About the role

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.

What you’ll do

Team Leadership

  • Hire and grow this org from the ground up, fostering strong leaders and mentoring junior talent
  • On day one, you’ll be leading a small and scrappy team of software engineers
  • You’ll have flexibility and resources to build a world-class infra team

Technical Leadership

  • Hold the bar for high technical excellence in your org
  • Build infrastructure that levels up other teams’ reliability and scalability
  • Continue growing a culture of engineering excellence

Platform Leadership

  • Define a clear vision and roadmap for our infrastructure
  • Evangelize the platform to the rest of the software team

What you’ll bring

  • Experience building software engineering teams
  • Experience shaping an organization to move faster as it scales
  • Experience building complex distributed infrastructure that supports production loads
  • Expertise in modern web technologies and design patterns
  • A strong “generalist engineering” mindset, ready to dive in and contribute across many problems across Zipline
  • Excitement to be a technical leader and mentor to the organization

Nice to haves

  • Experience leading multiple teams at once
  • Experience working with AWS
  • Experience working with event driven architectures (e.g. Kafka)
  • Experience supporting and developing micro service meshes
  • Experience working with and designing system that process PHI or protected information
  • Experience developing safety-critical application

What else you need to know

The starting cash range for this role is $170,000 - 210,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.
 
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 are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
 
Please Note

We have received reports stating that certain individuals are reaching out to people under false pretenses, claiming to be Zipline employees, affiliates, agents, or representatives. They may seek to gain access to your personal information or to acquire money from you by offering fictitious employment opportunities or by claiming that they are contacting you on Zipline’s behalf.

Genuine Zipline employees or representatives will never ask you for money or payment in exchange for employment opportunities or other related services. Any such offer of employment or any other service in exchange for fees that claims to be from us is deceitful and part of a fraud.

If you believe you have been targeted by a fraudulent party, we ask that you immediately get in touch with us via email at security@flyzipline.com upon receiving a suspicious offer or claim.

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