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Central · 4 months ago

Software Engineer - Benefits

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$180K/yr - $250K/yr

Central is a company that aims to eliminate back-office work for startups by utilizing AI agents and human experts for various services. They are seeking a Software Engineer to architect and maintain critical workflows, ensuring data integrity while delivering user-centered solutions that scale from startups to enterprises.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)B2BBookkeeping and PayrollFinTechSoftware

No H1B

Responsibilities

Architect mission-critical workflows: Design, build, and maintain stateful, end-to-end systems that ensure data integrity (idempotency, reconciliation, audit trails) and meet stringent 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: AI is part of the DNA at Central. We believe we can leverage it in a variety of ways to automate things that were previously impossible and create completely new user experiences

Qualification

Systems architectureDistributed transactionsTransactional pipelinesReliability engineeringScalabilityPerformance tuningBias toward actionStrategic thinkingCommunication

Required

Experienced systems architect: You've designed and delivered large-scale, stateful architectures—modeling complex domains, defining clear data schemas, and ensuring end-to-end reliability

Distributed-transaction specialist: You've implemented robust patterns for coordinating multi-step workflows across disparate services and third-party APIs—handling two-phase commits, sagas, idempotency, and compensating actions to keep data consistent

Deep transactional-pipeline expertise: Comfort building reconciled workflows with audit trails and automated recovery, especially when orchestrating financial or compliance-related operations

Reliability-first mindset: You bake in observability (metrics, logs, alerts), fault tolerance, and graceful degradation from day one

Scalability & performance focus: You understand caching, queueing, rate-limiting, and have tuned systems to handle rapid growth without sacrificing latency or correctness

Strategic thinker & communicator: You break down complex trade-offs into clear plans, document your designs, and keep cross-functional stakeholders aligned

Bias toward action & high standards: You ship prototypes quickly, iterate based on real feedback, and insist on production-ready quality in every release