Staff Software Engineer, Healthcare — Systems & Integrations
Staff engineer on Zipline's Nest Applications team, owning backend-heavy full-stack systems for healthcare delivery operations — fulfillment, maintenance, inventory, and flight workflows. Core technologies are Go, Postgres, and Kafka-style event-driven distributed systems, with strong emphasis on APIs, integrations, and technical leadership.
- Compensation
- $180K–$220K / yr
- Location
- Remote in USA; Remote, EMEA
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years of production software engineering experience, including staff-level technical scope
- Experience in both a high-engineering-bar organization at scale AND a startup/scale-up environment with limited devops support
- Deep production expertise in Go, able to set backend technical direction and develop other engineers' Go capability
- Experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven systems; Kafka or comparable technologies
- Strong database design and performance experience, including Postgres
- Record of owning architecture across teams, leading migrations, mentoring engineers, and working with customers/external stakeholders
- Clear, effective communication in English
- Ability to work from the US East Coast or London, UK, and travel to Africa approximately three times per year
Nice to have
- Integrating with external partner APIs or partner systems
- Designing reliable integration points and API contracts, authentication, error handling, observability
- Healthcare, fulfillment, logistics, warehouse-management, or e-commerce systems experience
Full description
About Zipline
Zipline 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, Zipline 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.
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.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
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.
About You and The Role
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.
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.
What You'll Do
- Own end-to-end software for fulfillment, maintenance, inventory, and flight workflows.
- Lead architecture across multiple teams, from data models and API contracts through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.
- Design robust APIs, backend services, and integration patterns that connect field operations, internal teams, and customer-facing products.
- Build modular, event-driven systems that can evolve with operational and business needs.
- Improve reliability, observability, automated testing, and operational decision-making for critical workflows.