Staff Software Engineer, Billing and Monetization

Hercules is seeking a Staff Billing and Monetization Engineer to build and own its billing, payments, and monetization infrastructure. The role covers subscriptions, usage-based billing, payment-provider integrations, commerce capabilities, and highly reliable transaction infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities:

• You will own everything billing and monetization at Hercules
• Billing and subscriptions: Plans, subscriptions, entitlements, prorations, credits, and one-time charges
• Usage-based billing: AI credits, Cloud credits, usage metering, and overage charges
• Payments and providers: Integrations with popular payment providers like Stripe, Adyen, Paypal and other popular payment providers. Our goal is to support as many payment methods and currencies as we can
• Hercules Commerce: The billing and payment capabilities our customers can use inside their apps to transact with their customers. Similar to Stripe Connect
• Latency, reliability, and scale: Fast, resilient infrastructure with robust webhook processing, retries, and reconciliation as usage and transaction volumes grow

Requirements:

• extensive experience with providers like Stripe, Adyen, etc., and subscriptions, usage-based billing, regulation, and more
• system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
• write clean, maintainable code. Work effectively in monorepos
• track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers
• TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres, Redis, and Temporal
• able to truly 10x your workflow by being on frontier of AI coding
• We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers
• We strive for excellence. Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste. We get the details right. Our outputs are exceptionally simple and self-serve. We're proud of our work
• We are hungry. We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want. We are willing to operate at any level to get things done