Software Engineer II, Billing

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Position summary

The Software Engineer II, Billing will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Our Integrations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Our headquarters is in Tokyo, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Employment is through our payroll partner in the US. Salary is paid monthly in USD.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line

Preferred qualifications

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Contributions to open source projects

Salary: $144,000 to $184,000 a year

Why work with us

• Annual learning budget
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Paid sick days
• Wellness allowance
• Annual salary review

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

This position requires a background check.

Start: Immediately.

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