Software Engineer, Manna Drone Delivery
Airspace
Drone delivery service
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Drone delivery service
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve the world by making lightning-fast suburban deliveries affordable, green and safe.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys complex systems, clear ownership, and seeing their work directly impact real-world operations
- Strong professional experience building backend or systems software in production
- Proficiency in Java or C++ (experience with both is a plus); Python experience beneficial
- Experience designing and owning services in distributed or real-time systems
- Solid understanding of relational databases, especially Postgres
- Track record of owning features or subsystems end-to-end
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- Experience with routing, optimisation, simulation, or autonomy-adjacent systems
- Background in safety-critical, robotics, aviation, or high-reliability domains
- Experience working with camera systems, telemetry, or geospatial data
- Familiarity with frontend tools such as React for operational UIs
- Exposure to incident response and reliability engineering practices
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on the Airspace team, you work on major subsystems within our airspace and control platform. You’ll design robust backend services and influence system architecture while working on problems where correctness and reliability matter deeply
- Contribute to services for routing, deconfliction, airspace management, and ground control
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex features, from design through rollout and monitoring
- Work across Java, C++, and Python services, with Postgres as a core data store
- Build and evolve APIs and data models that support real-time decision-making
- Design systems with failure modes, observability, and recovery in mind
- Collaborate closely with Aircraft, QA, and Operations teams to ensure safe and effective system behaviour
- Contribute to technical standards and best practices across the Airspace domain
- Take ownership of technical decisions and unblock delivery when needed
Our take
Manna Drone Delivery is a drone company that began operating hyper-locally in Ireland, making small deliveries in partnership with JustEat, Tescos, and a number of coffee and book shops. The service has proven popular to the tune of thousands of deliveries, and Manna is now expanding towards full rollout.
Efficient, low-emission, and high agility drones are expected to be the future of last-mile deliveries. Whilst there are some questions as to whether they’re a smart addition to built up areas, the consensus is that they will at least provide a welcome complement to other delivery vehicles. As such, getting in early with the correct technology could open up substantial doors for Manna.
The company is eyeing up US expansion, which may seem ambitious for the relatively small outfit. Bear in mind, however, that Alphabet’s suburban drone delivery subsidiary Wing is carrying out similar hyper-local testing in Logan Australia. This means there’s certainly no major player emerging yet in the US - and the prime candidates are doing precisely what Manna is to get their foot in the door.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$32.3m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2021
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $62.5m
Company HQ
Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Bobby Healy
(Founder & CEO)Has spent a period as Non Executive Director at Chill Insurance and CarTrawler, at the latter of which he also worked as CTO and Board Director. Is also currently a Board Director at DEBRA Ireland.
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