Senior Software Engineer, Workflow – Backend

Description

• Redesign and modernize the Zap creation experience with performance, clarity, and scale in mind

• Build flexible UI components and configuration flows that support both no-code and AI-assisted automation

• Contribute to foundational infrastructure that enables new editor paradigms and future UX modularity

• Collaborate across Product and Design to streamline the journey from idea to working automation

• Build systems that proactively detect, surface, and explain errors in user workflows

• Design clear, actionable debugging experiences to help users fix issues faster

• Collaborate with Support to turn customer pain points into product improvements

• Strengthen the zone’s culture of reliability, observability, and resilience

• Develop and maintain Zapier’s execution engine, scaling it to handle millions of daily runs

• Improve system performance, reduce latency, and strengthen failure handling

• Design and implement execution primitives that power reliable automation

• Collaborate across infrastructure, product, and platform teams on core system design

• Build foundational logic tools like branching, conditional execution, and looping

• Design and maintain system-level Zaps that power internal automation at Zapier

• Partner with teams across the company to deliver reusable workflow primitives

• Enhance configuration and control surfaces to support power users and enterprise scenarios

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience developing software, including at least 2 years in a senior-level role

• Strong backend experience, ideally in Python and Django and/or TypeScript and Node.js, javascript, building reliable, scalable, and observable services

• For Full Stack roles: Advanced experience with React (and ideally frameworks like Next.js); you’re confident working across the stack and delivering cohesive user experiences

• Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL, and the ability to model, query, and optimize data effectively

• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, building event-driven systems, and working with data integrations across services

• Proven ability to lead complex technical projects—owning design decisions, balancing tradeoffs, and guiding implementation across multiple contributors

• You proactively coach and support teammates, foster growth through mentorship, and contribute to a culture of feedback and continuous improvement

• You navigate ambiguity with confidence—able to clarify priorities, align stakeholders, and drive toward meaningful outcomes even when goals shift

• You’ve used AI tooling for work or personal use—or you are willing to dive in and learn fast. You explore new tools, workflows, and ideas to make things more efficient, and are eager to deepen your understanding of AI and use it regularly.

Benefits

• Offers Equity

• Offers Bonus

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