Staff Software Engineer, Revenue Platform at Metropolis

Metropolis

Los Angeles, California, United States·1w ago

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Salary Range

$153,000 - $207,000 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

Metropolis is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Revenue Platform team. You will own the technical direction for our billing, payments, and invoicing infrastructure, handling systems that process tens of millions in monthly transactions. This role requires balancing immediate business needs with long-term architectural improvements to support our rapid growth.

Key Responsibilities

→Own the technical architecture and evolution of Metropolis's billing, payments, and invoicing systems
→Design and implement resilient payment processing with support for multiple payment gateways
→Build comprehensive monitoring and reporting for revenue operations
→Partner with finance and operations teams on payment failures and billing disputes
→Drive adoption of revenue system best practices across services
→Own integrations with external systems like payment gateways and ERP

Requirements

✓8+ years of hands-on engineering experience with revenue systems
✓Strong systems thinking for financial correctness with proven ability to design distributed revenue systems
✓Database and financial data expertise, including transaction isolation and audit logging
✓Payment gateway and integration experience with production knowledge of Stripe, PayPal, or similar processors
✓Excellent technical communication with finance, accounting, and data teams
✓Experience with AI-assisted development tools