Staff Software Engineer, Financial Infrastructure

Location: Foster City, CA, USA; hybrid workplace

Salary: $290K–$375K plus equity

Company

Replit is an agentic software creation platform that enables users to build applications with natural language and supports businesses in developing and running their products.

What you will do

• Set technical direction for financial infrastructure focused on enterprise billing, spend controls, and financial correctness.
• Build shared services for usage-based billing, pricing, credits, subscriptions, entitlements, and enterprise contract lifecycles.
• Develop budget enforcement, alerts, overrides, cost attribution, reconciliation, and auditable transaction histories.
• Lead safe migrations that preserve 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, mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, Finance, Sales, and Support.

Requirements

• Staff-level technical ownership, including architecture and delivery of complex cross-team initiatives.
• 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 balancing 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.

Nice to have

• Experience with billing, payments, subscriptions, credits, entitlements, enterprise contracts, negotiated pricing, invoicing, or quote-to-cash automation.
• Experience with high-volume usage metering, pricing calculations, low-latency spend controls, reconciliation, financial reporting, or auditable transaction histories.
• Experience integrating billing, payment, or CRM platforms and deciding what to build versus buy.
• Experience with AI or cloud infrastructure billing, variable costs, distributed workload attribution, spend visibility, budgets, cloud marketplaces, payment recovery, fraud, disputes, or agentic commerce.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee role with competitive salary and equity.
• 401(k) with a 4% match, health, dental, vision, and life insurance; the 401(k) match is US-only.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave; flexible time off and holidays.
• Autonomous work environment, wellness stipend, commuter benefits, and in-office setup reimbursement where applicable.
• Quarterly team gatherings and in-office amenities.