Engineering Manager, Billing

Reports to Senior Director of Engineering, Billing

Team size: 6 Engineers to start, will hire more in the future

Location:  San Mateo, CA 3+ days a week.

About the Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Billing–Usage Team. In conjunction with Billing Core Team, you will own the systems that handle how customers are charged, invoiced, and managed throughout their lifecycle, especially for Usage and Consumption billing. This is a high-impact role that sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and finance — ensuring our billing platform is accurate, scalable, and reliable.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5–10 software engineers focused on Billing, Usage, Credit consumption, and Payments Infrastructure
• Own the technical roadmap for billing systems including invoicing, metering, payment processing, subscription management, and revenue recognition.
• Partner with Product, Finance, and Go-to-Market teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Drive architectural decisions for billing platform reliability, accuracy, and performance at scale
• Establish and maintain engineering best practices including code reviews, testing strategies, incident response, and on-call processes
• Manage team execution through sprint planning, prioritization, and delivery of quarterly objectives
• Recruit and hire top engineering talent; build a diverse and inclusive team culture
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and audit requirements in billing systems
• Identify and reduce technical debt while balancing feature delivery
• Communicate team progress, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership

Qualifications

Required

• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading backend or platform teams
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with hands-on work in billing, payments, or financial systems
• Strong understanding of billing concepts: subscription models, usage-based pricing, proration, taxation, dunning, and revenue recognition
• Experience with payment processors (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, or similar)
• Track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects on time
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and business stakeholders
• Experience operating production systems with high reliability and accuracy requirements

Preferred

• Experience scaling billing systems through periods of rapid growth
• Experience with event-driven architectures and metering pipelines
• Background in B2B SaaS billing or usage-based pricing models

Tech Stack

• Languages: Java, Javascript
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Data: PostgreSQL, Kafka, 
• Payments: Stripe, Adyen, or in-house ledger systems
• Observability: Clickhouse

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible work arrangements (remote/hybrid)
• Professional development budget
• Generous PTO and parental leave
• Opportunity to shape a critical platform that directly impacts company revenue