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Engineering Lead - Consumer Subscriptions

Leads engineering for consumer subscriptions billing and monetization infrastructure at massive scale, building teams, systems for payments, promotions, and personalized experiences to drive revenue growth for X Premium and SuperGrok. Requires exceptional backend expertise and 5+ years in large-scale consumer apps.

180k – 440kPalo Alto, CAEngineering ManagementOnsite5+ YOE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own the complete billing infrastructure for consumer subscriptions end-to-end, ensuring world-class reliability, security, and scalability.
  • Design and build sophisticated promotional offer infrastructure and internal tools to supercharge the revenue organization.
  • Develop comprehensive communications systems enabling intelligent push, email, and in-app messaging that drive engagement and conversions.
  • Implement market-specific billing methods and compliance solutions to accelerate global expansion.
  • Architect compelling product bundles across the X ecosystem tailored to different markets and consumer needs.
  • Build intelligent models and systems that serve the right messages, offers, and information to users at the optimal time.
  • Recruit, build, and lead a high-performing Consumer Subscriptions engineering team.
  • Hands-on ownership and development of key features for X Premium and SuperGrok products.

Basic Qualifications

  • Exceptional software engineering background with deep experience building large-scale, high-stakes systems (billing, payments, or transactional platforms preferred).
  • Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence or directly manage engineering teams.
  • Strong track record delivering complex backend systems for consumer applications at scale.
  • Passion for revenue-generating products and creating exceptional user experiences.

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • 5+ years of experience working on large-scale consumer applications, ideally in monetization, subscriptions, or fintech.
  • Experience leading engineering efforts in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, global payments infrastructure, personalization engines, or A/B testing frameworks.
  • Proficiency with high-performance languages and tools such as Go, Python, Java, Rust, or similar.

Compensation and Benefits

  • $180,000 - $440,000 USD
  • Base salary is just one part of total rewards package, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

Skills

GoPythonJavaRustDistributed SystemsBilling SystemsPayments InfrastructureA/B TestingPersonalization EnginesBackend Development

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