Automation Engineer hourly

MBG Expense Management, Inc HQ: New York, New York, United States Remote job May 19

Location: Remote / United States

Type: Part-time

Hours: 20–25 hrs/week

Compensation: $78,000 – $112,000 / year

About the role

Design and own the workflow automation that powers MBG’s invoice intake, validation, and provisioning pipelines. You will build durable, observable automations that turn repeatable telecom and IT operations work into reliable software.

Ready to Apply?

Take the next step in your career with MBG Expense Management. Visit our website to learn more about the company, explore current vacancies, and discover how you can become part of our growing team. Candidates are also welcome to apply directly by email by sending their CV and a short introduction. We look forward to hearing from motivated professionals ready to grow with us. Email for application: [email protected]

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
  • US work authorization required; able to overlap 4 hours/day with US Eastern Time

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

Tech stack:

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

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
Requirements
Availability:
Hourly contract
Experience levels:
Intermediate (3 - 5 yrs), Expert (5+ yrs)
Languages:
English

$60/hr