# Software Engineer, Billing

**Company:** [Render](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/render)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Go, SQL, NoSQL, Stripe, Orb, Metronome, Data Pipelines, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architectures
**Posted:** 2025-09-18

> Designs, builds, and maintains usage-based billing systems, integrating third-party platforms like Orb, Metronome, and Stripe. Requires 3+ years experience with Go, databases, and cross-functional collaboration for accurate, scalable billing at Render.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and improve Render’s usage-based billing systems.
- Integrate with and maintain third-party billing systems (e.g., **Orb**, **Metronome**, or similar).
- Collaborate closely with **Finance**, **Product**, and **Support Engineering** teams to ensure accurate, reliable billing and reporting.
- Work with large-scale databases and data pipelines to capture, transform, and reconcile usage data.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve billing reliability and performance.
- Contribute to architectural decisions about how billing integrates with the broader Render platform.
- Help shape internal processes, documentation, and best practices for billing operations.

## Requirements
- **3+ years** of professional experience building or operating usage-based billing systems.
- Hands-on experience integrating and working with third-party billing systems such as **Orb**, **Metronome**, **Stripe**, or similar platforms.
- Strong expertise in **Go** and production-grade databases (**SQL** or **NoSQL**).
- Ability to work effectively across functions with **Finance**, **Customer Experience**, and **Product** teams.
- Detail-oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability in mission-critical systems.
- Pragmatism and problem-solving skills to balance accuracy, scalability, and developer experience.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience working in a high-growth startup or scaling environment.
- Familiarity with financial reconciliation and reporting processes.
- Background in **distributed systems** or **event-driven architectures**.
- Willingness to mentor others and help scale Render’s engineering culture.

## Benefits
- Equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
- 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs available.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
- Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
- Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
- Continuous learning benefits & related support.

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