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Central · 4 months ago

Software Engineer - HRIS

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$180K/yr - $250K/yr

Central is a company that eliminates back-office work for startups by utilizing AI agents and human experts to manage payroll, benefits, compliance, and more. They are seeking a Software Engineer to architect mission-critical workflows, iterate rapidly on features, and ensure data integrity while pushing the limits of AI to enhance user experiences.

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 engineeringScalabilityPerformanceAI integrationBias toward actionStrategic thinkingCommunication skills

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