Sr. Engineer, Full Stack (Growth)

Job Posted: 08/14/2024

Location: North America

Hi there!

As Zapier continues to scale our mission to democratize automation, we’re hiring for a Senior Fullstack Engineer in our Growth zone. Zapier’s on a mission to make everyone more productive at work. Zapier has helped millions of people build businesses through the power of automation. We need an engineer who will help us in our mission to make building automation a habit for every Zapier customer. You’ll be working alongside the team’s engineers to help build out Zapier’s logged-in homepage that will power the customer’s multi-product journey. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage cutting-edge technologies in a fast-paced environment with a high-impact team.  

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About You

You have 7+ years of experience. You've dedicated at least 4 of those years to crafting and refining web-based software products. Your primary domain is the backend, but you should have experience building web-based front-ends in React. You enjoy shipping iteratively using feature flags to experiment and learn.  

Required Technical Skills/Experience:

1. Strong expertise in using Python and Typescript for building backend services.

2. Experience using Next.js and React.js for building web application front-ends.

3. Using tools like Datadog for monitoring and performance optimization, and to identify and address performance bottlenecks.

4. Experience deploying applications to Amazon Web Services.

5. Using feature flags to deploy code to production and run A/B experiments.

Nice-to-Have Technical Skills/Experience:

1. You have previously worked in a fast-paced part of a business such as Growth, GTM, Marketing, or eCommerce.  

2. Experience with GraphQL to build middleware for web-based applications.

3. Strong interest and/or experience using Large Language Models (LLMs) to build production-grade features.  

You live by the "always ship new code" mantra. You take immense pleasure in releasing code frequently, knowing that …