# Staff Engineer, Backend - Revenue

**Company:** [Zapier](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zapier)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $211k – $316k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** APIs, Billing Systems, Subscription Management, Payment Processing, Postgres, Caching, Database Optimization, Revenue Recognition, Entitlements, Pricing Models
**Posted:** 2026-04-29

> Staff backend engineer owns technical vision and architecture for revenue infrastructure handling billing, payments, subscriptions, and entitlements at scale. Requires deep domain expertise in monetization systems, API/platform design, performance optimization, and cross-team leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Serve as technical leader in Revenue Zone, partnering with Engineering, Product, and Design to shape strategy and roadmap.
- Shape long-term platform vision, balancing delivery, durability, extensibility, and operational excellence.
- Lead high-impact initiatives like decoupling billing from account systems, consolidating pricing infrastructure, enabling fast pricing experimentation.
- Own revenue-critical systems (Billing, Pricing, Payments, Checkout, Entitlements) ensuring resilience, observability, and correctness.
- Guide API design, data modeling, caching strategies, optimizing for scalability and developer experience.
- Partner with Pricing & Packaging, Product, Design, Support, and Operations for ARR growth and customer experiences.
- Drive performance optimizations reducing latency, improving reliability and conversion.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, champion documentation and developer experience.

## Requirements
- Proven impact in complex production systems at scale, 8+ years experience preferred but hire for impact.
- Domain knowledge in billing, subscriptions, payments, entitlements, revenue recognition, enterprise support.
- Expertise in API design, platform building, performance optimization (profiling, caching, DB optimization).
- Outcome-driven, customer-focused, comfortable with ambiguity and pivots.
- Cross-team leadership, end-to-end ownership, stakeholder alignment.
- AI fluency in coding workflows, judgment on automation limits in high-correctness domains.
- Comfort navigating large mature codebases and monoliths.

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