Software Engineer, Financial Engineering
Build and operate backend and financial infrastructure supporting pricing, payments, billing, subscriptions, entitlements, and invoicing. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems, transactional workflows, and highly reliable, auditable platforms.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and operate production backend, platform, and distributed systems for pricing, packaging, checkout, payments, subscriptions, usage-based billing, credits, entitlements, invoicing, and order-to-cash workflows.
- Design APIs, data models, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architectures.
- Build systems requiring strong correctness, reliability, observability, security, data integrity, reconciliation, and auditability.
- Own ambiguous, business-critical problems from initial definition through launch and long-term operation.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, Finance, Accounting, Risk, Operations, and Go-to-Market teams.
- Balance near-term delivery with long-term system quality and work independently as requirements evolve.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
- Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture.
- Experience building systems where correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity are especially important.
- Product-oriented mindset with attention to simple, trustworthy experiences.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical partners.
Nice to Have
- Experience with payments, subscriptions, billing, pricing, credits, entitlements, invoicing, revenue systems, or monetization infrastructure.
- Experience with high-scale financial or transactional systems, reconciliation workflows, compliance requirements, or audit controls.
- Experience building shared platforms, APIs, frameworks, or developer tools used by multiple product teams.
Skills
Backend Systems, Distributed Systems, API Design, Data Modeling, Storage Systems, Transactional Workflows, Event-Driven Architecture, Observability, Security, Payments, Subscriptions, Billing, Reconciliation, Audit Controls, Platform Apis
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