutions such as Citi, Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan, and Visa, enabling over 5,000 global companies to efficiently and securely pay millions of suppliers and payees across 200+ countries and territories, in 120 currencies.

At Tipalti, we pride ourselves on our collaborative culture, the quality of our product and the capabilities of our people. Tipaltians are passionate about the work they do, and keen to get the job done. Tipalti offers competitive benefits, a flexible workplace, and an environment where diverse individuals can thrive and make an impact. Our culture ensures everyone checks their egos at the door and stands ready to reach for success together. 

Founded in Israel in 2010, Tipalti is a global business headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area (Foster City) with offices in Tel Aviv, Plano, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Amsterdam, Tbilisi and Medellin.

Real Ownership - Engineers shape product and AI architecture decisions, not just tickets.

Meaningful Scale - Your models and code impact thousands of global businesses.

AI-First Engineering Culture - We value thoughtful system design, rigorous evaluation, and pragmatic AI solutions over hype.

Collaborative Teams - Work closely with Product, Design, and Data in empowered squads.

Room to Grow - Expand your scope, influence AI architecture, and mentor others.

Our tech ecosystem is rich, complex, and constantly evolving as we expand our AI capabilities and ship new intelligent features. You'll be part of a team that values curiosity, healthy debate, and continuous improvement - always with the customer at the centre of what we build.

The Role

As a Senior AI Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in launching and scaling a new AI-native product area. You'll work in a cross-functional squad to:

• Turn ambiguous problems into well-designed, scalable AI-powered systems
• Build high-quality, LLM-driven features end-to-end - from prototype to production
• Design and integrate agentic workflows, retrieval systems, and model-orchestration pipelines
• Deliver AI solutions that make a measurable difference for customers

You'll contribute across the stack, with a strong focus on backend APIs and services that power AI/LLM-driven functionality in expenses and procurement.

Our Current Stack

• React Node.js
• JavaScript & TypeScript
• LLM APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic/similar)
• Vector databases & retrieval pipelines

That said, our interview process is technology-agnostic. We care more about strong engineering fundamentals, applied AI/ML judgment, and a learning mindset than specific framework experience.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build, and ship end-to-end AI-powered features for a new product
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers to shape technical and AI strategy
• Develop and evolve scalable backend APIs, microservices, and LLM-orchestration layers
• Build robust evaluation frameworks to test and improve model performance and reliability
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code - including around probabilistic/AI components
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and pair programming
• Mentor junior engineers and help raise engineering and AI-quality standards
• Contribute to a team culture of continuous learning and shared success

About You

You might be a great fit if:

• You take pride in building reliable, high-quality AI-powered software
• You think in systems and care about long-term maintainability - including of AI/LLM pipelines
• You've built or shipped features using LLMs, agents, embeddings, or similar AI tooling
• You enjoy collaborating and shaping ideas early, especially where the "right approach" isn't obvious yet
• You're comfortable mentoring others and sharing knowledge
• You thrive in environments where you have ownership and influence
• You're adaptable and excited to learn new AI techniques, models, and domains

Why Join Tipalti?

Open, inclusive, and supportive engineering culture

Build AI-powered products used by some of the world's fastest-growing companies

Equity options in a late stage scale up

Breakfast and lunch provided three days a week in the office (Mon, Tue, Thu)

Private Medical and Dental cover

£100/month mobile allowance and £26/month internet allowance

Free breakfast and snacks in the office

25 days of paid time off, plus bank holidays

Our Mission

Our mission is to elevate how finance teams operate in the global economy. We empower our customers to scale faster and smarter by removing the complexities of doing global business and accelerating their finance operations efficiency. We are the AI-powered platform that automates finance.

Tipalti is fueled by a commitment to our customers and a desire to build lasting connections. Our client portfolio includes high-velocity businesses such as Amazon Twitch, GoDaddy, Roku, WordPress.com, and ZipRecruiter. We work hard for our 99% customer retention rate which is built on trust, reliability and innovation. Tipalti means we handled it" - a mission to which we are constantly committed.

Accommodations

Tipalti champions inclusive teams, in which every voice counts. We are committed to recruiting diverse candidates with varied personal experiences and abilities. We welcome applications from candidates belonging to historically underrepresented or disadvantaged groups, and maintain an equitable Talent Acquisition process that is free from discrimination.

As an equal opportunities employer, Tipalti complies with employment and human rights laws across the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Should you require reasonable adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, including access to alternate formats of materials, meeting spaces, or other accommodations that could better enable your full participation, please reach out to [email protected] for assistance.

AI Use 

We may use artificial intelligence and automated systems (collectively "AI") to screen, assess, and select candidates during our recruitment process. This includes resume screening, skills assessment, and candidate matching. You have the right to request human review of any automated decision. For more information about how we collect and use personal data and information during recruitment, please refer to our Job Candidate Privacy Notice. For additional questions about our use of AI during our recruitment process, you can contact [email protected].

Privacy

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