
Automation Engineer
Numeral (YC W23)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $60,000 - $200,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build and maintain automations that replace manual financial operations, including sales tax filings, registrations, reconciliations, and exception handling.
- Design workflows that combine browser automation (e.g. Selenium/Playwright-style tooling), internal APIs, and AI-assisted decision logic.
- Translate ambiguous operational processes into deterministic, repeatable automation steps.
- Investigate failures in automated workflows, diagnose root causes, and implement fixes to improve reliability.
- Collaborate with operations teams to understand how work is done today, then design systems that remove the boring parts.
- Use AI tools pragmatically to accelerate development, debugging, and iteration.
- Improve observability and auditing so automated processes are explainable, traceable, and trustworthy.
Requirements
- Experience building or maintaining automation systems, internal tools, or workflow-driven software.
- Strong debugging and systems thinking skills: You enjoy answering “why did this fail?” and “how do we prevent it?”
- Comfortable working with:
- browser automation tools (Selenium, Playwright, or similar), or
- workflow / orchestration systems (n8n, Zapier-style tools, internal engines), or
- glue code that connects multiple systems together
- Ability to reason about data correctness, state, retries, and failure modes.
- Comfortable learning new internal tools and adapting to evolving systems.
- Clear communicator who can explain what a system is doing and why.
- Bonus Points For
- Experience in finance, payments, accounting, tax, or compliance-heavy domains.
- Experience automating interactions with third-party web portals.
- Familiarity with SQL or basic data investigation for debugging workflows.
- Experience using AI tools (LLMs, copilots, agents) to speed up development or automate decision-making.
- Startup experience or comfort working in fast-changing environments.
- Familiarity with Typescript, Temporal, and PostgreSQL.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
automation systemsbrowser automationSeleniumPlaywrightworkflow systemsn8nZapierSQLTypescriptPostgreSQL
Soft Skills
debuggingsystems thinkingclear communicationadaptability