Engineering Manager, Zapier
Integrations
$187.8-281.7k
Salary applicable to US based candidates only; Salary applicable to Canada based candidates: CA$187.8K – CA$281.7K; + Equity; + Bonus
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Workflow automation service
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Workflow automation service
1001+ employees
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$187.8-281.7k
Salary applicable to US based candidates only; Salary applicable to Canada based candidates: CA$187.8K – CA$281.7K; + Equity; + Bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- You are a skilled engineering leader
- You've got a strong background in leading a team of Engineers working in our stack (ideally Typescript & JavaScript, with a side helping of Python, Django, AWS infrastructure)
- You understand how your team’s services work and can provide feedback on designs proposed by your engineers
- You hold a high standard for operational excellence, monitoring service health and addressing issues
- You are energized by platforms and integrations
- You understand the power and challenge of building against APIs
- You are passionate about making integration development easier, faster, and more reliable—especially when AI can augment or accelerate this work
- You’re passionate about AI’s potential in engineering workflows
- You’re excited about a world where tools like generative AI improve developer experience, automate common maintenance tasks, and help expand the integration ecosystem with less manual work
- You are an effective team builder
- This isn't your first rodeo
- You have at least four years of experience managing teams of at least 5 engineers Backend & Frontend Engineers
- You know how to hire, train, and develop engineers from all backgrounds
- You understand the benefits of building a diverse and inclusive engineering team
- You are energized by no-code innovation
- You see the transformative potential in making automation accessible to everyone, and you bring that enthusiasm to your partnerships with product and design teams
- Your engineering expertise gives you unique insights into building powerful yet intuitive no-code tools
- You're excited about the intersection of automation and emerging technologies like generative AI, and you're eager to explore how these advances can empower users to build more sophisticated workflows with less complexity
- You can keep track of, prioritize, and lead multiple projects
- There's no shortage of things you could be doing in a day
- You'll carve out time for functional projects and make sure they solve real problems the team faces -- ideally making development even easier
- You have excellent communication skills
- You regularly work with engineers and other stakeholders from various disciplines, balancing engineering concerns, such as technical debt, with product concerns
- Ideally, you find solutions that address both the team and user needs, but if not, help build understanding around difficult decisions
- You have experience with experimentation
- Utilizing experiments to drive continuous improvements
- These include a combination of bold changes and smaller improvements
- You understand how to optimize for rapid experimentation and follow-up iteration
- You have a service/platform mindset
- You understand that shipping new functionality in this space involves collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements, and building functionality in such a way that it can be reused across multiple product verticals
What the job involves
- We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join the team at Zapier
- We’re on a mission to make everyone more productive at work
- Zapier has helped millions of people build businesses through the power of automation
- Zapier's Integrations team is on a mission to ensure that Zapier has integrations for the AI apps in the market, and to expand and maintain the by Zapier tools
- This team has a close relationship with top stakeholders in the industry to keep up with the new AI apps launched every day
- This role offers a unique opportunity to guide a team working on high-visibility, high-impact projects that are fundamental to Zapier's mission of democratizing automation
- You'll collaborate with product and engineering leaders across the company to evolve our editor from a powerful tool into an indispensable platform that our users can't imagine working without
- Lead a distributed team of engineers responsible for Zapier apps and AI apps owned by Zapier
- Communicate and coordinate with members in different time zones. The team members are located in EST and EU, and there’s a strong culture of asynchronous organization, but we share at least 1 hour to sync when it's required
- Work closely with your engineering function, peer design function, and product function to create a trio that tackles user problems and solutions
- Collaborate on strategy with others automating the creation/expansion/maintenance of integrations with AI, maintaining the quality of the integrations (fix bugs and implement new features), and ideating with the platform teams to enable others
- Develop effective ways to communicate, monitor, and lead your team through weekly one-on-ones and team meetings
- Keep the leadership team informed on your team’s progress in ways that are easy and enjoyable to receive, like one-on-ones, update posts, and regular team hangouts
- Build rapport with each member of the Engineering Team and support them through coaching and mentorship to help level up their skills
- Drive continuous improvement through sprint retros, process improvements, and removal of technical blockers
- Ensure your team defines and executes technical solutions in alignment with Zapier security requirements, architectural guidelines, system design principles, and engineering best practices
- Collaborate across various disciplines (Product Managers, Designers, Researchers) to help set quarterly roadmaps that will achieve business goals through engineering best practices
- Actively recruit, onboard, and train new engineers at Zapier. This might involve tweaking the skills portions of interviews or writing better documentation
- Keep in touch with customer needs by reviewing or participating in customer interviews, design reviews, sales calls, and user testing sessions
- Be tenacious about the quality of our product and set up principles and practices that make sure we deliver highly polished experiences for our enterprise customers
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: October 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM GMT+1
Our take
Even before remote working became the "in thing", freelancers, small business owners, and large organisations have found themselves needing more and more software platforms to serve their operations needs. As people used more software services, Zapier founders saw the need to connect the actions between these softwares and save everyone some time.
Zapier is the largest integration and automation tool for businesses. Since being founded, Zapier has grown its suite of automation offerings across almost every mainstream software service. The company is one of the most successful to come out of Y Combinator, and has also been one of the pioneers of remote working.
Zapier has so far, been able to capitalise heavily on its advantage as first entrants and has had very little actual competition. Software services aren't going anywhere anytime soon and organisations are only going to need more of them. This puts Zapier in a strong place growth-wise but also opens up room for bolder companies to get in on the action. Companies like Airtable and Integromat are already preying on more niche segments of Zapier's market share.
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Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2012
$1.3m
SEED
Total funding: $1.3m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere
- Bonus program
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Great healthcare + dental + vision coverage*
- Retirement plan with company match*
- Stock options for every Zapien**
- 2 annual company retreats to awesome places
- 14 weeks paid leave for new parents
- Home office setup stipend
- Professional development allowance
Additional info
- As a fully remote company with 800+ team members across 40+ states, 38 countries, and 18+ timezones, we’ve adopted a culture of asynchronous work. This work style allows teams to collaborate effectively across locations, time zones, skills, and each individual’s energy levels, and empowers employees to work in a setting that fits their needs. In practice, we live on Slack, with most conversations in public channels. It mimics the open-office feel and allows everyone to search the chat logs if they need to find something that happened when they weren’t around
Leadership
Wade Foster
(CEO & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Zapier, wasEmail Marketing Manager with Veterans United Home Loans, and Customer Development Lead at The Idea Works.
Bryan Helmig
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was previously Product Dev/Manager at Veterans United Home Loans.
Mike Knoop
(Co-Founder)Was CPO and Head of Labs at Zapier before becoming President. Previously was a Graduate Research at the University of Missouri.
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