Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
Zipline
About Zipline
Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain.
Join Zipline and help us to make good on our promise to build an equitable and more resilient global supply chain for billions of people.
About You and The Role
The Business Information Systems (BIS) team is responsible for the software that drives the ability to track hardware through its full lifecycle. As a Software Engineer on the BIS team, you will take part in the design and development of software for Zipline's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing ERP applications with the goal of streamlining business operations, while improving the overall user experience. The role will require you to develop a deep subject matter knowledge about connected ERP and Manufacturing Execution systems. To be a successful candidate for this role you should be a self-starting, driven, resilient individual who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with internal and external software engineers to deliver value to the business stakeholders
- Collaborate with product teams and end users of the tools to ensure what is built streamlines the business and creates a user experience where the digital workflow aligns with the physical process
- Design and develop new modules within an open source ERP application which is used to plan, build, and deploy flight hardware.
- Develop intuitive scalable solutions using tools like React, PostgreSQL, Python and other frameworks.
- Increase efficiency, streamline the user experience and eliminate redundancies when possible.
- Continually learn and apply relevant software development practices, patterns, tools, and technologies.
- Know your application! Seek to know all business and technical details of the application you are building.
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years work experience as a full stack engineer
- Experience in frontend development, using tools such as: React, Javascript, Typescript, etc.
- Experience in backend development, using tools such as: Python, Node JS, etc.
- Experience with relational databases, using tools such as: Postgres, Sqlalchemy, Prisma, etc.
- Knowledge of database fundamentals like indexing, schema migrations, normalizing tables, and managing backup
- Distributed Source Control, using tools such as Git