Staff Software Engineer, Healthcare — Systems & Integrations

flyzipline; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance bonuses

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

flyzipline is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own and drive the software powering reliable healthcare delivery operations at a global scale. This hands-on role combines full-stack work with deep backend ownership, guiding major technical decisions across interconnected workflows.

You will lead architecture across teams, design robust APIs and event-driven systems, and mentor other engineers while collaborating with operations, supply chain, and finance to solve high-impact problems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of production software engineering experience.
• Experience in staff-level or leadership roles at scale.
• Deep Go backend expertise and ability to set technical direction.
• Experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven systems; Kafka or comparable technologies.
• Strong database design and performance experience, including Postgres.
• A record of owning architecture across teams and migrations.
• Clear, effective communication in English.
• Ability to travel internationally ~3 times per year.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end software for fulfillment, maintenance, inventory, and flight workflows.
• Lead architecture across multiple teams, spanning 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 reviews, mentoring, and technical leadership.
• Partner with operations, supply chain, finance, and customer-facing teams to resolve high-impact problems.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Leadership

Architectural direction

English communication

Tools

Kafka

Postgres

Job description

Role overview

A Staff Software Engineer role focused on the software that powers reliable healthcare delivery operations at a global-scale autonomous logistics organization. The position is a hands-on, product-oriented full-stack role with deep backend ownership, leading major technical decisions across interconnected operational workflows. The mission is to build systems that stay simple, resilient, and adaptable as the network and partner base expand across multiple continents.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end software for fulfillment, maintenance, inventory, and flight workflows
• Lead architecture across multiple teams, spanning 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

Requirements

• 10+ years of production software engineering experience, including staff-level technical scope
• Experience in both a high-engineering-bar organization working at scale and a startup or scale-up environment building from the ground up with limited devops support and fast pace
• Deep production expertise in Go, with the ability to set technical direction for backend services and develop other engineers' Go capability
• Experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven systems; Kafka or comparable technologies are strongly relevant
• Strong database design and performance experience, including Postgres
• A record of owning architecture across teams, leading significant migrations, mentoring engineers, and working directly with customers or external stakeholders
• Clear, effective communication in English
• Ability to work from the US East Coast or London, UK, and travel internationally approximately three times per year

Nice to have

• Integrating with external partner APIs or partner systems
• Designing reliable integration points, API contracts, authentication, error handling, observability, and integration workflows
• Background in healthcare, fulfillment, logistics, warehouse management, or e-commerce systems

Benefits and work setup

• Starting cash range for US-based candidates: $180,000 to $220,000, depending on experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact
• Total compensation may include equity, overtime pay, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, sales incentives, medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and additional benefits