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Job Posted: April 13th, 2026
Location: India | Timezone = Overlap with US East Coast hours required 3–4 days/week during ramp-up
Zapier is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our Enterprise Integrations team located in India. This team builds and maintains critical integrations within Zapier, and partners closely with customer-facing teams to stay on the cutting edge of customer needs. This team’s mission includes:
- Building and maintaining some of the most important integrations in the Zapier product
- Collaborating with Customer Success, Support, and Sales teams to understand and invest in the most relevant integrations securing our most valuable deals
- Ensuring continued customer satisfaction by quickly resolving any issues using these integrations
We’re hiring several Backend Engineers (mid and senior-level) to help grow our integration portfolio for our biggest customers. This is a highly technical, engineering-driven team where you'll build integrations, proactively improve integration features and reliability, handle API deprecations and migrations, and address any customer issues that may appear. If you love working with diverse APIs — REST APIs, OAuth flows, webhook design, state management, and API versioning and deprecations — debugging complex systems across service boundaries, and mentoring engineers while maintaining high standards for quality and craftsmanship, this is the team for you.
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ABOUT YOU
- You work through AI agents, not alongside them. Your daily development workflow is built around directing and reviewing agent-written code, not writing it by hand. You have opinions about which models to use for which tasks, you've hit real failure modes and built mitigations, and your workflow is actively evolving. Bonus: you use multi-agent patterns, enable others on your team to build faster with AI, or have scaled AI impact beyond yourself.
- You have deep customer empathy and thrive in the details. Zapier’s integrations are the heart of the product. With a customer-centric approach, you work with your team to improve the customer experience and participate in programs to enhance our product offerings.
- You work close to the customer. You don't wait for product specs or UX research to tell you what to build. You pull customer tickets, talk to CSMs, review feedback, and use that context to drive what you ship. You think in milestone slices: what's the smallest thing I can get into production that moves us forward and teaches us something?
- You own your work and yourself. You take initiative without waiting for permission and you ship fast and share early. But you also own your mistakes, your gaps, and your role in friction, openly. You say "I don't know" and "I was wrong" out loud, early, and without shame. You hold yourself to a high standard and can articulate where you've fallen short, not just where you've succeeded.
- You communicate proactively in an async-first culture. You manage up and across, flagging risks, surfacing decisions, and keeping stakeholders informed without being asked. You use written artifacts, working demos, and rough prototypes as your primary communication tools, not meetings.
- You believe enterprise can move fast. You've seen (or are excited to prove) that shipping to enterprise customers doesn't have to mean slow, waterfall-style cycles. You know how to balance compliance, security, and rollout considerations with tight iteration loops and rapid customer feedback. You see enterprise constraints as interesting design problems, not reasons to slow down.
THINGS YOU’LL DO
- Build, evolve, and maintain enterprise-grade integrations for our highest-priority customers across REST, OAuth, and webhook-based APIs, owning the full lifecycle from design through deprecation and treating agents as first-class contributors in that lifecycle.
- Lead important projects from start to finish using agentic coding workflows: framing problems into agent-friendly tasks, configuring tools and context, and pairing with AI systems to generate, refactor, and migrate code while you remain accountable for correctness, safety, and long-term maintainability.
- Design and operate agent “harnesses” — prompts, tools, test suites, sandboxes, and guardrails — so agents can safely modify integrations at scale (for example, dependency upgrades, refactors, or bulk bug fixes) without breaking customer workflows.
- Work directly with cross-functional stakeholders (Support, Success, Sales, Product, Security, Compliance) to ensure both our integrations and our agents are solving the right problems for enterprise customers, translating their needs into clear technical work for humans and agents.
- Support teammates across experience levels via pair-programming, code and prompt reviews, and mentoring on both backend fundamentals and agentic development best practices.
- Participate in reviews of human- and agent-written changes, raising the quality bar for integrations and continuously documenting patterns, edge cases, and “gotchas” so that future engineers and agents can move faster with confidence.
- Debug complex issues across service and agent boundaries — spanning third-party APIs, internal systems, agent workflows, and customer environments — using logs, traces, evals, and customer context (tickets, CSM feedback, error logs) to prioritize and triage effectively.
- Shape integration and agent architecture across the broader organization by establishing patterns, guidelines, and reusable components that other teams can adopt.
- Contribute to shared engineering infrastructure (SDKs, libraries, internal tools, CI pipelines, observability and eval frameworks) that make it easier and safer for engineers and agents to build and operate integrations at scale.
- Define and track technical quality and reliability metrics (for both services and agents), using data to drive continuous improvements in performance, resilience, and developer experience.
LEVEL DIFFERENTIATION
L3 BACKEND ENGINEER – ENTERPRISE INTEGRATIONS
- I understand how my team’s integration services work end‑to‑end (APIs, data flows, auth, retries, error handling) and can explain them clearly to others.
- I am competent in the main backend technologies my team uses (e.g., language, framework, data stores, queues, observability stack) and can work independently on typical tasks.
- I consistently ship well‑tested, well‑documented, maintainable code that follows team conventions for integrations (logging, metrics, feature flags, etc.).
- I am fluent in AI-assisted, agentic development: I can break work into agent-friendly tasks, compose the right tools/skills, and use agents to generate, refactor, and migrate code — while I remain accountable for correctness, security, and long-term maintainability.
- I can take a well‑defined task or story and deliver it end‑to‑end, including tests, docs, and deployment.
- I give realistic estimates, call out risks or