This is a senior engineering position with growth potential as the company expands. It is a remote position and works directly with the CTO.
Use your extensive knowledge of web application development and infrastructure to help build beautiful products for retail communication. Zipline is being tested by a number of awesome retail companies, like Gap, Eileen Fisher, Levi's, Ross, and Sprint. Our goal is to transform the way that the entire 4.4 trillion dollar retail industry communicates with its store employees. You will improve the way that millions of people work and save them from tedious work with archaic old systems (think fax machines and voicemails).
You will be responsible for large pieces of the architecture, starting with our core messaging and reporting architecture and growing from there. We already have a private beta that showcases the functionality, but we need it to be solid. The role will grow and change as the company does and you can expect to tackle significant challenges as we scale, including building out our API and all the million other things that go into making a full-featured modern SaaS app.
You will help define our company culture through hiring decisions, process design, and your personality. You don't need to have experience with management, but a desire to cultivate the skill-sets of those that you work with will go a long way to making this a rewarding experience.
Our tech stack is currently PostgreSQL, Rails, and React.js, however we are big fans of performance and are evaluating Node or the JVM for the middle tier. You will be central to those conversations and influence the direction that we take.
Tell us about your worst retail experience, show us some code samples, and let's talk about how to make the retail experience better for everyone.
It is a remote position. Compensation is competitive and includes equity + benefits. Drop an email to [email protected] to get the conversation started.
About Zipline
Did you know that 70% of retail locations don't actually implement the strategies recommended by operations at HQ? Large retailers spend $millions to gather and analyze data to help them optimize their businesses. Many, like Gap, have world class operations teams that rely on this data to make decisions that impact thousands of locations worldwide. However, once these strategic decisions are made, only 30% of stores are actually doing what they're supposed to do! Zipline closes the loop by providing an easy-to-use, cost effective solution to bring compliance from 30% to 100% and recapture the $billions that retailers are leaving on the floor due to their inability to actually implement and execute strategic decisions across retail locations.
The company is based in San Francisco and Vancouver. It was founded by Melissa Wong and Jeremy Baker. Melissa spent 10 years managing Old Navy's field communications team where she learned the critical details required to make an efficient retail organization. Jeremy is a full-stack engineer who previously co-founded a successful Silicon Valley startup and worked at Yahoo!. Our seed investors include former execs and engineers from Yammer, Yahoo, Factual, and Google.