Billing Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Billing Engineer (Backend/Payments)
• Focus: Pricing plans, billing integrations, metering/pricing/rating, and billing pipeline reliability

Description

Build and own core billing software components, including third-party billing integrations and usage-based subscription logic. Develop metering, pricing, rating, and accurate customer usage tracking and reporting. Drive the full product lifecycle from implementation through product decisions, collaborating with UX/UI and product.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and document billing software components
• Integrate with third-party billing platforms (e.g., Stripe, Metronome)
• Implement metering, pricing, and rating logic for usage-based and subscription billing
• Ensure accurate tracking and reporting of customer usage data
• Monitor and maintain billing systems for high availability and data integrity
• Build automation for recurring billing tasks, reconciliation, and reporting
• Support custom billing requirements with product, sales, and finance
• Provide technical leadership for billing discussions, code quality, architecture reviews, and design documentation
• Establish observability, alerting, and error handling across the billing pipeline
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for billing issues

Requirements

• Backend engineering experience focused on billing, payments, or financial systems
• Strong knowledge of SaaS billing models: subscriptions, usage-based pricing, proration, discounts, entitlements
• Experience integrating with third-party billing platforms (e.g., Stripe, Metronome, Orb, Zuora) or building custom billing systems
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures
• Proficiency with SQL and data modeling for financial/usage data
• Strong understanding of APIs and experience building or integrating internal billing APIs
• Proficiency in Go (or ability to write production-quality code in another language and eager to work with Go)
• Comfort working in a dynamic startup environment with strong communication skills

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation (base salary, equity)
• Comprehensive group benefits (health, vision, dental) with no waiting period
• Remote-first work model and company co-working support
• Employer-funded retirement contributions
• Support for professional development and mentorship
• Paid time off and work-life integration
• Home office setup budget and internet reimbursement
• Paid parental leave program