Senior Software Engineer, Billing

TL;DR - Why This Role Matters

We’re hiring a Senior Engineer to own and evolve Scribe’s billing platform. This system powers revenue across 5M+ users and 600K+ organizations.

You’ll design and operate the infrastructure behind subscriptions, enterprise invoicing, pricing changes, and the subscription lifecycle. Parts of the system need hardening. Parts need redesign. You’ll do both.

This is backend-heavy work with real architectural headroom and clear long-term expansion into entitlements and monetization systems.

About the Role

Billing at Scribe is core infrastructure. It supports both our self-serve product and a growing enterprise business. It must remain financially correct, resilient under failure, and adaptable as revenue complexity increases.

The challenge is not just processing payments. It’s designing systems that stay correct as pricing evolves, enterprise contracts grow more complex, and billing integrates more deeply with product access and reporting systems.

You’ll join a small, focused team with meaningful ownership. You’ll define system behavior, resolve ambiguity, evaluate edge cases, and make sound architectural tradeoffs.

This role involves both stabilizing and redesigning parts of the platform. Some areas need hardening and operational rigor. Others need cleaner abstractions and long-term architectural direction.

Over time, this role will expand beyond billing into adjacent systems such as entitlements and broader monetization infrastructure.

Stack: Django, DRF, Celery, PostgreSQL, Stripe, Next.js. Primarily backend, but full-stack when needed.

What You’ll Do

• Own and evolve Scribe’s billing and subscription systems
• Shape the long-term architecture of our revenue platform as complexity scales
• Design resilient, event-driven systems that remain correct under retries, partial outages, and race conditions
• Build and maintain reconciliation processes that Finance and leadership rely on
• Improve subscription lifecycle reliability, including renewals, plan changes, invoicing, and payment recovery
• Scale workflows that support both self-serve users and enterprise customers
• Enable safe pricing and packaging changes without compromising financial integrity
• Improve system boundaries between billing, entitlements, and reporting to reduce coupling and increase maintainability
• Ship customer-facing billing flows and internal tooling when necessary

You Could Be a Great Fit If

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Built or maintained billing, payments, or other high-integrity financial systems in production
• Think in terms of guarantees: consistency, idempotency, reconciliation, durability
• Comfortable scoping ambiguous problems and driving them end to end
• Care deeply about correctness when money is involved
• Strong backend engineer, ideally in Python and Django
• Make sound architectural tradeoffs and comfortable owning long-term system evolution
• Operate well with autonomy and accountability
• Experience with Stripe or similar billing platforms is helpful but not required

Bonus

• Experience supporting pricing or packaging changes in production systems
• Familiarity with enterprise invoicing workflows and sales-assisted purchasing
• Experience with SaaS tax compliance tools such as Anrok or Avalara
• Experience partnering closely with Finance or Revenue Operations on reconciliation and reporting
• Experience working on entitlements or access control systems

Compensation

Salary range: $170,000 – $200,000 + equity (San Francisco). Specific offer depends on experience and pay parity.