Staff Software Engineer, Healthcare — Systems & Integrations
Zipline
Job Description
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<h3>About <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/flyzipline">Zipline</a>
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<p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/flyzipline">Zipline</a> is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/flyzipline">Zipline</a> operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. </p>
<p>Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.</p>
<p>Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/flyzipline">Zipline</a> is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.</p>
<p>We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.</p>
</div><h3><strong>About You and The Role </strong></h3><p>As a Staff Software Engineer on the Nest Applications team, you will lead the evolution of the systems behind reliable healthcare delivery operations. You will own major technical decisions across interconnected operational workflows and help build software that remains simple, resilient, and adaptable as the network grows.</p><p>This is a hands-on, product-oriented full-stack role with deep backend ownership. We are looking for an engineer who brings exceptional Go expertise and can raise the technical bar across APIs, integrations, distributed systems, and engineering practices.</p><h3><strong>What You'll Do </strong></h3><ul class="ul1">
<li>Own end-to-end software for fulfillment, maintenance, inventory, and flight workflows.</li>
<li>Lead architecture across multiple teams, from data models and API contracts through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.</li>
<li>Design robust APIs, backend services, and integration patterns that connect field operations, internal teams, and customer-facing products.</li>
<li>Build modular, event