Systems Builder

About the role

nobrainer designs, builds, and maintains operational systems for founders and small teams. I'm looking for a contract systems builder to take over buildout and maintenance across our client systems, starting now, ramping up through the Founder & Chief System Architect’s maternity leave in March 2027, and continuing after her return.

This is a systems role. You'll build from designed blueprints, keep live systems healthy, and fix what breaks. In the maternity leave period, you may be responsible for client communications.

The work today is built mostly in Airtable, Zapier, Zite, and Fillout with automations, integrations, forms, and document generation layered on top. Most of it supports a handful of long-term retained clients who rely on these systems every day.

Before the leave, you'll work alongside the Founder & Chief System Architect on active client projects, learning how our systems are designed, built, and documented. During the leave, you're the person running them, with clear rules for what you decide, what waits, and when to escalate.

What you'll do

The work splits into two parts. Buildout is new work. Maintenance is keeping existing systems reliable.

Buildout

• Build new tables, fields, automations, interfaces, and integrations from a written blueprint
• Translate a defined "when X happens, Y should happen" into working logic, then test it against real records
• Write the documentation for what you built: what it does, what it touches, and how to change it safely
• Flag anything in a blueprint that won't hold up once you're in the build

Maintenance

• Investigate and fix bugs, find the root cause, and confirm the fix holds
• Make small adjustments that don't change how a system is shaped
• Watch for automations that fail quietly and catch them before a client does
• Keep the process architecture documentation current as systems change
• Log changes

Who you are

• Self-sufficient problem-solver
• Comfortable reading someone else's build and reasoning about dependencies before touching anything
• Calm with partial context. You'd rather pause and ask than push a fix through.
• Comfortable being the day-to-day contact for clients, including telling them something will wait

Required experience

• 2+ years building in Airtable at the relational level: linked records, rollups, lookups, formulas, automations, and interfaces
• 2+ years hands-on experience with Zapier, including multi-step logic, looping, error handling, and webhooks
• 1+ years experience building apps or portals in Zite
• 1+ years experience building forms in Fillout
• Fluent in English
• Available for overlapping working hours with US Eastern Time

Nice to have

• Airtable scripting (JavaScript)
• Experience using Anthropic’s Claude Console
• Experience with Fillout, Documint, Postmark, Stripe, or QuickBooks
• Airtable, Zite, or Zapier certification
• Prior work supporting client systems for an agency or consultancy

Logistics

• Type: Contract, remote
• Hours: 1-5 hours per week during ramp, TBD during leave
• Rate: $20 to $25 per hour
• Start: November 2026
• Length: Through June 2027, with the option to continue after
• To apply: https://nobrainerbusiness.fillout.com/builder-26-27

Pay: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour

Expected hours: 1.0 – 5.0 per week

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Work Location: Remote