Senior Software Engineer, Zapier
Workflow, Backend
$174.6-261.2k
+ Equity and bonus. Canada range: 174,200 – $261,000 (CAD)
Workflow automation service
Be an early applicant
Workflow automation service
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$174.6-261.2k
+ Equity and bonus. Canada range: 174,200 – $261,000 (CAD)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about building robust systems, enabling advanced user workflows, and shaping the future of automation, we’d love to hear from you
- 5+ years of professional experience developing software, including at least 2 years in a senior-level role
- Strong backend experience, ideally in Python and Django and/or TypeScript and Node.js, building reliable, scalable, and observable services
- Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL, and the ability to model, query, and optimize data effectively
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, building event-driven systems, and working with data integrations across services
- Proven ability to lead complex technical projects—owning design decisions, balancing tradeoffs, and guiding implementation across multiple contributors
- You proactively coach and support teammates, foster growth through mentorship, and contribute to a culture of feedback and continuous improvement
- You navigate ambiguity with confidence—able to clarify priorities, align stakeholders, and drive toward meaningful outcomes even when goals shift
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Sr Backend Engineer to join the Runner team in our Workflow Zone
- The Workflow Zone is where Zapier’s automation magic happens
- This zone owns the product experience and execution engine behind creating, running, and debugging workflows (Zaps)
- We’re focused on building powerful, flexible tools that help individuals and teams automate their work with speed and confidence
- As automation use cases grow more complex—especially for Enterprise users—we’re evolving the platform to support more sophisticated logic, scalable execution, and AI-native experiences
- You'll be building intuitive and resilient workflow authoring experiences
- Expanding execution capabilities and logic primitives
- Introducing AI-powered tools for creation and troubleshooting
- Improving reliability, observability, and control across the system
- The Runner team is responsible for reliably executing Zaps—fast. We’re focused on the core infrastructure that powers Zapier’s workflows, including scaling for high volume and reducing latency across millions of executions daily
- In this role, you’ll:
- Develop and maintain Zapier’s execution engine, scaling it to handle millions of daily runs
- Improve system performance, reduce latency, and strengthen failure handling
- Design and implement execution primitives that power reliable automation
- Collaborate across infrastructure, product, and platform teams on core system design
- This is a foundational team at the platform layer—ideal for engineers who like deep technical challenges and shipping resilient, high-scale services
Application process
- We ask 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
- 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
- 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
- We know we’ll make mistakes from time to time, so if you ever have questions about where you stand or about the process, just ask your recruiter!
- The anticipated application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later, or if the position is filled
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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