Software Engineer, Fullstack or Backend (Workflow Zone)
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About Zapier
Were humans who simply think computers should do more work.
At Zapier were not just making softwarewere building a platform to help millions of businesses globally scale with automation and AI. Our mission is to make automation work for everyone by delivering products that delight our customers. Youll collaborate with brilliant people use the latest tools and leverage the flexibility of remote work. Your work will directly fuel our customers success and as they grow so will you.
Job Posted: 8/19/25
Location: Americas
Hi there!
Zapiers 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 were investing in scaling the capabilities reliability and intelligence of our core product experience.
Were hiring Backend Engineers and Fullstack Engineers (backend-leaning) to join several high-impact teams in the Workflow Zone. If youre passionate about building robust systems enabling advanced user workflows and shaping the future of automation wed love to hear from you.
The Workflow Zone is where Zapiers automation magic happens. This zone owns the product experience and execution engine behind creating running and debugging workflows (Zaps). Were focused on building powerful flexible tools that help individuals and teams automate their work with speed and confidence.
As automation use cases grow more complexespecially for Enterprise userswere 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
Were currently hiring for several teams across the zone including:
Editor Creation
Troubleshooting
Runner
Workflow Capabilities
The Editor Creation team is reinventing how users build automationslaying the groundwork for a faster smarter and more intuitive workflow authoring experience. Rather than iterating on legacy patterns this team is redesigning the editors foundations to support new paradigms like AI-assisted creation and more advanced configuration options.
In this role youll:
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 smoothlyand when they dont 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 youll:
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 zones 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 youll thrive.
The Runner team is responsible for reliably executing Zapsfast. Were focused on the core infrastructure that powers Zapiers workflows including scaling for high volume and reducing latency across millions of executions daily.
In this role youll:
Develop and maintain Zapiers 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 layerideal for engineers who like deep technical challenges and shipping resilient high-scale services.
The Workflow Capabilities team expands what workflows can do. Were building system-level enhancements like branching logic enterprise-aware rollouts and smarter automation primitives that support more dynamic use cases.
In this role youll:
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 youre excited about enabling new user possibilities through foundational platform work this is a team where youll make an outsized impact.
About You
Were looking for experienced engineers who bring:
5 years of professional experience developing software with a strong emphasis on backend systems.
Backend experience in Python and Django building APIs and backend services that are reliable and performant.
For Full Stack roles: Solid experience with React (and ideally frameworks like ); youre comfortable contributing to frontend systems when needed.
Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL and an understanding of how to design efficient data models.
Comfort working with APIs and integrations including RESTful APIs webhooks and data transformation across services.
A practical mindset around observability and performance with familiarity in tools like Datadog Graylog or similar.
You value collaboration pairing and async communication in a remote team environment.
Youre customer-focused. Whether internal or external you care about solving real problems and creating great experiences.
You love learning and are curious about ambiguous or novel problems. Youre comfortable asking questions digging in and figuring things out.
Youre versatile and comfortable navigating across codebases services or developer workflows to help the team succeed.
Youve used AI tooling for work or personal useor 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 scaleboth in code and in culture.
If youre 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 wed 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. Were 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 dont 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 useven if we dont see an immediate fit with our fact throughout the process we strive to never go more than seven days without letting you know the status of your application. We know well 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 were excited to work with talented and empathetic people of all identities. Zapier does not discriminate based on someones 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.
Zapier prioritizes the security of our customers information and is dedicated to adhering to all applicable data privacy laws. You can review our privacy policy here.
Zapier is committed to inclusion. As part of this commitment Zapier welcomes applications from individuals with disabilities and will work to provide reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodations are needed to participate in the job application or interview process please contact .
Application Deadline:
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.
Even though were an all-remote company we still need to be thoughtful about where we have Zapiens working. Check out this resource for a list of countries where we currently cannot have Zapiens permanently working.
Employment Type
Full-Time
