Software Engineering Lead, Zipline
$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
- Our ideal candidate works well in startup environments, is comfortable wearing many hats, and can work with other engineers on the team to produce impressive results
- 9+ years experience in software engineering
- 3+ years as an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role directly managing teams of 3+ engineers in a fast-paced environmentHands on technical leadership with a strong software engineering background
- An understanding of backend or full stack development and microservice architecture
- A track record of building and leading software teams focused on cloud applications
- Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and executive leadership
- Previous experience in autonomy, robotics, or hardware is nice to have but not required
What the job involves
- Zipline builds and operates fleets of delivery drones to get critical and life-saving products, fast, to where they’re needed
- To power this, our software team is building out long term, scalable solutions to expand rapidly, while empowering our world class distribution centers to serve our customers as fast as possible
- As a lead, you will be responsible for setting the course for your team, building roadmaps with your customers, and helping grow the impact of the folks you support
- We’re looking for an engineering lead excited to lead a small but mighty team of software engineers responsible for our Fleet Applications
- These tools are the core toolkit that our operations team use to interact with our deployed fleet of assets in real time
- The tools visualize our fleet of autonomous vehicles, enable interaction with the vehicles via high level commands and visualize contextual information about the state of the fleet and the health of our assets
- You will work on the applications that let us wrangle an ever growing fleet, with expanding autonomy capabilities
- Lead a team of 5+ engineers at different points in their career
- Work across engineering, operations, and program management to deliver outsized results and guide the next generation of autonomous aircraft
- Hire, mentor, and grow excellent engineers
- Hold a high bar for engineering best practices
- Help define the vision for our Fleet Applications in conjunction with your customers internally
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.
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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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Founders
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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