Zapier is looking to improve the productivity and velocity of its engineering organization by building high-leverage internal platform tools and processes, with a focus on AI-powered developer experiences and cutting-edge productivity tooling.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software development experience (including 2+ years in a senior or tech lead role)
- Experience with Python and Typescript
- Strengths in building resilient backend services and APIs as well as responsive frontend interfaces using modern frameworks
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development
- Experience with AI pair programmers, code review bots, or ML-driven CI optimization
- Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, infrastructure, or local dev environments
- Experience with command-line utilities, IDE extensions, web dashboards, and APIs
Responsibilities
- Build Internal Developer Tools & Platforms: Design, develop, and maintain internal products that improve developer productivity and flow.
- Integrate AI into Developer Workflows: Build and integrate AI-powered experiences that augment how engineers build, test, and deploy software.
- Collaborate with Engineering Teams: Partner with engineers across the company to understand friction points in their workflows.
- Create and Evolve Golden Paths: Help define and promote standard, high-velocity development patterns.
- Enhance CI/CD and Developer Workflows: Partner with DevOps and Reliability teams to improve how code moves from laptop to production.
- Dogfood, Measure, and Iterate: Use the tools you build and gather feedback to assess impact and guide iteration.
- Contribute to Developer Documentation: Maintain clear, discoverable guides for internal tools, frameworks, and best practices
Other
- Passion for high-leverage, internal platform work
- Enjoy building high-leverage tools that multiply impact across dozens of teams
- Thrive in a collaborative, experimentation-driven environment
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work closely with engineers across platform and product engineering teams
