Sr. Software Engineer, FinTech

Description:
As a Senior Software Engineer on Tesla’s FinTech 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

Responsibilities:
Take ownership of core services within the FinTech 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

Requirements:
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, LangChain, 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 & Benefits:
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

Expected Compensation
$168,000 - $360,000/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.