Senior Software Engineer, Zapier
Integration Platform Zone
$170.8-224.1k
Salary applicable to US applicants, for Canadian applicants the range is CA$170.8K – CA$224.1K. + Equity and bonus for all
Workflow automation service
Be an early applicant
Workflow automation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$170.8-224.1k
Salary applicable to US applicants, for Canadian applicants the range is CA$170.8K – CA$224.1K. + Equity and bonus for all
1001+ employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining backend systems in production
- Experience with Typescript or JavaScript and Python (Django preferred) ideally
- Experience building integrations, APIs, SDKs, or development platforms
- Experience building AI tools or consuming AI products as a power user (configuring agents, MPC servers, LLMs, etc.)
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Databricks or Datadog
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS) and CI/CD pipelines
- Some familiarity with event-based architectures and tools like Kafka, SQS, or similar
- Some familiarity experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and performance tuning
- You value collaboration, pairing, and async communication in a remote team environment
- You’re customer-focused. Whether internal or external, you care about solving real problems and creating great experiences
- You love learning and are curious about ambiguous or novel problems. You’re comfortable asking questions, digging in, and figuring things out
- 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
What the job involves
- Zapier’s Integration Platform Zone is the engine that connects Zapier to the outside world
- We’re responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving the systems behind the thousands of integrations our customers rely on — and preparing those integrations for a new era of AI-powered automation
- We’re hiring a Sr. Backend Engineer to help us build, expand and fix integrations, with a focus on AI integrations
- Also, this team is in charge of the by Zapier tools which are a core component of the Zapier workflow
- 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
- Our mission is to make Zapier the best-connected automation platform in the world — especially for AI and enterprise users
- The Integration Platform Zone is responsible for:
- Creating and maintaining high-quality integrations across key third-party platforms
- Building infrastructure to support AI-native workflows and smart, composable apps
- Supporting integration health and quality across our catalog, ensuring every automation works as expected
- Powering initiatives like Zapier Copilot, By Zapier apps, new AI integrations, and MCP integrations
- As a Backend Engineer in the Integration Platform Zone, you’ll:
- Build, expand and maintain integrations
- Contribute to platform-wide initiatives that make integrations easier to build, test, and maintain
- Improve observability and reliability across integration infrastructure at scale
- Build APIs and backend systems that support integration development, health monitoring, and orchestration
- Support the launch of AI-driven features and help integrate LLM-friendly capabilities across the integration layer
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and data teams to ship impactful features
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.
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
(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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