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Central

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HR Tech • SaaS • Fintech

Central is a platform that automates payroll, benefits, and compliance processes specifically designed for startups. By handling all back-office operations, Central allows founders to focus on growing their businesses without the hassle of HR tasks. Offering services like employee onboarding, government filings, and customized insurance plans, Central simplifies compliance and helps startups efficiently manage their workforce in over 200 countries.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

📋 Description

• Central kills back-office work for startups: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes using AI agents and human experts • 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—set 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: leverage AI to automate tasks and create new user experiences

🎯 Requirements

• Experienced systems architect: designed and delivered large-scale, stateful architectures—modeling complex domains, defining clear data schemas, ensuring end-to-end reliability • Distributed-transaction specialist: implemented robust patterns for coordinating multi-step workflows across disparate services and third-party APIs—two-phase commits, sagas, idempotency, compensating actions • Deep transactional-pipeline expertise: built reconciled workflows with audit trails and automated recovery for financial or compliance-related operations • Reliability-first mindset: bake in observability (metrics, logs, alerts), fault tolerance, and graceful degradation • Scalability & performance focus: understand caching, queueing, rate-limiting, and tuning systems for rapid growth • Strategic thinker & communicator: break down complex trade-offs, document designs, and align cross-functional stakeholders • Bias toward action & high standards: ship prototypes quickly, iterate based on feedback, and deliver production-ready quality • Comfortable leveraging AI to automate processes and create new user experiences

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.