Zippy was founded with one mission: to make getting a loan for a manufactured home simple, fast, and fully online. We believe modern manufactured homes are affordable, well-built, eco-friendly, and stylish, but finding a lender who understands this market can be challenging. That’s why Zippy focuses exclusively on manufactured home loans, offering a seamless, digital experience.

Headquartered in Dallas, TX, with an office in Tempe, AZ, Zippy provides home loans and insurance to manufactured home buyers throughout the United States. Our remote-first team is spread across cities like Dallas, Houston, Knoxville, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and several other states and cities. Backed by institutional investors, we offer competitive pay, stock options, and excellent benefits. At Zippy, we pride ourselves on our commitment to finance happiness through the power of home. We are dedicated to enhancing consumers' financial outcomes and tackling the affordable housing crisis through cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions.

The Role

As a Staff Engineer, you are a recognized expert and force multiplier across the organization. You’ll architect multi-system solutions, define technical standards, and drive high-impact initiatives such as platform migrations and reliability programs. You’ll mentor engineers across teams and partner with leadership to shape Zippy’s technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Architect large, multi-system technical solutions with long-term scalability.

• Define and drive adoption of org-wide standards, frameworks, and reference architectures.

• Set domain-level SLOs and reliability strategies.

• Lead security and threat modeling initiatives across multiple systems.

• Guide technical roadmaps in collaboration with senior leadership.

• Mentor multiple engineers across the org and run design reviews.

• Deliver measurable improvements in org-level metrics (e.g., MTTR, deployment frequency).

Role Prerequisites

• Extensive experience architecting distributed systems at scale.

• Deep expertise in cloud, observability, and security practices.

• Strong API design and testing methodology background.

• Ability to drive consensus across teams and resolve conflicts constructively.

• 9+ years of professional software development experience.