Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zipline is a global autonomous drone delivery company serving healthcare, logistics, and other essential-goods operations. The Staff Software Engineer will lead the evolution of systems supporting healthcare delivery workflows, owning architecture and hands-on full-stack development across backend services, APIs, integrations, distributed systems, and operational reliability.
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 robust APIs, backend services, and integration patterns that connect field operations, internal teams, and customer-facing products
- Build modular, event-driven systems that can evolve with operational and business needs
- Improve reliability, observability, automated testing, and operational decision-making for critical workflows
- Establish strong engineering standards through design reviews, code review, mentoring, and technical leadership
- Partner directly with operations, supply chain, finance, and customer-facing teams to resolve high-impact problems
Skills
- 10+ years of production software engineering experience, including staff-level technical scope
- Experience in both a high-engineering-bar organization where you worked at scale AND a startup or scale-up environment where you built from the ground up, with limited devops support and handled fast pace and ambiguity
- Deep production expertise in Go; you should be able to set technical direction for our backend services and develop other engineers' Go capability
- Experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven systems; Kafka or comparable technologies are strongly relevant
- Strong database design and performance experience, including Postgres
- A record of owning architecture across teams, leading significant migrations, mentoring engineers, and working directly with customers or external stakeholders
- Clear, effective communication in English
- Integrating with external partner APIs or partner systems
- Designing reliable integrations points and API contracts, authentication, error handling, observability, and integration workflows
- Healthcare, fulfillment, logistics, warehouse-management, or e-commerce systems
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Overtime pay
- Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
- Sales incentives
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Paid time off
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