Senior Software Engineer, Developer Impact (Full Stack)

About the Role

Join Zapier's Developer Impact team as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to empower our engineers with cutting-edge tools and processes, accelerating the future of automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain internal products that enhance developer productivity and workflow, building across the stack from command-line utilities to web dashboards and APIs.
• Integrate AI-powered experiences to augment how engineers build, test, and deploy software.
• Partner with engineering teams across the company to identify friction points, gather feedback, and co-create scalable solutions.
• Define and promote standard, high-velocity development patterns and 'golden paths' for engineering excellence.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years in a senior or tech lead role.
• Strong full-stack building skills with experience in Python and Typescript, capable of developing resilient backend services, APIs, and intuitive frontend interfaces.
• A developer platform mindset, having built tools, frameworks, or infrastructure that other developers rely on daily, with a holistic view of developer workflows (local dev to CI/CD).
• Familiarity and savviness with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., AI pair programmers, code review bots) and eagerness to explore practical AI applications for engineering velocity.
• An experimentation and impact-focused approach, thriving in fast-moving environments that value data-driven iteration and learning.
• Collaborative builder who partners closely with engineers, treating them as customers to deliver tangible improvements.
• Strong systems thinker who understands the ripple effect of decisions across the broader engineering ecosystem.

About the Team & Impact

The Developer Impact team boosts the effectiveness and velocity of Zapier’s engineering organization by improving developer workflows, tooling, and processes, with a strong focus on AI-powered developer experiences. We take a hypothesis-driven, experimental approach, dogfooding lightweight solutions, measuring their impact, and rapidly iterating to eliminate friction across the software development lifecycle. You'll thrive here if you're passionate about high-leverage internal platform work and love experimenting with how AI and automation can transform how developers build software.