Central is looking to solve the problem of back-office work for startups, including payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more, by using AI agents and human experts to automate these tasks.
Requirements
- Experienced systems architect: You've designed and delivered large-scale, stateful architecturesmodeling complex domains, defining clear data schemas, and ensuring end-to-end reliability.
- Distributed-transaction specialist: You've implemented robust patterns for coordinating multi-step workflows across disparate services and third-party APIshandling two-phase commits, sagas, idempotency, and compensating actions to keep data consistent.
- Deep transactional-pipeline expertise: Comfort building reconciled workflows with audit trails and automated recovery, especially when orchestrating financial or compliance-related operations.
- Reliability-first mindset: You bake in observability (metrics, logs, alerts), fault tolerance, and graceful degradation from day one.
- Scalability & performance focus: You understand caching, queueing, rate-limiting, and have tuned systems to handle rapid growth without sacrificing latency or correctness.
Responsibilities
- Architect mission-critical workflows: Design, build, and maintain stateful, end-to-end systems that ensure data integrity (idempotency, reconciliation, audit trails) and meet stringent compliance and reliability requirements.
- Iterate rapidly: Ship incremental, production-ready features in daysprototype, gather real user feedback, and refine relentlessly.
- Own your domain: Act as the technical product lead for core platform areassetting standards for code quality, observability, testing, and operational excellence.
- Delight and empower customers: Partner with Product and Support to translate user pain points into clean, intuitive solutions that scale from a single startup to enterprise.
- Push the limits with AI: AI is part of the DNA at Central. We believe we can leverage it in a variety of ways to automate things that were previously impossible and create completely new user experiences.
Other
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k (US employees only)
- Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- Remote work
- Note for US Roles: We do not provide visa sponsorship. You must be authorized to work in the US.
