9 hours ago
Base Salary
$180k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build frontend and backend SDKs, integration frameworks, connector templates, and developer tooling for partner API integrations.
- Define platform architecture, interfaces, API and SDK versioning, compatibility practices, and reusable connector patterns.
- Create sandbox environments, partner API simulators, automated contract tests, release checks, and onboarding workflows.
- Establish consistent retry, idempotency, fallback, monitoring, runbook, incident-response, and remediation practices for integrations.
- Evolve partner and partner-site data models to support finance and operations requirements and reduce partner-specific workarounds.
- Lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, measure integration and developer productivity outcomes, and improve the framework based on recurring issues.
- Work with partner engineers, Product, Commercial, Finance, and Operations to translate enterprise requirements into platform priorities and launch plans.
Requirements
- 7+ years building and operating production backend or distributed systems with architecture and delivery ownership across services and teams.
- Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, or internal tooling used by engineers to ship production software, ideally for external API integrations.
- Strong knowledge of API design, data modeling, asynchronous workflows, schema evolution, eventual consistency, and idempotent processing.
- Experience designing reusable integrations, automated integration testing, development environments, observability, on-call support, and incident investigation.
- Deep proficiency in Go, Python, or a comparable backend language, including experience building libraries, command-line tools, or developer workflows.
- Experience building or supporting frontend libraries, SDKs, or embedded customer experiences and understanding client-side integration, authentication, error handling, and usability.
- Ability to define architecture and engineering standards, communicate with external engineering teams, mentor engineers, and align technical and business stakeholders.
- Ability to turn ambiguous business needs into practical technical plans and balance enterprise launch commitments with reusable platform investments.
- Experience using AI tools for implementation, testing, debugging, and review while maintaining correctness, security, and maintainability.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available.
- Paid time off is available.
- The total compensation package may include equity compensation, overtime pay, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, and sales incentives.
About Zipline
Zipline designs, builds, and operates autonomous drone delivery systems for healthcare, retail, and public-sector customers. The privately held company runs end-to-end logistics—aircraft, software, and fulfillment—to deliver blood, vaccines, medicines, and consumer goods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Zipline operates across multiple continents; notable work includes Rwanda’s national blood deliveries and U.S. home delivery pilots with Walmart.