- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 1, 2026
- Salary
- $180,000–$220,000 a year
Staff Software Engineer, Healthcare — Systems & Integrations
Job description
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…
Job responsibilities
- 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.
- Establish strong engineering standards through design reviews, code review, mentoring, and technical leadership.
- Partner directly with operations, supply chain, finance, and customer-facing teams to resolve high-impact problems.
Job requirements
- Integrating with external partner APIs or partner systems.
- Designing reliable integrations points and API contracts, authentication, error handling, observability, and integration workflows.
- Healthcare, fulfillment, logistics, warehouse-management, or e-commerce systems.
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