Director of Software Engineering – Marketplace
Core
Lead the engineering organization building the Zipline app, partner tools for restaurants/retailers, and on-demand fulfillment systems connecting customers and merchants to the drone delivery network.
Role type
Director of Software Engineering (Marketplace)
Builds
Consumer-facing ordering app, merchant integration tools, pricing/prioritization services, and high-velocity engineering tooling.
Domain
Autonomous logistics, drone delivery, two-sided marketplace, e-commerce
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Leading and scaling product engineering teams, technical judgment and architecture guidance, building organizations and developing leaders, product sense and prioritization, cross-functional partnership, operating in ambiguity
Preferred skills
Experience with marketplace/e-commerce/pricing/two-sided-platform products, thought leadership on AI-driven software building
Technologies
None explicitly stated
Responsibilities
Lead and grow an A-team of software engineers and managers, establish technical and product strategy balancing delivery and velocity, build reliable scalable marketplace products and manage architecture/technical debt, partner with product team to build consumer experience, create strong operating rhythms for predictability and visibility
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with leadership scope