Senior Frontend Engineer, Zapier
Enterprise Zone
$174.2-261.2k
+ Equity + Bonus. For Canadian employees CA$174,000 – CA$261,200
Workflow automation service
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Workflow automation service
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$174.2-261.2k
+ Equity + Bonus. For Canadian employees CA$174,000 – CA$261,200
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- You're a proven SaaS frontend builder. You have deep experience designing, developing, and maintaining complex mission-critical user interfaces. You're fluent in React and TypeScript, have strong opinions about component architecture, and know how to build systems that scale. Frontend craft is where you go deep, but you're comfortable following the work wherever it leads
- You work through AI agents, not alongside them. Your daily development workflow is built around directing and reviewing agent-written code, not writing it by hand. You have opinions about which models to use for which tasks, you've hit real failure modes and built mitigations, and your workflow is actively evolving. Bonus: you use multi-agent patterns, enable others on your team to build faster with AI, or have scaled AI impact beyond yourself
- You're not afraid to leave the frontend. When a problem traces back to an API contract, a backend service, or another team's repo, you follow it there and fix it rather than file a ticket and wait. You've shipped features end-to-end, opened PRs outside your lane, and done it without asking for permission
- You bridge design and engineering. You have a strong visual sensibility and can hold your own in a design conversation. You know when to push back on a design for technical reasons and when to push back on a technical constraint for user experience reasons. You're a collaborator, not a handoff recipient
- You work close to the customer. You don't wait for product specs or UX research to tell you what to build. You pull customer tickets, talk to CSMs, review feedback, and use that context to drive what you ship. You think in milestone slices: what's the smallest thing I can get into production that moves us forward and teaches us something?
- You ship through ambiguity. When there's no spec, no designs, and no clear path forward, your first instinct is to gather customer evidence, break the problem into a narrow first slice, and get rough working software into production within days, not weeks. You use working prototypes to drive alignment with stakeholders rather than waiting for consensus before building. You treat discarded work as a fast learning loop, not a loss
- You own your work and yourself. You take initiative without waiting for permission and you ship fast and share early. But you also own your mistakes, your gaps, and your role in friction, openly. You say "I don't know" and "I was wrong" out loud, early, and without shame. You hold yourself to a high standard and can articulate where you've fallen short, not just where you've succeeded
- You communicate proactively in an async-first culture. You manage up and across, flagging risks, surfacing decisions, and keeping stakeholders informed without being asked. You use written artifacts, working demos, and rough prototypes as your primary communication tools, not meetings
- You believe enterprise can move fast. You've seen (or are excited to prove) that shipping to enterprise customers doesn't have to mean slow, waterfall-style cycles. You know how to balance compliance, security, and rollout considerations with tight iteration loops and rapid customer feedback. You see enterprise constraints as interesting design problems, not reasons to slow down
- We're looking for the best fit for each of our roles, regardless of the type of companies in your background, so we encourage you to apply even if your skills and experiences don’t exactly match the job description
- Education is not a requirement for our roles; however, if you receive an offer, you will need to include your most recent educational experience as part of our background check process
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer who is passionate about solving complex problems, delivering new value to customers, and changing the future of automation for some of the largest companies in industry
- Build intuitive, unified interfaces for organizing, transferring, and governing assets across accounts and products
- Design and implement BFF and API layers that feed multiple frontend surfaces, built to be componentized and reused consistently across Zapier's entire product expression
- Embed AI technology into core product experiences to proactively surface account management insights and suggestions
- Drive technical alignment with senior leaders and stakeholders across the organization
- Collaborate closely with Design and Product to balance polish with pace, and ship iterative solutions that move the business forward
- Tackle challenges in data standards, compliance workflows, and cross-product integrations
- Deliver fast-paced solutions and POCs, prioritizing impact while balancing short-term execution with long-term technical vision
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: 6 April 2026 at 05:00 BST
- We ask is that you answer a few in-depth questions in our application that would typically be asked at the start of an interview process. This helps speed things up by letting us get to know you and your skillset a bit better right out of the gate. Please be sure to answer each question; the resume and CV fields are optional
- After you apply, you are going to hear back from us—even if we don’t see an immediate fit with our team. In fact, throughout the process, we strive to never go more than seven days without letting you know the status of your application
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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