Senior Backend Software Engineer, Zapier

• If you love working with diverse APIs, debugging complex systems, and mentoring engineers while maintaining high standards for quality and craftsmanship, this is the team for you
• 6+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 2 years at a senior level
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js in production environments and familiarity with legacy code patterns
• Deep systems understanding, you can navigate across different codebases and services to trace issues, understand dependencies, and implement solutions
• Exceptional autonomy and self-direction. You’re comfortable with ambiguity and can translate large, unclear goals into actionable plans, often starting with experimentation to establish baselines
• Strong cross-functional communication skills. You can shift seamlessly between high-level strategy discussions with a PM and detailed technical implementation discussions with a peer
• Passion for mentoring and supporting engineers at various experience levels and communication styles in a collaborative, remote environment
• Quality-focused development with excellent async communication habits. You self-document decisions, write maintainable code, and make it easy for others to collaborate with you
• Curiosity & continuous learning, especially with AI tooling and new approaches to improve efficiency

Desirable

• At Zapier, we’re not just making software—we’re building a platform to help millions of businesses globally scale with automation and AI
• Our mission is to make automation work for everyone by delivering products that delight our customers
• You’ll collaborate with brilliant people, use the latest tools, and leverage the flexibility of remote work. Your work will directly fuel our customers’ success, and as they grow, so will you
• Zapier’s Integration Quality team maintains and improves the most important, revenue-generating integrations at Zapier. We ship directly to customers regularly, adding value consistently every day with lots of autonomy
• We’re hiring a Sr. Backend Engineer to help us scale quality across our integration portfolio
• This is a highly technical, engineering-driven team where you'll proactively improve integration features and reliability, handle API deprecations and migrations, and prevent customer issues before they happen
• You'll work with the Zapier Developer Platform to build features and fix bugs for our highest-priority integrations, while also helping prototype processes and tooling that scale quality improvements across thousands of integrations
• Build features and ship bug fixes for our highest-priority integrations using the Zapier Developer Platform
• Take on the team’s most complex problems—translating ambiguous goals into executable work and establishing measurement strategies
• Use observability data to improve reliability, adopt new API features, and prevent customer issues before they escalate
• Support teammates across experience levels via pair-programming, code reviews, and technical coaching
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and data teams to ship impactful features
• Navigate between services to debug and fix issues that impact integration customers and developers
• This is a critical role at the heart of Zapier’s product. In this position, you’ll:
• Work on systems that support every user’s automations and power hundreds of millions of workflows
• Collaborate across Zapier to improve integration quality and developer experience
• Help position Zapier as the world’s leading AI orchestration platform

• Job Posted: November 12th, 2025