Staff Software Engineer – Integrations Platform

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will own the technical direction of Zipline’s integrations platform as a hands-on individual contributor. You will shape the architecture and roadmap across teams, build production software, and enable engineers to deliver partner API integrations. You will create frontend and backend SDKs that enable partners to build great customer experiences in their own apps, alongside reusable connector patterns, development environments, and automated quality checks that help engineering teams build reliable integrations independently. Initial applications include POS and order-aggregation connectors, menu synchronization, and merchant workflows.

Your work will help unlock enterprise deals with major clients by making it easier to integrate with Zipline and launch reliable delivery experiences at scale. You will combine hands-on engineering with architecture and technical leadership, shortening the path from signed partnership to production launch and building a platform that supports Zipline’s commercial growth.

• Enable partner experiences. Build frontend and backend SDKs that enable partners to build great customer experiences in their own apps, along with the integration framework, connector templates, and developer tooling to deliver partner API integrations quickly and consistently.

• Set the platform architecture. Define clear interfaces between partner-specific connectors and Zipline’s core platform, keeping order lifecycle, authentication, authorization, data mapping, and monitoring consistent. Establish API and SDK versioning and compatibility practices so partners can adopt changes safely.

• Make development self-service. Create sandbox environments, partner API simulators, and automated contract tests so engineering teams can develop and validate integrations independently.

• Make launches repeatable. Establish integration acceptance criteria and automated release checks that verify correctness, failure handling, and operational readiness before production rollout.

• Simplify onboarding. Build documentation, reference