Zipline

Staff Software Engineer – Marketplace Growth

Zipline
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2 months ago
South San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $270k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop systems that drive customer acquisition, activation, referral, and retention.
  • Launch and rapidly iterate on growth experiments.
  • Optimize onboarding funnels and conversion flows.
  • Develop attribution systems and experimentation infrastructure.
  • Build referral, promotional, and rewards systems.
  • Analyze customer behavior and funnel performance.
  • Improve lifecycle messaging and engagement experiences.
  • Partner with marketing and operations teams on customer acquisition initiatives.
  • Support growth campaigns tied to launch events, local activations, and delivery demos.
  • Collaborate across engineering, product, marketing, analytics, and operations teams.
  • Use modern tools and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate experimentation.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building customer-facing software systems.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals across frontend and backend systems.
  • Experience improving acquisition, onboarding, activation, or retention metrics.
  • Comfort working with data, analytics, experimentation, and attribution systems.
  • Strong product instincts and customer empathy.
  • An extreme-ownership mindset and curiosity about customer behavior and growth dynamics.
  • A bias toward action, experimentation, and rapid iteration.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Benefits

  • Equity compensation may be included in the total compensation package.
  • Overtime pay, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, and sales incentives may be included.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available.
  • Paid time off is available.

Categories

Full StackGrowth Engineering
Zipline

About Zipline

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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