The Role
Lead and mentor a team of software engineers focused on Billing and Payments. Own technical roadmap, ensure compliance and manage system reliability while collaborating with Product and Finance teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
Engineering Manager, Billing
About the Role
Responsibilities
QualificationsRequired
Tech Stack
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.
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.
- 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
- 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
- Languages: Java, Javasdript
- Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Data: PostgreSQL, Kafka,
- Payments: Stripe, Adyen, or in-house ledger systems
- Observability: Clickhouse
- 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
Top Skills
Adyen
AWS
Clickhouse
Java
JavaScript
Kafka
Kubernetes
Postgres
Stripe
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
Nue is an easy-to-manage, omni-channel Quote-to-Revenue Platform that meets the needs of companies looking to innovate and manage their revenue lifecycles end-to-end. With Nue, all go-to-market teams accelerate sales with innovative and flexible pricing models, out-of-the-box customer lifecycle management, and seamless billing – all while delivering complete revenue visibility and accurate analytics to finance.
