Automation Engineer

About the role

Part-time role (20–25 hrs/week) for a US-remote automation engineer. Compensation is benchmarked to the top-quartile US remote part-time market and ranges from $78,000 to $112,000 annually. US work authorization required; must be able to overlap 4 hours/day with US Eastern Time.

Tech stack

• Python 3.12
• UiPath / Power Automate
• PostgreSQL
• REST APIs
• GitHub Actions
• Airflow / Temporal

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automations for invoice intake, OCR, normalization, and approval routing
• Build provisioning and order-management workflows that span vendor portals and internal systems
• Develop reusable connectors for carrier portals, ERPs (NetSuite, SAP), and ticketing systems (ServiceNow, Jira)
• Instrument every workflow with structured logging, retries, dead-letter handling, and SLOs
• Partner with operations leads to translate manual playbooks into auditable software
• Maintain automation libraries, code review standards, and runbooks

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience building production automations or RPA workflows
• Strong Python skills; comfortable with REST APIs, async I/O, and SQL
• Hands-on experience with at least one RPA platform (UiPath, Power Automate, Automation Anywhere) or workflow orchestrator (Airflow, Temporal, Prefect, n8n)
• Comfortable with Git-based development, code review, and CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent written communication for runbooks and design docs

Nice to have

• Experience working with telecom or IT vendor billing data
• Exposure to document AI / IDP (Azure Document Intelligence, AWS Textract, Google Document AI)
• Background in finance, AP automation, or procurement systems
• Familiarity with low-code platforms (Power Automate Cloud, Make, Zapier) for rapid prototyping

Benefits

• Annualized compensation benchmarked to top-quartile US remote part-time market rates
• Healthcare stipend in lieu of group coverage; 401(k) participation with company match
• Accrued PTO and all US federal holidays
• Annual learning & certification budget ($1,500)
• Home-office equipment stipend ($1,200) plus annual refresh budget
• Quarterly virtual team offsites; optional all-expenses NYC HQ visits