Sr. Engineer, Fullstack (Contributor Enablement)

Hi there!

We're looking for a Sr. Full Stack Engineer to join the Contributor Enablement team at Zapier. We’re on a mission to make everyone more productive at work. Zapier has helped millions of people build businesses through the power of automation.

You’ll join a product team focused on enabling contributors. We are enabling Zapier users to invest directly into the Zapier ecosystem to drive new innovations in workflow automation. Our product vision is to motivate and empower Zapier users to build new app functionality and share their work so the whole community can benefit. We’re also integrating AI to expedite the creation process for users building on the App Extensions service, to help them create Zaps faster.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer you will work alongside other Engineers to build out experiences designed in close collaboration with our Product Manager and Designer that will help users new to Zapier get oriented to the product faster and help instill an automation mindset that will allow them to unlock the true power of our products.

If you’re interested in advancing your career at a fast-growing, profitable, impact-driven company, then read on…

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Diversity and Inclusivity at Zapier

Zapier is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

Even though our job description may seem like we're looking for a specific candidate, the role inevitably ends up tailored to the person who applies and joins. Regardless of how well you feel you fit our description, we encourage you to apply if you meet these criteria:

About You

You can build scalable web apps. You have at least 4+ years of software development building web-based software products. You’ve worked across the stack, and though you may know more front-end frameworks or building web services, you can dive into any aspect of an application. Zapier is built on Python, Django, React, Node.js, and AWS.

You can build frontend components. You’ve used a modern frontend framework to develop frontend components. You value user experience and think about reuse as well.

You care about users. You spend most of your time coding but are driven by solving user needs. You contribute to design and product strategy discussions with a broad understanding of both the constraints and opportunities created by technology.

You value code quality. You understand that testing your code and good code coverage is essential in delivering a solid product. You know how to document well and lean on automation whenever possible. You have an understanding of tech debt and can formulate a plan to address it, but know how to ship production-ready code.

You have a systems-oriented mindset. You're inquisitive. You build a deep understanding of problems and are good at spotting patterns. You understand how to design and implement end-to-end software systems.

You value our values. At Zapier, our values are at the heart of how we work together and how we think about our customers. As a remote-first company, our values help develop trust and ensure we collaborate effectively to democratize automation. You recognize how our values can empower meaningful work, you thrive in a collaborative setting, you are eager to continue growing, and you’re excited to be part of the team.

While we don't require a specific number of years of experience, senior backend engineers at Zapier typically have 7+ years of professional engineering experience, with at least 3 building distributed, scaleable web-applications.  

 

Things You Might Do:

Zapier is a fast-growing,  remote-first company. You'll likely get experience on many different projects across the organization. That said, here are some things you'll probably do:

• Building and scaling web products that directly impact our customers or partners.

• Developing frontend components and UIs that are reusable and highly performant.

• Design and build RESTful APIs to be used in a front-end application

• Run experiments to learn what techniques work best at keeping users engaged and informed

• Monitor reliability and performance through dashboards and tools to ensure availabil