Software Engineer - Ops Automation

Central

118d

About The Position

Central is a company that aims to eliminate back-office work for startups by utilizing 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 that 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 with clear data schemas and end-to-end reliability.
• 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 without sacrificing latency or correctness.
• 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, iterated based on real feedback, and ensured production-ready quality in every release.

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
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees