About Zipline

Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain.

Join Zipline and help us to make good on our promise to build an equitable and more resilient global supply chain for billions of people.

About You and The Role  

Zipline’s Application Software team builds the tools we use to run our business. We are responsible for the operating system of Zipline – we develop critical applications that enable the manufacturing, maintenance, and service of our drone delivery system. We’re currently creating and improving systems to optimize operations across the business, including within finance, supply chain, inventory, manufacturing, maintenance, and engineering. We also build the software applications that enable the Zipline fulfillment experience, ranging from customer-facing applications for placing orders and tracking deliveries to internal applications for managing inventory and shipping orders. 

We are looking for intelligent, driven, and collaborative engineers who love challenges and aspire to contribute to a profoundly impactful mission. You will take full ownership of complex problems, collaborating with a team of passionate engineers and stakeholders with diverse perspectives to architect and implement solutions that propel Zipline towards its objectives.

What You'll Do  

• Collaborate with software engineers and business stakeholders to deliver impactful full stack software solutions
• Deep dive into your users’ problems to simplify software workflows which enable the business to move efficiently 
• Design and develop applications ranging from from customer-facing applications for placing orders and tracking deliveries to internal applications for managing inventory and shipping orders.
• Develop intuitive scalable solutions using technologies like React, PostgreSQL, Python, and other frameworks.
• Contribute to architectural decisions to build scalable and distributed systems that are used around the world

What You'll Bring 

• 8+ years of professional experience developing full stack software using Python, Go, or a similar object-oriented language.
• Frontend experience using React, Angular, or similar Javascript frameworks, including proficiency in GraphQL for efficient data fetching.
• Database experience with PostgreSQL, Sqlalchemy, or similar database technologies
• Knowledge of database fundamentals like designing schemas, indexing, migrations, normalization, and managing backups
• Experience with version control (Git), continuous integration, and continuous delivery concepts
• Proven experience working with business stakeholders to understand problems and then deliver high impact by architecting and building software solutions

Nice to Haves

• Production experience with Kubernetes and AWS
• Experience with build systems (Make) and package management tools (pip)
• Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment & monitoring

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