Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2025)

Our co-founders started Zip in 2020 to address this seemingly intractable problem with a purpose-built platform that provides a simple, consumer-grade user experience. Within just a few short years, Zip created the procurement orchestration category and developed the leading solution in this $50B+ TAM space. Today, leading companies like Instacart, Anthropic, Sephora, Discover, Reddit, and Lyft rely on Zip to manage billions of dollars in spend.

We're a fast-growing team that helped scale category-defining companies like Airbnb, Meta, Salesforce, Databricks, Ramp, Apple, and Google. With a $2.2 billion valuation and $370 million in funding from Y Combinator, BOND, DST Global, and CRV, we’re focused on developing cutting-edge technology, expanding into new global markets, and—above all–driving incredible value for our customers. Join us!

Your Role

As a Software Engineer Intern, you will be shown how to build Zip’s core products and architecture. You will ship features that will be immediately used by our users and will work with a tight-knit team that values open communication and cross-functional collaboration. We move quickly to solve a wide range of complex technical and product challenges. While we are an experienced team that can provide constant guidance and mentorship, we value engineers who can scope and solve difficult technical challenges.

Previous interns have worked on:

• Internal AI bot: a bot that uses generative AI to aggregate info from various sources (e.g. google doc, notion, Slack, Zip help site) and generate answers - it’s now actively used by both engineering and customer teams at Zip

• Devbox: building a prototype that bootstraps the development environment in AWS cloud for all zip engineers - this project is now being used by 80+ engineers
  

• Virtual Card Auto Lock: a feature that automatically locks virtual cards based on various policies, such as after a certain expiration date, when reported lost, or in the event of an overdraft. This feature, along with a self-serve onboarding tool, is now live in our virtual card product

You Will

• Design and build highly reliable and resilient products and features

• Work closely with cross functional product and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and ship thoughtful solutions

• Write high-quality, extensible, and maintainable code

• Design and build scalable frontend applications and components

• Design and build APIs to drive existing and new features for a web-based application

Qualifications

• Pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g. physics or math), with an expected graduation date between December 2025 - June 2026

• Experience with web applications and API development. At Zip, our stack includes Python, Javascript/TypeScript, React, and GraphQL

• Ability and interest to quickly learn new frameworks, architecture patterns, and programming languages as needed

• Fantastic written and verbal communication skills

• Prior internship in high-growth startup environment

The salary for this role is $11,000/month.

Perks & Benefits

At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work

• 🍽️ Catered breakfasts, lunches & dinners

• 🚠 Team building events & happy hours

• 💻 Apple equipment

We're looking to hire Zippers and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!