Frontend - Data Platform (Autonomy)

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South San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
170K-210K Annually
Senior level
Aerospace • Hardware • Logistics • Robotics • Software • Transportation
Zipline democratizes access to critical medical supplies through instant drone delivery.
The Role
Design and implement frontend interfaces and tools for data-heavy applications supporting Ziplines autonomy and engineering teams. Own frontend architecture, optimize rendering and performance for large datasets, collaborate with backend and data teams on APIs and data models, and improve quality via testing, Storybook, accessibility, and mentoring.
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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.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Build data triage, exploration, and visualization interfaces that help users filter, analyze, and investigate millions of records.
  • Develop frontend tools for Zipline’s data pipelines, helping engineering teams perform high-quality analysis and solve critical autonomy problems.
  • Own frontend architecture for data-heavy applications, including component design, state management, rendering performance, testing, and maintainability.
  • Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive, reliable, and performant user experiences for internal engineering and operations teams.
  • Collaborate with backend, data, and autonomy engineers to shape API contracts, data models, and product workflows that support efficient investigation at scale.
  • Improve frontend quality through reusable design patterns, Storybook coverage, Playwright tests, accessibility, performance, and stability work.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the bar for frontend implementation, product thinking, and maintainable UI architecture.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

  • Experience building production-grade frontend applications with complex workflows, rich interactions, and data-heavy user interfaces.
  • Deep expertise in modern frontend development, including TypeScript, React, state management patterns, Storybook, and Playwright.
  • Experience designing performant interfaces for large datasets, including filtering, search, virtualization, caching, progressive loading, and responsive interactions.
  • Proven ability to improve frontend performance and stability in production systems by diagnosing bottlenecks, reducing latency, preventing regressions, and improving reliability.
  • Ability to work directly with internal users or customers, understand their workflows, and deliver software that improves operational efficiency and data-driven decision making.
  • Strong user-centered product judgment, with the ability to turn ambiguous technical requirements into clear, usable, and scalable experiences.
  • Experience collaborating with backend teams on API design, query patterns, realtime updates, and data contracts.
  • Working knowledge of backend systems, databases, or cloud data stores sufficient to reason about frontend performance and data access tradeoffs.
  • Senior-level engineering judgment: you make pragmatic architectural decisions, write maintainable code, and help teams move quickly without sacrificing quality. 
What Else You Need to Know   
The starting cash range for this role is $170,000 - $210,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
 
Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.
 
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!

Skills Required

  • Production-grade frontend application development experience with complex workflows and data-heavy UIs.
  • Deep expertise in TypeScript and React.
  • Experience with state management patterns.
  • Experience with Storybook for component development and coverage.
  • Experience with Playwright (end-to-end testing).
  • Designing performant interfaces for large datasets (filtering, search, virtualization, caching, progressive loading).
  • Proven ability to diagnose and improve frontend performance and stability in production.
  • Ability to work with internal users, understand workflows, and deliver operationally effective software.
  • Strong user-centered product judgment and ability to translate ambiguous requirements into usable experiences.
  • Experience collaborating with backend teams on API design, query patterns, realtime updates, and data contracts.
  • Working knowledge of backend systems, databases, or cloud data stores sufficient to reason about frontend performance and data access tradeoffs.
  • Senior-level engineering judgment: pragmatic architecture, maintainable code, and mentoring ability.
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The Company
HQ: South San Francisco, CA
375 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Zipline is the world's largest autonomous delivery network and is powered entirely by fixed-wing drones. Our fleet circles the equivalent distance of the equator every 2.5 days, and we have shipped hundreds of thousands of critical medical products across Rwanda, Ghana, and now beginning in the United States.

Why Work With Us

Zipline is the perfect intersection of super cutting-edge tech, deep social mission, and extremely compelling business case. Our small, scrappy, customer-obsessed, humble, and mission-driven team has set the bar for what is possible in the drone logistics industry globally, and has designed some incredibly elegant technology in the process.

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