Staff Software Engineer, Financial Infrastructure

Replit

. Set technical direction for Replit’s financial infrastructure, focusing on enterprise billing, spend controls, and financial correctness.

Posted 11/9/2026full-timeFoster City • California • United StatesLead💰 $290,000 - $375,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating financial infrastructure, focusing on enterprise billing, spend controls, and financial correctness. Proven ability to lead cross-team initiatives while ensuring production reliability and effective communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Technical OwnershipAPI DesignData ModelingEvent-Driven ArchitectureFinancial Systems Experience

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Hard Skills

Backend SystemsDistributed SystemsTransaction ConsistencyIdempotencyFailure RecoveryBilling AutomationReconciliationFinancial ReportingUsage MeteringPricing Calculations

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationHands-On LeadershipMentoring

Tools & Technologies

Billing PlatformsPayment SystemsCRM PlatformsCloud Infrastructure

Industry Keywords

Enterprise ContractsInvoicingQuote-to-Cash AutomationSpend VisibilityAgentic Commerce

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set technical direction for Replit’s financial infrastructure, focusing on enterprise billing, spend controls, and financial correctness.
Build shared services for usage-based billing, pricing, credits, subscriptions, and entitlements.
Automate enterprise contract lifecycles from onboarding through amendments and renewals.
Keep commercial terms, provisioned credits, and invoices in sync.
Build budget enforcement, alerts, and overrides without disrupting hosted applications.
Attribute AI usage costs to the correct customer, workspace, user, or agent without double-counting.
Build reconciliation and audit trails for explainable balances and invoices.
Support Finance in identifying discrepancies before customers do.
Simplify the billing stack through safe migrations preserving balances, transaction history, and customer access.
Own production reliability through testing, observability, incident response, and recovery from duplicate events, delayed usage, and partial failures.
Lead cross-team delivery while remaining hands-on with design and code.
Mentor engineers and partner with Product, Finance, Sales, and Support.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A track record of Staff-level technical ownership: setting architecture and delivering complex initiatives across teams.
Deep experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems.
Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, databases, and event-driven architecture.
Sound judgment around transactions, consistency, concurrency, idempotency, and failure recovery.
Experience evolving live systems and migrating data without compromising correctness or availability.
Product judgment that balances customer needs, delivery speed, and long-term system quality.
Clear communication with technical and non-technical partners, including translating business requirements into system behavior.
Hands-on leadership through implementation, design reviews, mentoring, and production ownership.
Preferred: Experience with billing, payments, subscriptions, credits, entitlements, or other financial systems.
Preferred: Experience with enterprise contracts, negotiated pricing, invoicing, or quote-to-cash automation.
Preferred: Experience with high-volume usage metering, pricing calculations, or low-latency spend controls.
Preferred: Experience building reconciliation, financial reporting, or auditable transaction histories with Finance and Accounting.
Preferred: Experience integrating billing, payment, or CRM platforms, with judgment about what to build versus buy.
Bonus: Experience with AI or cloud infrastructure billing, including variable costs and attribution across distributed workloads.
Bonus: Experience building customer-facing spend visibility, budgets, or internal tools that reduce manual billing work.
Bonus: Experience with cloud marketplace billing, payment recovery, or fraud and dispute workflows.
Bonus: Familiarity with agentic commerce or delegated spending.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Must be able to work from the Foster City, CA headquarters 3 days per week, or be willing to relocate.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Salary & Equity
401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
Short Term and Long Term Disability
Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)
Monthly Wellness Stipend
Autonomous Work Environment
In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)
Quarterly Team Gatherings
In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)