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By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before.\nThe world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more. Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend. Zip’s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.\nBacked by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. 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While we are an experienced team that can provide constant guidance and mentorship, we value engineers who can autonomously scope and solve difficult technical challenges.\nYou Will\nLead initiatives to ensure that new features are performant and reliable, creating innovative frameworks to address our unique testing challenges.\n\nAccelerate software development at Zip by driving adoption of AI-driven tools, from IDEs to code reviews to test generators.\n\nDrive velocity and productivity by diagnosing and removing friction in every step, from development environments, to testing patterns, to CI pipelines, to deployment processes, to feature flag conventions.\n\nLift product quality and boost the health of our codebase by analyzing legacy patterns that need to be sunset, and building new frameworks and guardrails to nudge engineers toward better practices.\n\nOptimize the customer experience across the product by systematically improving our frameworks, removing and preventing issues at the platform layer.\n\nDrive the development of a new deploy and release process, enabling daily deployments while safeguarding customers from bugs and incidents through canaries, traffic replay, and bundling feature releases for Enterprise customers\n\nYour Qualifications\n4+ years of software engineering experience.\n\nBS or higher, in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g. physics or math).\n\nExperience with modern CI tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Buildkite, Jenkins, and Docker.\n\nAttention to detail with a strong ownership mindset.\n\nAbility to diagnose obstacles, debug friction, and drive velocity.\n\nThe salary range for this role is $200,000-$250,000 CAD. 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