Staff Go Engineer — Healthcare Systems & Integrations

Zipline; Indiana (PA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline, the world’s leading drone-delivery company, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Nest Applications team. You will own the evolution of systems behind reliable healthcare delivery operations, taking major architectural decisions across interconnected workflows and building simple, resilient software at scale.

You will work hands-on with Go, design distributed, event-driven backends, lead multiple teams, mentor engineers, and collaborate with operations, supply chain, finance, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of production software engineering experience with staff-level scope.
• Experience in both large-scale and startup/scale-up environments.
• Deep production expertise in Go and backend services.
• Experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven systems (Kafka).
• Strong database design and performance experience (Postgres).
• Track record of architecture ownership, migrations, mentoring, and customer interaction.
• Clear, effective English communication.
• Ability to work from US East Coast or London, with Africa travel.

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.

Skills

Go expertise

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

API design

Mentoring engineers

Customer/external stakeholders

English communication

Cross-team leadership

Go performance tuning

System reliability

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Cloud platforms

Job description

Zipline, the world’s leading drone-delivery company, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Nest Applications team. You will own the evolution of systems behind reliable healthcare delivery operations, taking major architectural decisions across interconnected workflows and building simple, resilient software at scale.

You will work hands-on with Go, design distributed, event-driven backends, lead multiple teams, mentor engineers, and collaborate with operations, supply chain, finance, and