Numeral (YC W23)

Automation Engineer

Numeral (YC W23)

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $60,000 - $200,000 per year

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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
automation systemsbrowser automationSeleniumPlaywrightworkflow systemsn8nZapierSQLTypescriptPostgreSQL
Soft Skills
debuggingsystems thinkingclear communicationadaptability