Senior SWE (Search) - Platform
$147k - $224k • New York City, New York, United States
Posted 4d ago
Job Location
New York City, New York, United States
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
AI Engineer
About the job
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build the billing platform for a novel search engine tailored for agentic AI consumption. This role will own the systems that accurately translate product usage into revenue, supporting flexible billing models such as usage-based pricing, subscriptions, prepaid balances with auto top-up, and enterprise contracts. Ensuring correctness is paramount, as every event must be precisely measured and every invoice must be accurate to the cent.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate the billing platform end-to-end, from usage events to invoices.
- Build metering and usage-aggregation pipelines to convert high-volume events into billable amounts.
- Design and operate prepaid credit/wallet systems with auto top-up and balance management.
- Support enterprise/contract billing with custom pricing, negotiated terms, and scheduled invoicing.
- Build reconciliation, idempotency, and invoice-accuracy safeguards to ensure revenue data is always correct.
- Lead the migration to the next generation of our billing system with no revenue loss or downtime.
- Define observability and quality metrics for billing correctness, freshness, and throughput.
- Ensure billing systems meet audit and compliance requirements (SOX, financial audit).
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building production backend systems.
- 3+ years of active experience building and operating billing or metering systems in production.
- Hands-on experience with usage-based/metered billing, including rating, aggregation, and proration logic.
- Hands-on experience with subscription/recurring billing alongside usage-based models.