Application Engineer, Level 4

Snap•Santa Monica, CA

6d•$133,000 - $235,000•Onsite

About The Position

Snap Inc. is seeking a Full Stack Application Engineer to join its Finance Technology team. The role builds and operates business-critical applications connecting Finance, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing to support hardware development and production, from planning and procurement through inventory, costing, and financial reporting. The engineer works with business and technical partners to turn complex operational needs into reliable products and owns solutions from discovery and architecture through delivery, adoption, and production support. This end-to-end position involves developing secure, scalable applications and services, building integrations across enterprise platforms, and ensuring systems are reliable, maintainable, and effective for their users. The role calls for strong full-stack engineering skills, an understanding of enterprise systems and data integrity, and the ability to work across finance or manufacturing workflows. Snap follows a “default together” approach and expects team members to work in an office four or more days per week. The role is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs. U.S. base salary ranges vary by pay zone: Zone A (CA, WA, NYC), $157,000–$235,000 annually; Zone B, $149,000–$223,000 annually; and Zone C, $133,000–$200,000 annually. Starting pay depends on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, location, and market conditions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 4 years of full-stack application or software engineering experience after earning a bachelor’s degree; alternatively, a technical master’s degree plus at least 3 years of post-graduate full-stack engineering experience, or a relevant technical PhD.
Professional experience building, shipping, and supporting production-grade, end-to-end web applications.
Hands-on experience with a modern front-end framework, back-end services, relational databases, and system integrations.
Strong full-stack development skills using JavaScript or TypeScript and at least one modern front-end framework such as React, Angular, or Vue.
Strong experience developing backend services and APIs using one or more of Java, Python, Go, or Node.js, and ability to learn the company’s stack quickly.
Understanding of application architecture, object-oriented and domain-driven design, distributed systems, and common integration patterns.
Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear product, functional, and technical requirements.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work effectively across engineering and non-engineering teams.
Practical ownership mindset, including simplifying complexity, making sound tradeoffs, and following through on reliability and user outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Experience with finance, ERP, MRP, MES, PLM, warehouse management, procurement, or supply-chain applications.
Experience building auditable systems in a controlled environment, including segregation of duties and SOX-aligned controls.
Interest in responsibly using automation and AI-assisted capabilities to improve business workflows and engineering productivity.
Passion for Snap products and for building tools that help teams do their best work.

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate secure, scalable web applications and services for Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Operations teams.
Own features across the full stack, including user experience, data models, APIs, business logic, integrations, automated testing, and observability.
Develop integrations among ERP, MRP, MES, PLM, warehouse, procurement, finance, and analytics platforms using APIs, events, and batch processing at scale.
Partner with product managers and business stakeholders to understand processes, challenge assumptions, define requirements, and deliver measurable outcomes.
Improve system performance and resilience through monitoring, alerting, service-level objectives, capacity planning, and incident response.
Raise engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, automated tests, CI/CD, documentation, and pragmatic technical standards.
Share knowledge, mentor teammates, and contribute to an inclusive, high-ownership engineering culture.