Senior Full Stack Engineer - Africa at Zipline

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable full-stack web applications with a focus on reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations to define system requirements and deliver tools that support real-world logistics.
• Shape architectural decisions and data flows as the system scales across geographies, complexity, and business needs.
• Help improve the developer experience by addressing gaps in tooling, documentation, and system clarity.
• Lead by example in code reviews, technical discussions, and shared problem-solving to support a growing, junior team.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining full-stack web applications in production environments.
• Strong proficiency with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue) and back-end technologies (e.g., Python, Node.js, or Go).
• Experience designing and working with relational databases, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems.
• A track record of contributing to system architecture or improving developer workflows within a team.
• Comfort guiding technical decisions in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with evolving requirements and ambiguous constraints.
• Clear, concise communication skills and a thoughtful approach to code reviews, documentation, and shared ownership.