Software Engineer: Full-Stack Applications
South San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Zipline is developing the most advanced fleet of autonomous vehicles in the world to serve its mission of providing life-saving medical products across the planet. To do this, we're building a small team of the best and brightest software engineers to come up with simple solutions to really hard problems.

We are looking for a full-stack developer excited to build products that will make a difference. Someone with a strong drive for making great products.

Some problems you might work on:

* Creating an easy and dependable system for doctors and nurses to order life-saving supplies from Zipline
* Designing interfaces that talk to machines, like launchers and airplanes, focusing on safety and ease-of-training
* Beginning to design a series of applications that track airplane components, scheduled maintenance, spares, and faults to help achieve higher levels of reliability in flight
* Empowering our operations teams with amazing software tools to process orders, prepare aircraft, track inventory, and monitor flight status
* Providing air-traffic controllers and medical partners around the world with visibility into our operations

To be successful you will have experience:

* Standing up full-stack web applications, from server provisioning through backend technology selection, front-end coding to production rollout
* Excitement to work in an environment where you'll be learning quickly from your users to define a product
* Data model design in relational databases - identifying relationships between objects and encoding that into a data model
* Accounting for the security of applications exposed on the internet
* Making use of extensive unit tests to produce rock-solid code that can be iterated on quickly
* Working with other extraordinary engineers to make wise technical decisions for the company
* 3 years of professional experience in a software engineering role

We'll be stoked if you have:

* Experience building native mobile and mobile web applications
* Excellence in Python, SQL, Linux, and React
* Experience with distributed system technologies like Cassandra DB and Kafka
* Built systems that work in low-connectivity situations
* Familiarity with languages beyond the web, like C, C++, Swift, and Bash
* Human-Robot interaction design

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position, but you are unsure if you meet all the requirements listed above, please apply!

Our mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. To achieve this, we are building an awesome team of smart, dedicated engineers who come from all sorts of backgrounds.