Senior Software Engineer, Zipline
Consumer Apps
$170-210k
3-5 days a week in office
Transforming the way goods move
Be an early applicant
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$170-210k
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To open up access to emergency medical care to everyone in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years experience developing high-quality mobile applications using React Native and TypeScript
- Solid understanding of mobile application architecture, performance optimization, and testing best practices
- Experience shipping user-facing features in collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, influence roadmap decisions, and mentor other engineers
- A product mindset and passion for crafting intuitive, delightful customer experiences
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of owning problems end-to-end
What the job involves
- The Consumer Experience team at Zipline is responsible for building the core digital experiences that connect our customers to the world’s first autonomous drone delivery network
- From placing an order to watching it arrive in real time, our team is shaping how people interact with Zipline — and redefining what convenience looks like for food, retail, and healthcare delivery
- We’re looking for a seasoned, product-minded software engineer to help scale Zipline’s consumer-facing mobile and web applications
- You’ll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our mobile stack, with a strong focus on quality, performance, and delightful user experience
- You’ll collaborate closely with engineering and cross-functional partners to imagine, build, and iterate on end-to-end features that directly impact Zipline customers every day
- This is an opportunity to take ownership of complex problems at the intersection of mobile development, systems design, and product innovation — and help define what instant logistics looks like at global scale
- Take technical ownership of critical features across Zipline’s consumer mobile and web apps, from design through deployment and iteration
- Shape the architecture and evolution of our React Native mobile codebase to support scalability, maintainability, and performance
- Drive initiatives to improve app quality — including integration testing, performance monitoring, and build pipeline automation
- Collaborate cross-functionally to build user-facing features that are fast, elegant, and grounded in a strong understanding of customer needs
- Identify opportunities to use native modules or platform APIs to extend our React Native app’s capabilities — and lead their development when needed
- Influence our long-term mobile technical roadmap and contribute to team-wide engineering best practices
- Support and mentor teammates through thoughtful code reviews, architectural guidance, and shared technical decision-making
Our take
Zipline is transforming the way goods move by creating the first logistics system that serves all humans equally via a drone delivery service. As the first emergency drone logistics operation, Zipline is fundamentally changing how we transport emergency medical supplies and has expanded into commercial deliveries. It's partnered with several major companies, including Walmart.
Zipline has an edge over potential future competitors as the company has thousands of hours and over 35 million miles of flight to prove the system is safe and effective. It’s also one of the first companies to receive a full commercial operating certificate, putting Zipline in a strong position to continuously branch out to other markets.
The unicorn company operates globally and has signed its first government contract with Rwanda to provide up to 2 million drone deliveries by 2029. It is also aiming to start commercial deliveries to individual households in the near future. With big companies such as Amazon and Walmart examining “instant” delivery options, Zipline has a proven track record and the equipment and logistics in place to provide such services. 2023 funding pushed Zipline's valuation to a staggering $4.2 billion, indicating a bright future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2023
$330m
SERIES F
Jul 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $813.7m
Company benefits
- Generous parental leave
- Generous vacation policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly team events
- Healthcare, vision, and dental
- Healthy, delicious meals and snacks
- Dog-friendly offices
Company HQ
South San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Having studied Economics and Biotechnology at Harvard, they worked for almost 11 months as a self-employed rock climber. They combined their academic and practical experience to co-found Zipline in July 2011.
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