About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Workflows team. You'll build the platform that powers workflow automation across our product, working closely with Product and Design to create a flexible workflow engine that enables customers to automate complex business processes while integrating AI where it adds meaningful value. This is a highly collaborative, hands-on backend engineering role with significant ownership and technical influence.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services that power workflow execution and orchestration.
- Develop reusable workflow components and APIs used across the platform.
- Build reliable, event-driven systems that coordinate long-running business processes.
- Partner with Product and Design to deliver intuitive workflow experiences.
- Help define engineering best practices around scalability, reliability, and observability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend development skills in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language.
- Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
- Strong understanding of asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment.
Skills
- Go
- Python
- Java
- distributed systems
- APIs
- cloud-native applications
- asynchronous processing
- event-driven architectures
- Workflow orchestration platforms (Temporal, Cadence, Camunda, Argo, Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- Redis
- AI/LLM applications
- agentic systems
- Enterprise automation
- integration platforms
Location
- Midtown Manhattan
- Flatiron District, Manhattan
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000—$250,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- equity
- benefits package
About the Company
- Standard Template Labs is building the next generation of IT Service Management.
- Our AI-native platform combines graph technology, intelligent workflows, and modern software architecture to help enterprises automate complex operational work.
- We're rethinking how work gets done—replacing manual processes with intelligent, scalable automation.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
