Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Zapier
Developer Impact
$170.8-225k
Canada: CA$170.8K – CA$225k • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Workflow automation service
Job no longer available
Workflow automation service
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$170.8-225k
Canada: CA$170.8K – CA$225k • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- You get energy from improving how engineers work — not just what they build
- You enjoy building high-leverage tools that multiply impact across dozens of teams
- You’re passionate about using AI to push the boundaries of developer productivity
- You thrive in a collaborative, experimentation-driven environment where learning fast matters as much as shipping fast
- You're a Full-Stack builder: You have 6+ years of professional software development experience (including 2+ years in a senior or tech lead role) and experience with Python and Typescript. You’re strengths are in building resilient backend services and APIs as well as responsive, but you know how to build intuitive frontend interfaces using modern frameworks
- You have a Developer Platform Mindset: You’ve built tools, frameworks, or infrastructure that other developers rely on daily. You think about developer workflows holistically — from local dev to CI/CD — and you design for scalability and maintainability
- You're Savvy and using AI Developer Tools: You’re familiar with AI-assisted development. You’ve worked with AI pair programmers, code review bots, or ML-driven CI optimization. You’re eager to explore practical, measurable ways AI can improve engineering velocity
- You're Experimentation & Impact Focused: You thrive in a fast-moving environment that values experimentation. You use data and feedback to validate ideas and iterate quickly. You see “failure” as a learning opportunity
- You're Collaborative Builder: You work closely with engineers across platform and product engineering teams to identify pain points and co-create solutions. You treat engineers as your customers and focus on delivering tangible improvements to their experience
- You Care About Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: You write great documentation, share best practices, and raise the bar for engineering excellence. You care as much about improving team workflows as you do about shipping code
- You're a Strong Systems Thinker: You understand how decisions in CI/CD, testing, infrastructure, or local dev environments ripple through the broader engineering ecosystem
What the job involves
- The Developer Impact team boosts the effectiveness and velocity of Zapier’s engineering organization by improving developer workflows, tooling, and processes — with a strong focus on AI-powered developer experiences and cutting-edge productivity tooling
- We’re not a traditional DevEx team
- We take a hypothesis-driven, experimental approach, dogfooding lightweight solutions, measuring their impact, and rapidly iterating
- We aim to eliminate friction across the software development lifecycle, partnering closely with other platform and product engineering teams to create a seamless, high-velocity developer impact
- If you’re passionate about high-leverage, internal platform work and love experimenting with how AI and automation can transform how developers build software, you’ll thrive here
- Build Internal Developer Tools & Platforms: Design, develop, and maintain internal products that improve developer productivity and flow. You’ll build across the stack — from command-line utilities and IDE extensions to web dashboards and APIs that streamline development workflows
- Integrate AI into Developer Workflows: Build and integrate AI-powered experiences that augment how engineers build, test, and deploy software
- Collaborate with Engineering Teams: Partner with engineers across the company to understand friction points in their workflows. Conduct interviews, shadow developers, and gather feedback to inform priorities. You’ll balance solving immediate pain with building scalable solutions
- Create and Evolve Golden Paths: Help define and promote standard, high-velocity development patterns. Maintain service templates, example apps, and internal frameworks that guide engineers toward best practices
- Enhance CI/CD and Developer Workflows: Partner with DevOps and Reliability teams to improve how code moves from laptop to production. You might optimize build caching, implement smarter test runners, or integrate automated quality checks into CI
- Dogfood, Measure, and Iterate: Use the tools you build. Gather both quantitative metrics (e.g., build time, deploy frequency) and qualitative feedback to assess impact and guide iteration
- Contribute to Developer Documentation: Maintain clear, discoverable guides for internal tools, frameworks, and best practices — ensuring engineers can quickly get up to speed and stay unblocked
- Mentor and Influence: Lead by example through thoughtful code reviews, internal talks, and knowledge sharing. Help shape the technical direction of the team and contribute to its roadmap
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 operational needs. As people used more software services, Zapier founders saw the need to connect the actions between these software and save everyone some time.
Zapier is the largest integration and automation tool for businesses. Since its founding, 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 a pioneer of remote working.
Zapier has so far been able to capitalise heavily on its advantage as one of the 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 position for growth, 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2012
$1.3m
SEED
Sep 2012
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $1.5m
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
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Zapier, wasEmail Marketing Manager with Veterans United Home Loans, and Customer Development Lead at The Idea Works.
Bryan Helmig
(Co-Founder & CTO)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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