Backend Engineer, Zapier
$143.9-215.9k
Canada; CA$143.9K – CA$215.9K + Equity + Bonus
Workflow automation service
Be an early applicant
Workflow automation service
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$143.9-215.9k
Canada; CA$143.9K – CA$215.9K + Equity + Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for experienced backend engineers who bring a mix of technical depth, customer sympathy, empathy, and adaptability
- API Development Experience: You’ve built and maintained APIs, gateways, and integration points that serve real-world production traffic
- Language Proficiency: You’re fluent in Python, with strong experience using Django and ideally the Django REST Framework
- Authentication Knowledge: You’re familiar with OAuth, API keys, JWTs, and other authentication patterns used in secure API systems
- Scale and Reliability Mindset: You design systems for performance, resilience, and maintainability, You think carefully about how features reach customers
- Developer Experience Focus: You care deeply about usability, feedback loops, and how external developers interact with your APIs
- Collaborative Spirit: You thrive in cross-functional environments, engaging openly with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers
- Remote-Ready Discipline: You communicate clearly in writing, work autonomously, and thrive in an asynchronous, distributed team
- Adaptability: You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and enjoy evolving your tools and practices as the team and platform scale
Desirable
- OpenAPI & Code Generation: Experience designing or maintaining OpenAPI specifications or exploring SDK generation pipelines
- AI Development Familiarity: You’ve experimented with AI-powered development tools, or are excited to learn how AI can enhance automation and developer workflows
- Partner Ecosystem Experience: You’ve worked with external partners or developer platforms, helping teams integrate APIs or automation into their products
- Front-End Experience: Familiarity with React and Next.js is a plus, especially for understanding embedded partner experiences and improving developer tools
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Backend Engineer to help shape the future of partner-powered automation through the Powered by Zapier API and other products and services we own, which allow companies to create fully native automation experiences directly inside their products without reinventing the infrastructure behind workflows, triggers, and integrations
- If you're passionate about designing APIs that enable developers to build remarkable automation experiences, thrive on scaling backend systems, and want to play a key role in growing Zapier's ecosystem through partnerships, we'd love to hear from you
- Design and build new partner-facing APIs that power automation and integration directly within partner platforms
- Expand and improve the Powered by Zapier platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and exceptional developer experience
- Enhance partner developer tools and documentation, creating seamless onboarding and implementation experiences
- Balance internal and external needs, ensuring systems are ergonomic and scalable for both Zapier’s engineering teams and external developers
- Collaborate across teams including Platform, Infrastructure, and Product Engineering to ensure smooth integration and interoperability
- Lead technical initiatives, mentor teammates, and contribute to architectural decisions that set long-term direction for the product
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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