Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - Mapping

Zipline•South San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service, on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine, and essential goods anytime, anywhere. They design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, completing millions of deliveries across four continents, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Zipline's system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and provides rapid delivery, having safely flown over 140 million commercial autonomous miles. The company seeks practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth, motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and scaling the future of logistics. The Zipline Maps team is responsible for producing high-precision geospatial data essential for autonomous drone navigation in complex urban environments. This involves building and maintaining systems for collecting and aggregating spatial data, validating flight routes, and providing geospatial services to measure and manage risk and ensure regulatory compliance. As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping the systems that bridge complex backend services with human operators around the world. You will collaborate with designers, product managers, and map editors to deliver elegant user interfaces that transform sophisticated data and workflows into simple, intuitive experiences. Your work will directly influence how the world interacts with autonomous delivery at scale, from operational dashboards tracking thousands of daily deliveries to interfaces that assist regulators in evaluating safety and compliance, and design systems that empower the entire engineering organization.

Requirements

8+ years of experience building and maintaining production web applications
3+ years of experience leading frontend projects, driving architectural decisions, and mentoring other engineers
Strong expertise with Rust, Python, React (or similar frameworks), and modern full-stack tools
Experience building component libraries and design systems that balance flexibility with consistency
A customer-obsessed mindset, with the drive to continuously improve products in close feedback loops with real users
Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to solving problems across distributed teams

Responsibilities

Play a critical role in shaping the systems that bridge complex backend services with human operators around the world.
Collaborate with designers, product managers, and map editors to deliver elegant user interfaces.
Turn sophisticated data and workflows into simple, intuitive experiences.
Create the face of Zipline’s technology.
Directly influence how the world interacts with autonomous delivery at scale through operational dashboards, regulatory interfaces, and design systems.