Sr. Software Engineer, FinTech

What To Expect

As a Senior Software Engineer on Tesla’s Fin Tech Team, you will be the hands‑on force behind the systems that monetize Tesla’s global operations. Whether you are building real‑time payment gateways, architecting massive‑scale reconciliation engines, or designing automated invoicing systems, your work will directly impact the company's bottom line. This is a builder’s role. We are moving beyond legacy financial stacks to create an autonomous, AI‑driven financial nervous system.

You will face unique challenges in distributed transactions and data consistency—handling billions in revenue from vehicle orders and Supercharging to the emerging complexities of the Robotaxi fleet. You will also be among the first to bring AI Agents out of the "prototype" phase and into mission‑critical financial workflows, directly reducing the operational load for our finance and support teams.

Locations:
Freemont, CA or Bellevue, WA

• Take ownership of core services within the Fin Tech ecosystem—spanning payments processing, financial reconciliation, or billing/invoicing—writing high-performance code that scales to handle global transaction volumes
• Architect robust microservices and event-driven workflows, making key technical decisions on data modeling, API design, and consistency patterns like idempotency in financial transactions
• Move beyond theory to practice by integrating LLMs and AI Agents directly into our stack to automate complex tasks like invoice matching, anomaly detection in ledgers, and support triage
• Maintain the health of your services in production using observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure 99.99% availability and rapid incident resolution ("You build it, you run it")
• Raise the bar for code quality by conducting thorough code reviews, writing comprehensive tests, and mentoring junior engineers to help them grow their technical skills
• Work closely with Product Managers and Finance counterparts to understand business requirements, such as new market expansions or tax regulations, and translate them into technical specifications
• Help migrate legacy workflows to modern orchestration engines (like Temporal), reducing technical debt and increasing system reliability

• Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience with 5+ years of hands‑on software engineering experience
• Expert-level fluency in backend development with a strong preference for Go (Golang) or C#, though we are open to other modern languages
• Experience building systems that survive hardware failures, with an understanding of concurrency, database locking, caching strategies, and eventual consistency
• Comfortable working with Docker and Kubernetes in a production environment, including configuring CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Argo) to ship code safely and frequently
• Practical experience or a strong personal interest in building with AI tools (OpenAI API, Lang Chain, Vector DBs) and a desire to make non‑deterministic AI models reliable enough for financial data
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal, Cadence, or Airflow is a major plus
• A pragmatic engineering mindset that prioritizes simple, maintainable solutions over complex over‑engineering

Compensation and Benefits

• Medical plans with $0 payroll deduction
• Family‑building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both with $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid Health Savings Accounts (HSA) Contribution when enrolled in the High‑Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90‑day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back‑up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program

$168,000 - $360,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.