Senior Backend Software Engineer, Zipline
Aerial Traffic Management
$170-210k
3-5 days a week in office
Transforming the way goods move
Open for applications
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$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
- 7+ years experience in software engineering
- Desire to take on a foundational technical role and contribute to the direction of a new product
- A high bar for technical excellence
- Expertise in modern server technologies and best practices
- Experience deploying systems to cloud providers (AWS, Kubernetes)
- Experience integrating, and potentially contributing to open-source technologies
- Experience designing software for security, scalability, and reliability
- Experience designing APIs and sophisticated data models
- Strong product instincts and empathy for the customer
What the job involves
- We’re looking for world-class software engineers that thrive at launching new products and working through the ‘0 to 1’ phase. This is a unique opportunity to help shape how software and automation will enable a paradigm shift from human-centric management to machine-centric
- Define and build industry-first airspace management technologies to enable the world’s most active commercial drone network to further scale
- Build core services that enable equitable airspace access, flight deconfliction, and simulation across airspace users
- Build systems with a focus on correctness, testability, and auditability
- Contribute to development efforts across the full stack of our codebase, including end-to-end software development lifecycle, system design, implementation, validation, and rollout
- Engage in open-source community related to drone airspace management
- Mentor engineer team members and share best practices to level up a growing team
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
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 values
- Customer obsession - The standard of care
- Ownership - Getting the job done
- Transparency - Breeds trust
- Continuous improvement - Tackling hard problems
- Serve Your Species - Empowering one another
Company HQ
South San Francisco, CA
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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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