Senior Software Engineer, Zapier
AI Orchestration Zone, Frontend Leaning
$170.8-224.1k
Canada: CA$170.8K – CA$224.1K. Plus bonus and equity
Workflow automation service
Be an early applicant
Workflow automation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$170.8-224.1k
Canada: CA$170.8K – CA$224.1K. Plus bonus and equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience building and maintaining production web applications, including 2+ years in a senior-level role
- Experience working across the stack — with React/TypeScript/Next.js on the frontend and Python or Node.js on the backend
- Comfort designing and consuming REST APIs, managing state, and working with real-time user interactions
- Familiarity with LLM-powered systems, semantic search, or AI orchestration frameworks is a plus
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/SQS, or other modern backend infrastructure
- You lead with curiosity, pragmatism, and clarity — especially in fast-evolving, ambiguous spaces
- You’re user- and outcome-oriented: you care about building the right thing, not just the technically elegant one
- 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
- We’re hiring Senior Full Stack Engineers (frontend leaning) to help take this product from powerful prototype to intuitive, reliable, and production-scale experience. You’ll collaborate closely with AI experts, product managers, designers, and platform engineers to bring LLM-native workflows to life — with users and usability always at the center
- Design and build features that allow users to delegate tasks and orchestrate workflows using natural language
- Contribute to backend systems that manage agent memory, reasoning, execution, and system integrations
- Build and refine user-facing features and interfaces for initiating, monitoring, and guiding agent behavior
- Collaborate with AI and platform teams to connect Zapier Agents with core orchestration infrastructure
- Own projects end-to-end — from scoping and architecture to implementation, testing, and support
- Improve developer experience, observability, and deployment pipelines as the product matures
- If you’re excited about building real-world applications of AI (not just demos), working across the stack, and shaping the future of autonomous agents in automation — we’d love to hear from you
Application process
- All 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
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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