Software Engineer, Billing
Builds and maintains billing systems including usage metering, Stripe integrations, ledger for revenue reconciliation, and APIs for internal teams. Requires deep experience with production usage-based billing, Stripe, and financial ledgers for accuracy and scalability.
About the job
What you’ll do
- Implement usage and billing systems changes end-to-end, from updates in the UI and raw usage events at the edge to invoiced amounts in Stripe, including the metering pipeline, aggregation logic, entitlement enforcement, and ledger.
- Evolve our ledger system that serves as the source of truth for customer balances, credits, overages, and adjustments — with the correctness guarantees that financial systems require.
- Integrate deeply with Stripe including subscriptions, usage records, invoices, webhooks, and edge cases like mid-cycle plan changes, prorations, and failed payment recovery.
- Build billing APIs and internal tooling that product, finance, and customer success teams depend on to query customer state, issue credits, and investigate billing anomalies.
- Improve observability across the billing pipeline — metering lag, reconciliation discrepancies, invoice accuracy — so the team can quickly detect and debug billing regressions.
- Partner with product, infrastructure, and finance teams to ship new pricing models with confidence and minimal operational risk.
You will own usage & limits across the product family, payments (stripe + daily jobs), grants & promotions, ledger, and internal data insights. You will be a technical authority on billing correctness and scale.
You may be a fit if
- You’ve shipped a usage-based billing system in production and have opinions on metering architecture, idempotency, and exactly-once semantics.
- You’ve integrated deeply with Stripe, understand its data model, and have dealt with erroring webhooks.
- You’ve built or maintained a financial ledger and understand why it’s required.
- You care about correctness and making sure customer’s don’t have to manually review their invoices.
- You can hold the tension between "move fast" and "do not lose revenue or trust."
- You feel comfortable shipping features end-to-end - scaling up infrastructure to tweaking a UI component.
Skills
Stripe, Ledger Systems, Usage Metering, Billing Apis, Idempotency, Exactly-Once Semantics, Webhooks, Subscriptions, Invoices, Observability
Similar jobs
Backend Engineering jobsDesign and lead secure, scalable wallet infrastructure spanning custody, key management, signing, authorization, and recovery. The role requires deep expertise in wallet or cryptographic security infrastructure, distributed systems architecture, and modern blockchain account models.
Build and operate a globally distributed CI/CD execution platform, including branch orchestration, ephemeral build environments, scheduling, caching, and pipeline observability. Requires Go and TypeScript expertise plus at least 3 years building cloud infrastructure or distributed systems.
Own and scale Go backend systems orchestrating high-volume, multimodal AI generation workloads, with responsibility for concurrency, reliability, latency, and observability. Requires extensive Go, distributed systems, AWS, asynchronous processing, and production SaaS experience.
Senior backend engineer designing scalable services and APIs that connect Phantom Cash to blockchain networks. The role requires Node.js/NestJS, REST API, event-driven, and distributed-systems expertise, with blockchain or fintech experience preferred.
Build and operate highly performant Core API services for real-time fraud detection, owning reliability, observability, scaling, and production operations. The role requires 5+ years of backend experience with Go or Node.js and strong SRE practices.