Base Salary
$180k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end software for fulfillment, maintenance, inventory, and flight workflows.
- Lead architecture across multiple teams from data models and API contracts through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.
- Design backend services, APIs, and integrations connecting field operations, internal teams, and customer-facing products.
- Build modular, event-driven systems that adapt to operational and business needs.
- Improve reliability, observability, automated testing, and operational decision-making for critical workflows.
- Establish engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and technical leadership.
- Partner with operations, supply chain, finance, and customer-facing teams to solve high-impact problems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of production software engineering experience, including staff-level technical scope.
- Experience in both a high-engineering-bar organization operating at scale and a startup or scale-up environment building from the ground up.
- Deep production expertise in Go and the ability to set backend technical direction and develop other engineers’ Go capabilities.
- Experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven systems; Kafka or comparable technologies are strongly relevant.
- Strong database design and performance experience, including Postgres.
- Experience owning cross-team architecture, leading significant migrations, mentoring engineers, and working with customers or external stakeholders.
- Clear, effective communication in English.
- Ability to work from the US East Coast or London, UK, and travel to Africa approximately three times per year.
- Additional valuable experience includes external partner API or systems integration, reliable integration-point and API-contract design, and healthcare, fulfillment, logistics, warehouse-management, or e-commerce systems.
Benefits
- US-based candidates may receive equity compensation, overtime pay, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, sales incentives, medical, dental and vision insurance, and paid time off.
- The role can be based on the US East Coast or in London, UK.
- Travel to Africa is required approximately three times per year.
Tech Stack
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About Zipline
Zipline was founded to create the first logistics system that serves all humans equally. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy, Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest automated delivery system. Zipline serves tens of millions of people around the world and is making good on the promise of building an equitable and more resilient global supply chain. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart and enabling leading healthcare providers to bring care into the home in the United States, Zipline is transforming the way goods move. By transitioning to clean, electric, instant logistics, we can decarbonize delivery, decrease road congestion, and reduce fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access for billions of people. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Zipline is inspiring people, governments, and businesses to imagine what is possible when goods can move as seamlessly as information. To join the team, check out our career page: https://flyzipline.com/careers/