Senior Software Engineer, Billing

Scribe•San Francisco, CA

3d•$170,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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 won’t be handed tightly scoped tickets. 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, shaping how pricing, access control, and revenue systems work together. Our stack includes Django, DRF, Celery, PostgreSQL, Stripe, and Next.js. This is primarily a backend role, but you’ll move across the stack when needed to unblock revenue-critical work.

Requirements

You have 6+ years of software engineering experience
You have built or maintained billing, payments, or other high-integrity financial systems in production
You think in terms of guarantees: consistency, idempotency, reconciliation, durability
You are comfortable scoping ambiguous problems and driving them end to end
You care deeply about correctness when money is involved
You are a strong backend engineer, ideally in Python and Django
You make sound architectural tradeoffs and are comfortable owning long-term system evolution
You operate well with autonomy and accountability
Experience with Stripe or similar billing platforms is helpful but not required.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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