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Staff Software Engineer, Healthcare

Zipline
📍 KigaliCDI🗓️ about 2 months ago

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Kigali
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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 Zipline’s Nest Applications Software team builds the fulfillment, maintenance, and flight systems behind automated delivery operations in Africa. These systems manage medical inventory, order processing, flight coordination, supply-chain and financial workflows, and customer ordering and tracking. You will own critical decisions across these connected workflows, helping operators and customers see accurate information, move orders through fulfillment, and coordinate reliable deliveries. Your work will connect field operations, internal business teams, and customer-facing applications as the network grows. What You’ll Do Own end-to-end software for fulfillment, maintenance, and flight workflows that support Zipline operations in Africa. Partner with operations, supply chain, finance, and customer-facing teams to simplify workflows and resolve high-impact user problems. Lead backend and frontend delivery for major projects, from architecture and data models through implementation and production rollout. Design modular distributed and event-driven systems that can adapt as operational and business needs change. Build automated unit, integration, and system testing that protects critical inventory, order, and flight-coordination workflows. Improve production reliability, observability, and robustness so teams can identify issues and make sound operational decisions. Raise engineering effectiveness through code review, design standards, mentoring, and AI-assisted development, testing, and operational workflows. What You’ll Bring 10+ years building and operating production-grade distributed systems. Deep full-stack development experience with Python, Go, or a similar object-oriented language, plus React or a comparable Java Script framework. Experience architecting distributed, event-driven systems using Kafka or similar technologies. Strong database modeling and performance-tuning experience with Postgres. A track record of designing software that is simple, flexible, resilient, and supported by comprehensive automated testing. Experience making architectural decisions in a fast-changing operational environment and mentoring junior engineers through coaching, pairing, or design reviews. Ability to travel 3-4 times a year to visit our operations in Africa; desire to travel more extensively or to relocate near our operations is a plus. Experience with fulfillment, logistics, or warehouse systems is valued. What Else You Need To Know Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities. 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!

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