2 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $220k/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 operation.
- Design backend services, robust APIs, and integration patterns 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, customer-facing teams, and external stakeholders 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 with limited DevOps support.
- 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, with Kafka or comparable technologies strongly relevant.
- Strong database design and performance experience, including Postgres.
- Experience owning architecture across teams, leading significant migrations, mentoring engineers, and working directly with customers or external stakeholders.
- Clear, effective communication in English.
- Additional valuable experience includes external partner API or system integrations, reliable integration design, healthcare, fulfillment, logistics, warehouse-management, or e-commerce systems.
Benefits
- US-based candidates are offered a starting cash range of $180,000-$220,000, excluding other compensation components.
- Potential benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, equity compensation, overtime pay, and discretionary bonuses.
- Candidates must work from the US East Coast or London, UK, and travel to Africa approximately three times per year.
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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.