Sr. Software Engineer, Workflow (Backend and Full stack - Backend leaning)

AI at Zapier

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Job Posted: 8/19/25

Location: Americas

Hi there!

Zapier’s Workflow Zone is responsible for the core engine that powers our automation platform. As more teams and organizations depend on Zapier to automate critical workflows we’re investing in scaling the capabilities reliability and intelligence of our core product experience.

We’re hiring Sr. Backend Engineers and Sr. Fullstack Engineers (backend-leaning) to join several high-impact teams in the Workflow Zone. 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.

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. This means:

• 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

We’re currently hiring for several teams across the zone including:

• Editor Creation

• Runner

• Workflow Capabilities

The Editor Creation team is reinventing how users build automations—laying the groundwork for a faster smarter and more intuitive workflow authoring experience. Rather than iterating on legacy patterns this team is redesigning the editor's foundations to support new paradigms like AI-assisted creation and more advanced configuration options.

In this role you’ll:

• Redesign and modernize the Zap creation experience with performance clarity and scale in mind

• Build flexible UI components and configuration flows that support both no-code and AI-assisted automation

• Contribute to foundational infrastructure that enables new editor paradigms and future UX modularity

• Collaborate across Product and Design to streamline the journey from idea to working automation

The Troubleshooting team ensures automations run smoothly—and when they don’t users have the tools to understand why. This team is focused on preventing detecting and resolving workflow errors with clarity and speed.

In this role you’ll:

• Build systems that proactively detect surface and explain errors in user workflows

• Design clear actionable debugging experiences to help users fix issues faster

• Collaborate with Support to turn customer pain points into product improvements

• Strengthen the zone’s culture of reliability observability and resilience

If you enjoy solving messy problems closing feedback loops and turning complexity into clarity for users this is a team where you’ll thrive.

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.

The Workflow Capabilities team expands what workflows can do. We’re building system-level enhancements like branching logic enterprise-aware rollouts and smarter automation primitives that support more dynamic use cases.

In this role you’ll:

• Build foundational logic tools like branching conditional execution and looping

• Design and maintain system-level Zaps that power internal automation at Zapier

• Partner with teams across the company to deliver reusable workflow primitives

• Enhance configuration and control surfaces to support power users and enterprise scenarios

This team operates at the intersection of flexibility and stability. If you’re excited about enabling new user possibilities through foundational platform work this is a team where you’ll make an outsized impact.

About You

We’re looking for experienced engineers who bring:

• 7+ 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

• For Full Stack roles: Advanced experience with React (and ideally frameworks like Next.js); you’re confident working across the stack and delivering cohesive user experiences

• 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.

How We Work

Zapier is a 100% remote team and has been since day one. We value asynchronous communication transparent collaboration and work-life harmony. We believe in building systems that scale—both in code and in culture.

If you’re passionate about shaping the future of AI-driven automation and want to work at a company that cares deeply about its people and its product we’d love to hear from you.

How to Apply

At Zapier we believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us better which is why we have a non-standard application process designed to promote inclusion and equity. 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. 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.

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!

Zapier is an equal-opportunity employer and we're excited to work with talented and empathetic people of all identities. Zapier does not discriminate based on someone's identity in any aspect of hiring or employment as required by law and in line with our commitment to Diversity Inclusion Belonging and Equity. Our code of conduct provides a beacon for the kind of company we strive to be and we celebrate our differences because those differences are what allow us to make a product that serves a global user base. Zapier will consider all qualified applicants including those with criminal histories consistent with applicable laws.

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