Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Application Software

Zipline

3d•$180,000 - $270,000

About The Position

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service, aiming to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine, and essential goods. They design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably across four continents. Zipline operates on a global scale and is looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. The team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. They seek individuals who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can achieve the impossible at record-breaking speeds.

Requirements

Experience building and shipping production software systems
Strong full-stack fundamentals across frontend, backend, services, and data
Ability to turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into simple, reliable software
Combine product instinct with systems judgment
Care deeply about reliability, correctness, usability, and operational trust
Enjoy working directly with users and stakeholders to understand real workflows
Desire to shape architecture and product direction, not just implement scoped features
Excited to use modern AI tooling to increase velocity while maintaining strong engineering rigor

Nice To Haves

Experience with Go, Python, React, gRPC, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS, Bazel, Grafana, and Honeycomb

Responsibilities

Own high-impact software across one or more parts of Zipline’s application platform, such as partner, merchant, and internal operations tools; marketplace, fulfillment, billing, and support systems; network operations software; and enterprise systems.
Work closely with users and stakeholders, including operators, field teams, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, commercial, product, and partner teams.
Identify ambiguous problems, design durable systems, build production software end to end, and drive adoption.
Build the software backbone of Zipline’s autonomous logistics network, turning complex real-world operations into reliable systems that scale.
Solve problems related to real-time visibility, network operation under dynamic conditions, financial and operational traceability, automation of workflows, and scaling software across diverse geographies and verticals.