Senior Director of Engineering, Billing Platform (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid in Austin, London, Lisbon, San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle

Estimated annual salary: $273,000–$341,000 for Seattle, New York City, or California-based hires; $286,000–$258,000 for San Francisco/Bay Area-based hires.

Company

hirify.global operates a large global network that protects and accelerates Internet applications for customers ranging from individual bloggers to Fortune 500 companies.

What you will do

• Own the multi-year engineering strategy, investment plan, and execution roadmap for the billing platform and quote-to-cash integrations.
• Lead and develop a distributed organization of engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and product engineering teams.
• Build and operate systems for usage-based billing, subscriptions, enterprise contracts, purchasing, invoicing, payments, credits, refunds, tax, entitlements, and customer lifecycle changes.
• Improve financial data integrity across billing, payments, revenue recognition, ERP, CRM, tax, data warehouse, and reporting systems.
• Strengthen reconciliation, observability, alerting, SLOs, incident response, and operational controls for billing-critical services.
• Partner with Product, Finance, Revenue Operations, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Sales, and Support on architecture, platform decisions, risks, and delivery.

Requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 7+ years leading engineering teams and 3+ years directly managing engineering managers.
• Experience leading billing, payments, fintech, financial, commerce, or quote-to-cash platforms where correctness and auditability are mandatory.
• Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, SaaS platforms, service-oriented architectures, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience defining and executing multi-year platform strategies across multiple teams, business functions, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience with subscription or usage-based billing, metering, invoicing, payments, taxation, entitlement management, revenue data, or reconciliation.
• Experience recruiting, coaching, and retaining engineering managers and senior technical leaders, with strong standards for quality, accountability, documentation, and customer empathy.

Nice to have

• Experience with Stripe or other payment processors, Salesforce or other CRM systems, ERP systems, tax engines, revenue recognition platforms, data warehouses, and BI tools.
• Experience modernizing legacy financial systems or leading large data migrations in a public company or high-growth SaaS business.
• Experience with enterprise, reseller, marketplace, multi-currency, global taxation, public-sector, or consumption-based billing.
• Experience with financial controls, SOC 2, PCI, privacy, fraud prevention, audit support, or regulated financial workflows.
• Practical fluency with AI tools for accelerating engineering work and improving team quality without weakening ownership or judgment.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity plan participation.
• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter, fertility and family-forming benefits.
• Mental health support, employee assistance, global travel medical insurance, life and accident insurance, and disability coverage.
• 401(k) retirement savings and employee stock participation plans.
• Flexible paid time off plus parental, pregnancy, medical, and bereavement leave programs.
• Offer-stage candidates may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.