Sr. Software Engineer, Financial Systems & Accounting Engineer

About the role

Sr. Software Engineer, Financial Systems & Accounting Engineer | Tesla (Engineering & Information Technology)

Location: Fremont, California | Req ID: 285080 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

You’ll join a small, expert team building the internal applications that support Tesla’s tax and accounting teams across our vehicle, energy, and solar businesses. You’ll help create scalable, high-performing systems that give the finance team the tools they need to track progress and hit the company’s financial goals.

We’re looking for someone with a genuine passion for building excellent software and a solid track record of delivering reliable, scalable systems. Strong engineering skills, clear communication, and experience giving and receiving thoughtful feedback on technical designs and pull requests are essential.

What You'll Do

• Consistently produce high-quality code that is maintainable and solves real-world problems
• Lead projects from requirements to architectural design to implementation to testing to production
• Seamlessly solve problems at many layers of the stack including debugging packet loss when communicating with PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) to designing for data consistency in massive globally distributed databases
• Collaborate with multiple teams, including Program Managers, Product Engineers, Performance Engineers, Infrastructure teams to ensure project delivery
• Prioritize building production-critical software systems that have sufficient validation, monitoring, and support strategies
• Interface with multi-disciplinary teams including Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain
• Participate in code review process and review the pull requests received from local and remote team members
• Perform quality testing on changes made by development team

What You'll Bring

• Degree in Computer Science, Comupter Engineering, Electrical Engineering or the equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability
• Minimum 4 year of working experience (preferred 6+ years)
• Demonstrated experience implementing large-scale projects in Go, Java, C++, Rust, or similar
• Understanding of core aspects of backend development (including SQL databases, networking, and security)
• Familiarity with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and at least one modern frontend framework (React, Angular.js, Svelte, etc.)
• Proficiency with web development, such as reading Splunk logs, working with Swagger, and using REST APIs
• Experience with DevOps tooling such as Kubernetes & Jenkins
• Comfortable with all aspects of rigorous software development and maintenance (version control, code reviews, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, etc.)
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and proven ability to lead technical initiatives from conception to production
• Previous experience with financial, tax, or treasury systems is a plus

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
• Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)

Expected Compensation$168,000 - $252,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefitsPay 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.