Sr. Software Engineer, Fintech

Tesla • Fremont, CA

8d

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on Tesla’s FinTech Team, you'll drive disruptive innovation in our AI-first transformation, architecting hyper-scale systems for payments, reconciliation, billing, invoicing, and accounts receivables that handle billions in annual revenue from online and offline customer payments. Our mission-critical automation generates invoices, reconciles transactions upon bank hits, posts to ledgers, and navigates global market complexities with 99.99% uptime—now evolving to support Tesla's next era of Robotaxi and Optimus expansion. This high-impact role challenges you to rethink foundational platforms for unprecedented scale; it's demanding but rewarding for driven, pragmatic engineers motivated to fuel Tesla's sustainable future through cutting-edge, autonomous workflows and cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with a degree in CS, Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including designing and operating production systems at scale
• Experience architecting and maintaining distributed systems, with deep familiarity in container orchestration, service deployment, and infrastructure operations
• Demonstrated ability to set up robust observability systems from scratch, including distributed tracing, logging, and metrics pipelines
• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration platforms and self-hosting complex infrastructure components in high-availability environments
• Experience building AI agents or integrating intelligent systems into real-world applications, with an understanding of system-level design considerations for AI-powered functionality
• Strong background in developing agentic workflows (e.g., AI-driven autonomous systems for decision-making and task orchestration)
• Proficiency in preferred programming languages like Go (Golang) and C# for building scalable, efficient systems
• Familiarity with emerging AI technologies or tools for automation in financial workflows
• Proven track record of handling global-scale complexities, such as multi-market payments and high-uptime requirements in mission-critical systems

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and scale core FinTech infrastructure, encompassing payments, reconciliation, billing, invoicing, and accounts receivables systems
• Directly work with internal and external stakeholders to understand pain points, propose solutions, and ship them across financial workflows
• Re-think and design reconciliation, billing, and invoicing platforms from 0 to 1 with an AI-first vision
• Own end-to-end the complete lifecycle of offline payments, accounts receivables, and related financial processes at Tesla
• Identify and incorporate AI Agents to increase automation in payments, billing, and reconciliation tasks
• Implement orchestration engines for reliability and human-in-the-loop workflows across FinTech platforms
• Improve the reliability and observability of FinTech platforms at Tesla, including monitoring for billing accuracy and invoice processing
• Apply software engineering best practices—including version control, testing, CI/CD, and containerization
• Leverage exposure to FinTech domains like payments, reconciliation, billing, invoicing, or accounts receivables to optimize global operations
• Contribute to scalable systems in high-stakes environments, such as fintech or global operations, ensuring seamless integration with Tesla's expanding ecosystem

Benefits

• Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees