Sr. Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Application Software (Remote)

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service, on a mission to ensure access to food, medicine, and essential goods. The Sr. Staff Full Stack Software Engineer will own high-impact software for Zipline’s application platform, collaborating with various teams to design and build systems that enhance operational efficiency and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll own high-impact software across one or more parts of Zipline’s application platform, such as:
• Partner, merchant, and internal operations tools that help teams run the business day to day
• Marketplace, fulfillment, billing, and support systems that connect demand, delivery, and financial correctness
• Network operations software for simulation, real-time visibility, intervention, orchestration, maintenance, and asset health
• Enterprise systems that power manufacturing, supply chain, inventory, traceability, finance, quality, and field operations
• You’ll work closely with the people who use these systems every day, from operators and field teams to manufacturing, supply chain, finance, commercial, product, and partner teams
• You’ll identify ambiguous problems, design durable systems, build production software end to end, and drive adoption
• You’ll solve problems like:
• How do we give operators and partners real-time visibility into a complex physical network?
• How do we keep the network moving when demand shifts, weather changes, assets degrade, or capacity gets tight?
• How do we build financial and operational systems where every transaction, part, order, and aircraft state is traceable?
• How do we automate workflows across manufacturing, supply chain, fulfillment, and field operations without losing correctness?
• How do we design software that scales across countries, metros, verticals, and millions of deliveries?
• These are production systems with immediate operational and business consequences
• You’ll have real ownership, make technical and product decisions, and help shape how Zipline scales

Requirements:

• Have experience building and shipping production software systems
• Bring strong full-stack fundamentals across frontend, backend, services, and data
• Can turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into simple, reliable software
• Combine product instinct with systems judgment
• Care deeply about reliability, correctness, usability, and operational trust
• Enjoy working directly with users and stakeholders to understand real workflows
• Want to shape architecture and product direction, not just implement scoped features
• Are excited to use modern AI tooling to increase velocity while maintaining strong engineering rigor