Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - Health Care

Zipline

12h•Onsite

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, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Their customers include prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants, and global businesses. The company emphasizes that the drone is only 15% of their system, which strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back, with over 140 million commercial autonomous miles flown. Zipline seeks practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth, motivated by building systems with direct, meaningful impact. The Nest Applications Software team at Zipline builds and manages the fulfillment, maintenance, and flight systems powering operations in Africa. This team is responsible for software managing medical inventory, order processing, and flight coordination for automated delivery at scale. Their work includes internal platforms for supply chain and financial workflows, and external-facing applications for customer orders, ensuring efficient, intelligent, and global operations.

Requirements

8+ years building and operating production-grade distributed systems.
Deep experience developing full stack software using Python, Go, or a similar object-oriented language.
Frontend experience using React or similar Javascript frameworks.
Experience architecting distributed and event-driven systems using Kafka or similar technologies.
Database modeling and performance tuning experience with Postgres.
Demonstrated history of designing systems that are simple, flexible, and resilient.
Proven implementation of comprehensive automated testing strategies.
Experience driving architectural decisions in fast-changing environments.
Track record of mentoring and growing junior engineers.

Nice To Haves

Experience building modern fulfillment, logistics, or warehouse systems.
Willingness to spend significant time in Kigali, Rwanda, via travel or relocation.
Production experience with Kubernetes and AWS.

Responsibilities

Deep dive into your users’ problems to simplify operational workflows which enable the business to move efficiently
Architect simple, modular, flexible software systems that evolve with fast changing business needs.
Lead backend and frontend development of major projects across all aspects of a modern tech stack.
Establish strong automated testing practices across unit, integration, and system layers.
Improve reliability, observability, and operational robustness of production systems.
Systematize AI-assisted workflows across development, testing, and operations.
Maintain clear engineering patterns, code quality standards, and review discipline.
Mentor junior engineers through direct coaching, pairing, and design reviews.
Increase team throughput by reducing friction, simplifying architecture, and eliminating waste.