Central

Design and maintain large-scale, reliable, and compliant end-to-end systems with a focus on distributed transactions and AI-driven automation. | Extensive experience in architecting complex stateful systems, distributed transaction management, reliability engineering, and strategic technical leadership. | About Central What is Central? Central kills back-office work for startups. While HR/payroll platforms give you software to figure it out, Central actually does all the work using AI agents and human experts: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. That's 10+ hours back every month. Thousands of founders trust Central, including high-growth companies like Magic Patterns, Wordware, and Bitesight. Learn more and start for free at centralhq.com. Why Central? Founders start companies to solve problems and build something that matters. Not to become HR managers. Yet here we are in 2025. Despite countless $10B+ 'solutions', founders are still drowning in back-office bullshit. Why? Because every platform was built for HR professionals, not founders. Today, every founder still has to: Register in multiple states. Set up workers' comp. Categorize expenses. Decipher government letters. Pay invoices. Update addresses. Manage equity. Troubleshoot insurance. Answer PTO questions. The list never ends. What a waste of time. But what's worse is the constant anxiety: What am I missing? Did I do this right? Will I get fined? What founders need isn't another tool they have to learn and manage, but something that actually does the work. All of it. As a founding member, you'll have a seat at the table and help Central scale to serve thousands of companies and founders. Our culture Central is a high-performance sports team with an extremely high bar and 3 core values: Think clearly Show high agency Craft magic --------- What you’ll do 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. Who you are 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. What we offer 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 Note for US Roles: We do not provide visa sponsorship. You must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Design and maintain large-scale, stateful, end-to-end systems with strong reliability and compliance, rapidly ship production-ready features, and lead technical product domains. | Extensive experience in designing complex distributed systems, implementing transactional workflows, ensuring reliability and scalability, and strong strategic communication skills. | About Central What is Central? Central kills back-office work for startups. While HR/payroll platforms give you software to figure it out, Central actually does all the work using AI agents and human experts: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. That's 10+ hours back every month. Thousands of founders trust Central, including high-growth companies like Magic Patterns, Wordware, and Bitesight. Learn more and start for free at centralhq.com. Why Central? Founders start companies to solve problems and build something that matters. Not to become HR managers. Yet here we are in 2025. Despite countless $10B+ 'solutions', founders are still drowning in back-office bullshit. Why? Because every platform was built for HR professionals, not founders. Today, every founder still has to: Register in multiple states. Set up workers' comp. Categorize expenses. Decipher government letters. Pay invoices. Update addresses. Manage equity. Troubleshoot insurance. Answer PTO questions. The list never ends. What a waste of time. But what's worse is the constant anxiety: What am I missing? Did I do this right? Will I get fined? What founders need isn't another tool they have to learn and manage, but something that actually does the work. All of it. As a founding member, you'll have a seat at the table and help Central scale to serve thousands of companies and founders. Our culture Central is a high-performance sports team with an extremely high bar and 3 core values: Think clearly Show high agency Craft magic --------- What you’ll do 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. Who you are 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. What we offer 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 Note for US Roles: We do not provide visa sponsorship. You must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Design and maintain mission-critical, stateful systems with strong data integrity and compliance, rapidly iterate features, and lead technical product areas. | Extensive experience architecting large-scale, reliable distributed systems with transactional pipelines, observability, and scalability, plus strong communication and strategic planning skills. | About Central What is Central? Central kills back-office work for startups. While HR/payroll platforms give you software to figure it out, Central actually does all the work using AI agents and human experts: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. That's 10+ hours back every month. Thousands of founders trust Central, including high-growth companies like Magic Patterns, Wordware, and Bitesight. Learn more and start for free at centralhq.com. Why Central? Founders start companies to solve problems and build something that matters. Not to become HR managers. Yet here we are in 2025. Despite countless $10B+ 'solutions', founders are still drowning in back-office bullshit. Why? Because every platform was built for HR professionals, not founders. Today, every founder still has to: Register in multiple states. Set up workers' comp. Categorize expenses. Decipher government letters. Pay invoices. Update addresses. Manage equity. Troubleshoot insurance. Answer PTO questions. The list never ends. What a waste of time. But what's worse is the constant anxiety: What am I missing? Did I do this right? Will I get fined? What founders need isn't another tool they have to learn and manage, but something that actually does the work. All of it. As a founding member, you'll have a seat at the table and help Central scale to serve thousands of companies and founders. Our culture Central is a high-performance sports team with an extremely high bar and 3 core values: Think clearly Show high agency Craft magic --------- What you’ll do 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. Who you are 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. What we offer 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 Note for US Roles: We do not provide visa sponsorship. You must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Design and maintain mission-critical, stateful backend workflows ensuring data integrity and compliance, rapidly ship production-ready features, and lead technical product areas. | Senior-level experience architecting large-scale, reliable distributed systems with expertise in transactional workflows, observability, and strategic communication. | About Central What is Central? Central kills back-office work for startups. While HR/payroll platforms give you software to figure it out, Central actually does all the work using AI agents and human experts: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. That's 10+ hours back every month. Thousands of founders trust Central, including high-growth companies like Magic Patterns, Wordware, and Bitesight. Learn more and start for free at centralhq.com. Why Central? Founders start companies to solve problems and build something that matters. Not to become HR managers. Yet here we are in 2025. Despite countless $10B+ 'solutions', founders are still drowning in back-office bullshit. Why? Because every platform was built for HR professionals, not founders. Today, every founder still has to: Register in multiple states. Set up workers' comp. Categorize expenses. Decipher government letters. Pay invoices. Update addresses. Manage equity. Troubleshoot insurance. Answer PTO questions. The list never ends. What a waste of time. But what's worse is the constant anxiety: What am I missing? Did I do this right? Will I get fined? What founders need isn't another tool they have to learn and manage, but something that actually does the work. All of it. As a founding member, you'll have a seat at the table and help Central scale to serve thousands of companies and founders. Our culture Central is a high-performance sports team with an extremely high bar and 3 core values: Think clearly Show high agency Craft magic --------- What you’ll do 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. Who you are 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. What we offer 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 Note for US Roles: We do not provide visa sponsorship. You must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Scale and lead Central's engineering organization from a small founder-led team to 20+ engineers, establish engineering culture, drive execution, develop leaders, and partner cross-functionally. | Experience scaling engineering teams, building remote teams, hiring top engineering talent, fostering strong engineering culture, and executing large projects in a startup environment. | About Central What is Central? Central kills back-office work for startups. While HR/payroll platforms give you software to figure it out, Central actually does all the work using AI agents and human experts: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. That's 10+ hours back every month. Thousands of founders trust Central, including high-growth companies like Magic Patterns, Wordware, and Bitesight. Learn more and start for free at centralhq.com. Why Central? Founders start companies to solve problems and build something that matters. Not to become HR managers. Yet here we are in 2025. Despite countless $10B+ 'solutions', founders are still drowning in back-office bullshit. Why? Because every platform was built for HR professionals, not founders. Today, every founder still has to: Register in multiple states. Set up workers' comp. Categorize expenses. Decipher government letters. Pay invoices. Update addresses. Manage equity. Troubleshoot insurance. Answer PTO questions. The list never ends. What a waste of time. But what's worse is the constant anxiety: What am I missing? Did I do this right? Will I get fined? What founders need isn't another tool they have to learn and manage, but something that actually does the work. All of it. As a founding member, you'll have a seat at the table and help Central scale to serve thousands of companies and founders. Our culture Central is a high-performance sports team with an extremely high bar and 3 core values: Think clearly Show high agency Craft magic --------- What you’ll do Scale the team: Grow Central’s engineering org from a small, founder-led group to a 20+ person team. Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineers and leaders who raise the bar. Establish engineering culture: Define and model the values, rituals, and practices that make Central’s engineering org world-class. Build a strong, cohesive culture across a fully remote team. Drive execution at scale: Ensure the team consistently delivers ambitious projects quickly and reliably. Create processes that enable speed, clarity, and accountability as headcount grows. Develop leaders: Mentor engineers into tech leads and managers. Build a leadership bench that can own domains and drive execution as the org expands. Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with the founders, product, design, and operations to ensure engineering is aligned with business goals and delivering customer impact. Design the org for growth: Define roles, career paths, and structures that let us scale smoothly to 20+ engineers while maintaining velocity and quality. Who you are Experienced org builder: You’ve scaled engineering teams from small to 20+ (or beyond), putting in place the right people, structure, and culture at each stage. Remote team scaler: You know how to build distributed teams that feel connected, productive, and high-trust. Talent magnet: You’ve successfully hired top engineers and managers, and can “sell” candidates on joining by telling a compelling story of mission, impact, and culture. Culture carrier: You set and reinforce high standards, create strong cultural alignment, and ensure engineering is a place where people do the best work of their careers. Execution-oriented operator: You’re skilled at translating vision into clear priorities, aligning teams, and shipping big projects quickly. Company-first mindset: You thrive in a startup environment — solving problems with limited resources, rolling up your sleeves when needed, and always prioritizing the company’s success over ego. What we offer 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 Note for US Roles: We do not provide visa sponsorship. You must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Design and maintain large-scale, stateful, mission-critical systems with strong compliance and reliability, rapidly iterate features, and lead technical product areas. | Extensive experience architecting complex distributed systems with transactional pipelines, fault tolerance, observability, and strategic communication skills. | About Central What is Central? Central kills back-office work for startups. While HR/payroll platforms give you software to figure it out, Central actually does all the work using AI agents and human experts: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. That's 10+ hours back every month. Thousands of founders trust Central, including high-growth companies like Magic Patterns, Wordware, and Bitesight. Learn more and start for free at centralhq.com. Why Central? Founders start companies to solve problems and build something that matters. Not to become HR managers. Yet here we are in 2025. Despite countless $10B+ 'solutions', founders are still drowning in back-office bullshit. Why? Because every platform was built for HR professionals, not founders. Today, every founder still has to: Register in multiple states. Set up workers' comp. Categorize expenses. Decipher government letters. Pay invoices. Update addresses. Manage equity. Troubleshoot insurance. Answer PTO questions. The list never ends. What a waste of time. But what's worse is the constant anxiety: What am I missing? Did I do this right? Will I get fined? What founders need isn't another tool they have to learn and manage, but something that actually does the work. All of it. As a founding member, you'll have a seat at the table and help Central scale to serve thousands of companies and founders. Our culture Central is a high-performance sports team with an extremely high bar and 3 core values: Think clearly Show high agency Craft magic --------- What you’ll do 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. Who you are 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. What we offer 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 Note for US Roles: We do not provide visa sponsorship. You must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Design, build, and maintain mission-critical, stateful, end-to-end systems with stringent compliance and reliability requirements while iterating rapidly and owning core platform areas. | Extensive experience designing large-scale, stateful architectures, expertise in distributed transactions and transactional pipelines, reliability-first mindset, scalability and performance focus, and strong strategic communication skills. | About Central What is Central? Central kills back-office work for startups. While HR/payroll platforms give you software to figure it out, Central actually does all the work using AI agents and human experts: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. That's 10+ hours back every month. Thousands of founders trust Central, including high-growth companies like Magic Patterns, Wordware, and Bitesight. Learn more and start for free at centralhq.com. Why Central? Founders start companies to solve problems and build something that matters. Not to become HR managers. Yet here we are in 2025. Despite countless $10B+ 'solutions', founders are still drowning in back-office bullshit. Why? Because every platform was built for HR professionals, not founders. Today, every founder still has to: Register in multiple states. Set up workers' comp. Categorize expenses. Decipher government letters. Pay invoices. Update addresses. Manage equity. Troubleshoot insurance. Answer PTO questions. The list never ends. What a waste of time. But what's worse is the constant anxiety: What am I missing? Did I do this right? Will I get fined? What founders need isn't another tool they have to learn and manage, but something that actually does the work. All of it. As a founding member, you'll have a seat at the table and help Central scale to serve thousands of companies and founders. Our culture Central is a high-performance sports team with an extremely high bar and 3 core values: Think clearly Show high agency Craft magic --------- What you’ll do 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. Who you are 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. What we offer 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 Note for US Roles: We do not provide visa sponsorship. You must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Design and maintain mission-critical, stateful systems with end-to-end reliability and compliance, rapidly iterate features, lead technical product domains, and leverage AI to automate workflows. | Senior-level experience in architecting large-scale distributed systems with transactional pipelines, reliability-first mindset, strategic communication, and ability to ship production-ready software quickly. | About Central What is Central? Central kills back-office work for startups. While HR/payroll platforms give you software to figure it out, Central actually does all the work using AI agents and human experts: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. That's 10+ hours back every month. Thousands of founders trust Central, including high-growth companies like Magic Patterns, Wordware, and Bitesight. Learn more and start for free at centralhq.com. Why Central? Founders start companies to solve problems and build something that matters. Not to become HR managers. Yet here we are in 2025. Despite countless $10B+ 'solutions', founders are still drowning in back-office bullshit. Why? Because every platform was built for HR professionals, not founders. Today, every founder still has to: Register in multiple states. Set up workers' comp. Categorize expenses. Decipher government letters. Pay invoices. Update addresses. Manage equity. Troubleshoot insurance. Answer PTO questions. The list never ends. What a waste of time. But what's worse is the constant anxiety: What am I missing? Did I do this right? Will I get fined? What founders need isn't another tool they have to learn and manage, but something that actually does the work. All of it. As a founding member, you'll have a seat at the table and help Central scale to serve thousands of companies and founders. Our culture Central is a high-performance sports team with an extremely high bar and 3 core values: Think clearly Show high agency Craft magic --------- What you’ll do 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. Who you are 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. What we offer 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 Note for US Roles: We do not provide visa sponsorship. You must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Onboard new and migrating customers while transferring their data into Central. Ensure accuracy of data and coordinate with teammates to complete migrations efficiently. | Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in customer-facing roles and be highly proficient in data analysis. They must be organized, detail-oriented, and capable of resolving complex issues. | About Central What is Central? Central is the first payroll & benefits back-office for startups that works like a teammate and proactively handles everything needed to run a compliant business. Unlike traditional payroll/HR software that forces you to do all the work, Central actually handles multi-state registrations, insurance, HR tasks, government mail, and everything else related to hiring & paying people. Learn more at centralhq.com Why Central? We’re on a mission to kill business bullshit so startups can fly. Building a company is still way too hard. Founders still have to register in multiple states to run payroll, set up workers' compensation, pay various payroll-related taxes, deal with intimidating government mail, update addresses across state filings, and troubleshoot with insurance companies. Imagine a world where ambitious founders have more time to solve the world's most difficult problems—from preventing medical mistakes in hospitals to building next-generation night vision to curing brain cancer. That's what founders on Central are doing. Currently, hundreds of companies run on Central, and we're growing rapidly. We've raised a huge seed/A from YC and some of the best investors in the world (not announced yet, happy to share in private). As a founding member, you'll have a seat at the table and help Central scale to serve thousands of companies. Our culture Central is a high-performance sports team with an extremely high bar and 3 core values: Think clearly Show high agency Craft magic --------- Who you are Strong communicator who can guide customers through complex onboarding and migrations 5+ years of experience in customer-facing roles Highly proficient in simple data analysis for cleanup and transfer Exceptionally organized with a knack for keeping multiple projects on track Process-driven and detail-oriented — you know what needs to happen and make sure it happens on time Able to quickly jump in to thorny issues, diagnose them, and pull in the right resources to resolve it What you will do Onboard new and migrating customers, transferring their data into Central Review data for accuracy Coordinate with teammates to complete migrations quickly and smoothly Track progress, flag blockers, and ensure no steps are missed Identify process improvements to make onboarding faster and easier each time What we offer 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 Note for US Roles: We do not provide visa sponsorship. You must be authorized to work in the U.S.