Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Zapier
AI Capabilities
$170.8-225k
CA$170.8K – CA$225K + Offers Equity + Offers Bonus
Workflow automation service
Open for applications
Workflow automation service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$170.8-225k
CA$170.8K – CA$225K + Offers Equity + Offers Bonus
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, MCP 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 is looking for an Sr. Engineer (backend-leaning fullstack) to join our AI Capabilities team
- The AI Capabilities team is responsible for building Zapier’s AI platform. They provide the orchestration, tooling, memory, model gateway, code execution, and observability foundations that power every AI experience across Zapier
- Our mission is to help product teams ship high-quality, trustworthy, and easy-to-use AI features quickly and confidently by consolidating core AI backend services into a set of well-designed APIs backed by shared, scalable infrastructure
- We focus on building fewer things at a higher level of quality, creating a platform that is intuitive for developers and rock-solid for users
- As a Sr. Engineer on the AI Capabilities team, you’ll work across our backend and frontend surfaces to build durable systems that enable LLMs, agents, and AI-powered workflows to operate seamlessly inside millions of customer automations
- You’ll shape the patterns, tools, and infrastructure that define how AI behaves across Zapier in production—not just in prototypes, but at real scale
- We’re a globally distributed team, working together to make Zapier the trusted, go-to partner for business automation. If you’re interested in advancing your career at a fast-growing, profitable, impact-driven company, then read on…
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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