Senior Engineering Manager (Checkouts)
- Proven track record leading engineering teams and complex platform delivery across cloud native, API driven products at scale, with expertise across .NET, React and AWS
- Drive the technology strategy behind Zip’s checkout experience, powering millions of customer and merchant interactions through scalable APIs, integrations and developer platforms
- Work flexibly in a hybrid environment, with regular team connection and collaboration in our Sydney office
Write your story with a career at Zip
Join Zip’s Technology function, responsible for building and maintaining seamless, secure and sustainable platforms that enable customers to shop with confidence and merchant partners to grow their brands.
As our Senior Engineering Manager, Checkouts, you’ll play a critical leadership role shaping the platforms that power Zip’s checkout experiences, merchant integrations, SDKs and Checkout APIs. Partnering closely with Product, Design, Commercial and Technology leaders, you’ll influence strategy, drive delivery and help define the architectural direction of one of Zip’s most important customer and merchant ecosystems.
This is an opportunity to lead at scale, solving complex technical and organisational challenges while creating experiences that help customers shop with confidence and merchants grow their businesses.
What you’ll own
- Lead, coach and develop a team of talented engineers, creating an inclusive, high performing culture focused on growth, accountability and innovation
- Drive delivery of the Checkouts roadmap, balancing speed, quality and long term scalability
- Partner closely with Product and Design leaders to identify opportunities, test ideas and deliver experiences that improve merchant onboarding and customer conversion
- Shape architectural direction across checkout platforms, APIs, integrations and distributed systems
- Influence technical strategy and delivery outcomes across multiple teams, stakeholders and business domains
- Champion engineering excellence, operational resilience, security and observability while enabling rapid product innovation
- Leverage AI and automation to improve engineering productivity, platform reliability and delivery efficiency
- Manage dependencies, risks and trade offs across complex initiatives to ensure successful delivery of strategic outcomes
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, technical leadership and knowledge sharing across the broader engineering organisation
What you'll bring to the team
Zipsters work on a broad range of initiatives, and our skills and experiences all look a little different. What really matters to us is that you’re a great fit with our four Values, and have a desire to learn and grow.
So whether you meet some or all of the desirable attributes below, we’d still love to hear from you:
- Proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams delivering highly available, customer facing platforms
- Demonstrated success delivering large scale engineering initiatives across multiple stakeholders, teams and business domains
- Strong technical expertise across modern cloud native architectures, APIs and distributed systems, with experience in technologies such as .NET, React and AWS
- Experience building and evolving integration ecosystems, developer products or merchant facing platforms at scale
- Ability to influence technical strategy, architecture and delivery outcomes beyond direct reporting lines
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build alignment across technical and non technical audiences
- A track record of balancing customer needs, commercial outcomes and engineering excellence in fast paced environments
- A mindset that embraces AI and new tools to adapt, learn and grow.
- An aptitude for identifying and managing risks. Whether you are a People Manager or an Individual Contributor, we are all leaders at Zip, therefore effective risk management is important to how we run our business and part of all our roles.
- Our values in your DNA: Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together and Change the Game
What you’ll get in return
As we write this next exciting chapter in our story, we will continue to move at pace and embrace change. For you, this might mean opportunities to learn new skills with hands-on experience, broader responsibilities, or the buzz of seeing your work impact customers faster.
Zip is a place where you’ll get out exactly what you put in. When you join the team, we'll do our best to make sure you can be yourself and surround yourself with smart, friendly colleagues and leaders who have your back, so that you can make the big things happen.
Zipsters tell us these are just some of the best things about working here. You’ll also receive:
- 25 days paid leave annually, including birthday leave and quarterly wellbeing days
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, and 4 weeks for supporting carers
- Family support policies including miscarriage bereavement leave and domestic violence leave
- Mental health and wellness initiatives, including $299 annual wellbeing allowance, free access for you and family members to our EAP service Sonder, discounted private health insurance and great rates on fitness sessions through ClassPass
- 2 days paid volunteering leave per year
- Access to the Flare Benefits Hub and Novated Leasing for savings across lifestyle, essentials and wellbeing
- Fee-free Zip products, and discounts with Zip merchant partners
- Team social events, epic offices, free breakfast daily, and weekly free lunches
Be a part of a team that reflects the diversity of our customers
We pride ourselves on being a workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.
Equally, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know If there are any adjustments that need to be made to ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.
And finally…get to know us
Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people-centred products that bring customers and merchants together.
Operating in two core markets - Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and the US, Zip offers point-of-sale credit and digital payment services, connecting millions of customers with its global network of tens of thousands of merchants.
We’re proud to be a values-led business and our values - Customer First, Own it, Stronger Together and Change the Game - guide us in everything we do.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams delivering highly available, customer-facing platforms
- Demonstrated success delivering large-scale engineering initiatives across multiple stakeholders and business domains
- Strong technical expertise in cloud native architectures, APIs and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with .NET, React and AWS
- Experience building and evolving integration ecosystems, developer products or merchant-facing platforms at scale
- Ability to influence technical strategy, architecture and delivery outcomes across teams
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Track record balancing customer needs, commercial outcomes and engineering excellence in fast-paced environments
- Mindset and experience leveraging AI and automation to improve engineering productivity and platform reliability
Zip Co Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zip Co and has not been reviewed or approved by Zip Co.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare plans are described as low or no‑cost, reducing out‑of‑pocket expense for employees and dependents. Feedback suggests this affordability is a standout element of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO, birthday leave, paid sick days, paid holidays, and “work from anywhere” flexibility provide wide‑ranging time‑off options. Feedback suggests quarterly mental‑health days further expand time away to recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for primary and supporting carers, plus miscarriage bereavement and domestic‑abuse leave, indicate robust family support. Flexible return‑to‑work options and fertility benefits further strengthen this area.
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What We Do
Zip (ASX:Z1P) is a leading global Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) company providing fair and seamless solutions that simplify how people pay. Founded in Australia in 2013 and now with a presence in 13 international markets, our mission is to be the first payment choice, everywhere and every day. We give consumers, merchants and businesses around the world access to transparent, flexible and interest-free credit. We exist to create a world where people can live fearlessly today, knowing they’re in control of tomorrow. Disrupting the broken credit card model, we put the financial well-being of our customers and merchants at the centre of everything that we do. Driven by people-centred product innovation, we are the next generation of payments, helping consumers and businesses to take control of their financial future. Over 55,000 retailers around the world offer Zip as a payment choice to our 8 million and growing active customers globally. We are Zip, and we’re only just getting started.
