A Day in the Life:
The Sr. Manager, Billing Engineering leads the team responsible for building, modernizing, and operating the systems that support Hertz’s billing and payment processes. This includes modernizing the current billing platform while maintaining legacy systems and ensuring payment data flows accurately through reconciliation, settlement, accounts receivable, and the General Ledger.
This leader is accountable for team delivery, production stability, engineering quality, on-call operations, hiring, performance, and budget. They will partner closely with Architecture, Product, Information Security, Risk, Finance, and Operations to improve systems that directly support Hertz’s revenue and financial operations.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and develop a team of 5 Engineers, plus Quality Assurance roles supporting payment and billing.
- Set team goals and objective and key results, manage performance, coach, and conduct talent reviews and succession planning.
- Own engineering delivery for modernization of billing platforms and integration with Payments and accounting, including throughput, quality, and predictability of releases.
- Partner with the Product, Solutions Architect, and Information Security teams to plan and execute the Billing engineering roadmap.
- Own production stability, on-call rotation, incident response, and post-incident review for modernized Billing systems and Payment integrations.
- Drive measurable improvement in transaction success rate, latency, error budgets, and incident frequency.
- Own engineering accountability for PCI DSS compliance posture across Billing systems along with other high priority & high visibility projects in the payment and billing space.
- Establish and uphold engineering practices including code review, secure coding, test automation, deployment safety, and observability standards.
- Partner with Reliability Engineering and Platform teams on resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery for payments.
- Coordinate cross-functional readiness during peak periods including holidays, fleet repositioning windows, and major sales events.
- Publish a monthly engineering scorecard covering reliability, throughput, quality, security, and cost.
- Ensure compliance with all Corporate Policies and Procedures, PCI DSS, and SOX requirements.
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience,
- 5 years of Direct experience managing a team, building and operating production billing and payment systems.
- Hands-on knowledge of modern backend stacks (Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or similar) and event-driven / distributed architectures.
- Strong understanding of PCI DSS scope, tokenization, vaulting, and secure key management.
- Demonstrated track record managing on-call posture, incident response, and reliability metrics for high-volume systems.
- Strong executive communication; comfortable presenting to Directors.
- Effective project management, process planning, and implementation skills.
- Industry experience in transportation, hospitality, retail, or marketplace businesses is a plus.
- Familiarity with cloud-native deployment (AWS / Azure / GCP), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
- Familiarity with Oracle Fusion AR, Cash Management, or enterprise reconciliation flows.
- Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across multiple functions and locations.
Preferred:
Flexible and adaptable; ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations.
- Results driven, ability to make decisions and help solve problems.
- Ability to lead a diverse, high-performing, results-oriented, and highly-engaged team.
- Ability to drive process and organizational change.
- Ability to motivate teams and keep a positive attitude in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision with a goal-oriented mindset.
- Ability to see the big picture and leverage critical thinking and decision-making skills.
- Excellent organization, time management, delegation, and prioritization skills.
- Courageous leadership and accountability.
The starting salary for this role is $150,000 commensurate with experience.
What You’ll Get:
- Up to 40% off the base rate of any standard Hertz Rental
- Paid Time Off
- Medical, Dental & Vision plan options
- Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching
- Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program for employees & family
- Educational Reimbursement & Discounts
- Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness
- Perks & Discounts –Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more
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About UsThe Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 5 years of direct experience managing a team and building and operating production billing and payment systems
- Hands-on knowledge of modern backend stacks such as Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or similar
- Experience with event-driven and distributed architectures
- Strong understanding of PCI DSS scope, tokenization, vaulting, and secure key management
- Experience managing on-call operations, incident response, and reliability metrics for high-volume systems
- Strong executive communication skills and comfort presenting to Directors
- Project management, process planning, and implementation skills
- Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across multiple functions and locations
- Industry experience in transportation, hospitality, retail, or marketplace businesses
- Familiarity with cloud-native deployment using AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with Oracle Fusion AR, Cash Management, or enterprise reconciliation flows
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations
- Results-driven approach with strong decision-making and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to lead a diverse, high-performing, results-oriented team
- Ability to drive process and organizational change
- Ability to motivate teams in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work under minimal supervision with a goal-oriented mindset
- Critical thinking and big-picture decision-making skills
- Strong organization, time management, delegation, and prioritization skills
- Courageous leadership and accountability
Hertz Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision plan options, with comprehensive offerings highlighted for eligible full-time roles. Employer-paid basic life insurance further strengthens the core health and protection package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) program features a company match up to a stated 4% of eligible pay when employees contribute at specified levels. This match is consistently cited as a notable component of the benefits package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Eligible roles list paid vacation, sick time, floating or observed holidays, and parental leave, with adoption assistance also mentioned. The breadth of time-off options appears stronger in full-time positions.
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What We Do
Hertz. We're here to get you there. The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world. Product and service initiatives such as Hertz Gold Plus Rewards®, Carfirmations, Mobile Wi-Fi and unique vehicles offered through the Adrenaline, Dream, Green and Prestige Collections set Hertz apart from the competition. Additionally, The Hertz Corporation owns the vehicle leasing and fleet management leader Donlen Corporation, operates the Firefly vehicle rental brand and Hertz 24/7 car sharing business in international markets and sells vehicles through Hertz Car Sales.
