Senior Software Engineer

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
In-Office
Senior level
Payments
The Role
Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and third-party integrations. Develop APIs, services, and event-driven solutions. Participate in architecture and design, ensure system reliability and performance, conduct code reviews, collaborate with Product and external partners, and mentor engineers.
Summary Generated by Built In

We’re hiring a Senior-Level Software Engineers to help build a brand-new product that will transform how finance teams operate. This isn’t incremental feature work, you’ll be helping to remove deeply manual processes and replace them with intuitive, scalable solutions used by 7,000+ businesses worldwide.

If you’re motivated by ownership, real customer impact, and the chance to shape something early, this is the role for you.

Why Join Tipalti Engineering?

Tipalti is a global fintech leader powering modern finance operations — but our engineering culture feels closer to a high-ownership startup than a corporate giant.

  • 🚀 Real Ownership – Engineers shape product decisions, not just tickets.
  • 🌍 Meaningful Scale – Your code impacts thousands of global businesses.
  • 🧠 Engineering-First Culture – We value thoughtful design, clean architecture, and pragmatic solutions.
  • 🤝 Collaborative Teams – Work closely with Product and Design in empowered squads.
  • 📈 Room to Grow – Expand your scope, influence architecture, and mentor others.

Our tech ecosystem is rich, complex, and constantly evolving as we expand globally and ship new 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 Mid-Level Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in launching and scaling a new product area. You’ll work in a cross-functional squad to:

  • Turn ideas into well-designed, scalable systems
  • Build high-quality features end-to-end
  • Deliver 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 new and existing functionality in expenses and procurement.

Our Current Stack

  • React
  • Node.js
  • JavaScript & TypeScript

That said, our interview process is technology-agnostic. We care more about strong engineering fundamentals, problem-solving ability, and learning mindset than specific framework experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Design, build, and ship end-to-end features for a new product
  • Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers to shape technical direction
  • Develop and evolve scalable backend APIs and microservices
  • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code
  • Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and pair programming
  • Mentor junior engineers and help raise engineering 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 software
  • You think in systems and care about long-term maintainability
  • You enjoy collaborating and shaping ideas early
  • 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 technologies or domains

Why Join Tipalti?

🤝 Open, inclusive, and supportive engineering culture
🧑‍💻 Build 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
We are committed to protecting the privacy interests of job applicants and candidates. For more information about our privacy practices during our Talent Acquisition process, please refer to our Job Candidate Privacy Notice below:

Job Candidate Privacy Notice | Tipalti

www.tipalti.com/privacy/job-candidate-privacy-notice/



Skills Required

  • Strong experience building backend systems using C# and Node.js
  • Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining third-party integrations with external platforms and services
  • Strong understanding of API design and integration patterns, including REST, webhooks, and asynchronous communication
  • Experience working with SQL (MSSQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis)
  • Experience building and consuming APIs (REST and/or SOAP)
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, Bull/Redis)
  • Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
  • Strong understanding of software design principles and clean coding practices
  • Comfortable working across the full stack when needed
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Tipalti Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Tipalti and has not been reviewed or approved by Tipalti.

  • Equity Value & Accessibility Pre‑IPO equity and an employee stock purchase plan are included, providing ownership potential alongside cash pay. Equity is positioned as a core element of total rewards.
  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA/FSA and mental‑health support form a comprehensive core. Some descriptions cite strong plan value in certain locations, indicating healthcare is a relative strength.
  • Flexible Benefits A structured hybrid work model with office amenities and ERGs complements core benefits. Everyday perks such as free lunches, snacks, and events enhance the day‑to‑day experience.

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The Company
HQ: Foster City, CA
635 Employees
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Tipalti is the only global payables automation solution to streamline all phases of the AP and payment management workflow in one holistic cloud platform. Tipalti makes it painless for accounts payable departments to manage their entire supplier payments operation. The solution addresses everything from supplier onboarding and vetting, to tax and regulatory compliance, invoice processing, payments to suppliers anywhere in the world in a wide range of payment methods and currencies, supplier payment status communications, to closing the loop with payment reconciliation and reporting. Innovative companies use Tipalti to eliminate up to 80% of their supplier payment workload, helping them scale their business efficiently with global growth, while strengthening financial and compliance controls and while enhancing the partner payment experience. Companies like GoDaddy, Houzz, Amazon Twitch, and Vimeo and hundreds of others trust Tipalti to elevate their global supplier payments operation.

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