Zapier's Workflow Zone needs to scale its core engine to support increasing demand for automation and AI, focusing on enhancing capabilities, reliability, and intelligence for complex user workflows, especially for Enterprise clients.
Requirements
- 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
- You’ve used AI tooling for work or personal use—or you are willing to dive in and learn fast.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Build systems that proactively detect, surface, and explain errors in user workflows
- Design clear, actionable debugging experiences to help users fix issues faster
- Develop and maintain Zapier’s execution engine, scaling it to handle millions of daily runs
- Build foundational logic tools like branching, conditional execution, and looping
Other
- 7+ years of professional experience developing software, including at least 2 years in a senior-level role
- 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
- Education is not a requirement for our roles
