Software Engineer - Benefits

Central

118d

About The Position

Central is a company that eliminates back-office work for startups by using AI agents and human experts to handle payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. As a founding member, you will help Central scale to serve thousands of companies and founders, ensuring they can focus on building their businesses rather than managing HR tasks. The company values a high-performance culture with three core values: Think clearly, Show high agency, and Craft magic.

Requirements

• Experienced systems architect: Designed and delivered large-scale, stateful architectures.
• Distributed-transaction specialist: Implemented robust patterns for coordinating multi-step workflows across disparate services and third-party APIs.
• Deep transactional-pipeline expertise: Built reconciled workflows with audit trails and automated recovery, especially for financial or compliance-related operations.
• Reliability-first mindset: Baked in observability, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation from day one.
• Scalability & performance focus: Understood caching, queueing, rate-limiting, and tuned systems for rapid growth.
• Strategic thinker & communicator: Broke down complex trade-offs into clear plans and kept cross-functional stakeholders aligned.
• Bias toward action & high standards: Shipped prototypes quickly and insisted on production-ready quality.

Responsibilities

• Architect mission-critical workflows: Design, build, and maintain stateful, end-to-end systems that ensure data integrity and meet compliance and reliability requirements.
• Iterate rapidly: Ship incremental, production-ready features in days, prototype, gather real user feedback, and refine relentlessly.
• Own your domain: Act as the technical product lead for core platform areas, setting standards for code quality, observability, testing, and operational excellence.
• Delight and empower customers: Partner with Product and Support to translate user pain points into clean, intuitive solutions that scale from a single startup to enterprise.
• Push the limits with AI: Leverage AI to automate previously impossible tasks and create new user experiences.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k (US employees only)
• Unlimited PTO and sick leave
• Remote work
• 2-4 off-sites per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees