Sr. Frontend Engineer

As Zapier continues to scale our mission to democratize automation, we’re hiring Senior Frontend Engineers across the org. Zapier’s on a mission to make everyone more productive at work. Zapier has helped millions of people build businesses through the power of automation.

If you’re interested in advancing your career at a fast-growing, profitable, impact-driven company, then read on…

We know applying for and taking on a new job at any company requires a leap of faith. We want you to feel comfortable and excited to apply at Zapier. To help share a bit more about life at Zapier, here are a few resources in addition to the job description that can give you an inside look at what life is like at Zapier. Hopefully, you'll take the leap of faith and apply.

• Our Commitment to Applicants

• Culture and Values at Zapier

• Zapier Guide to Remote Work

• Zapier Code of Conduct

• Diversity and Inclusivity at Zapier

Zapier is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

About You

Even though our job description may seem like we're looking for a specific candidate, the role inevitably ends up tailored to the person who applies and joins. Regardless of how well you feel you fit our description, we encourage you to apply if you meet these criteria:

• You have 4+ years of experience.

• You have at least 4 years of software development building web-based software products.

• You love code. You love to take raw ideas and build great products with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. You know JavaScript is imperfect, but you embrace its functional side and genuinely enjoy coding with it. You might like to talk about obscure computer science topics, but really, you just want to write simple code, ship new products and features to customers, and improve existing ones.

• You value collaboration. You understand that building modern software is a team sport, and you enjoy working as part of a tight-knit team. You’re happy to pitch in and help the team, whether by reviewing code, pairing on a tricky problem, or just thinking about how to solve the challenges we’re facing.

• You can balance lots of concerns. Frontend apps have to take into account performance (using networks and devices that we can't control), customer demands, A/B tests, UX research, accessibility, code quality, a rapidly changing ecosystem of languages and modules, and the list goes on. We actually want to ship things too! You can balance those demands without getting overwhelmed and keep the needle moving forward.

• You advocate for the user. You have a keen eye for great design, and you’re empathetic to the needs of the end user. When you see users struggling to succeed you take it as a personal challenge to understand why and help the team build a better product.

• You love learning new things. You love researching new tech and driving forward with the implementation details. Your focus is on frontend JavaScript code, but you can dig in wherever needed. Python, CSS, build tools, shell scripts, you name it. If you don't already know it, you're ready to learn it.

Things You Might Do

That Said, Here Are Some Things You'll Probably Do

Zapier is a small, fast-growing, and remote-first company, so you'll likely get experience on many different projects across the organization.

• Research, guide, and execute frontend architecture changes, including but by no means limited to GraphQL, server-side React rendering and TypeScript typing.

• Work with stakeholders (other Zapier teams, or external partners) to understand requirements, propose solutions, and build something to help those stakeholders succeed.

• Contribute to improving NextJS apps by building reusable React components with modular CSS. Ensure reliable code by leveraging Jest for unit tests and Playwright for end to end testing.

• Refactor or improve existing code as languages, frameworks, or techniques evolve. Help the team pick appropriate tools/libraries/frameworks to solve new problems as they arise.

• Work closely with our product, design, and UX teams to build new products with intuitive experiences that make it effortless to connect different apps together.

• Help put tools, processes, and documentation in place to help us become a better, more effective organization.

• Help teach your colleagues new skills, through code review, discussions, mentorship and coaching. Help us all become better engineers and humans.

• Ship to hundreds of thousands of users every day while having lots of autonomy in terms of code and feature ownership.

• Participate in customer interviews to gain empathy for the user experience and more intuitively design for our customers’ needs.

You’ll also have the opportunity to specialize in a variety of areas of the Zapier codebase. Focusing on a specialization will not limit your growth at Zapier as we believe that each engineer brings a unique perspective and can contribute in all areas. We encourage collaboration and will frequently have engineers contribute across teams to assist with projects.

Zapier Compensation Guiding Principles

Here’s How We Define Our Compensation Principles

We believe all Zapiens should be rewarded competitively and equitably, using practices that are simple and transparent. This philosophy ensures we’re able to find, grow, and retain exceptional people from a broad range of backgrounds.

• Competitive: Zapier pays well among the technology sector.

• Equitable: Consistent pay practices; competency-based pay.

• Simple: Pay is well understood, and pay practices are built for scale.

• Transparent: Zapiens know how pay works, including how their pay is determined.

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