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    Backend Engineer — Billing

    PostHog
    Remote
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    30 days ago
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    Requirements

    • Strong backend engineering skills with Python, SQL, and complex data modeling
    • Experience with data pipelines, task queues, and workflow orchestration (Celery, Temporal, Dagster)
    • Ability to handle edge cases, error handling, rollbacks, and retries effectively
    • Self-driven with experience leading major projects or shipping impressive side projects

    What You'll Do

    • Scaling the billing system to $100M+ revenue by the end of 2026 and beyond
    • Building billing primitives flexible enough to support new pricing models without rearchitecting
    • Making usage reporting and limiting near-realtime
    • Turning usage and raw invoice data into actionable internal reports, accurate forecasts, and compliant financials
    • Ensuring billing infrastructure is modular, fast to iterate on, and reliable
    • Implementing a new ledger-based revenue model and rebuilding dashboards and investor reports
    • Making billing the source of truth for pricing, subscriptions, and invoicing
    • Shipping multiple pricing launches and changes quarterly

    Nice to Have

    • Experience building and scaling usage-based billing systems
    • Interest in revenue modeling, forecasting, and accounting ledgers
    • Familiarity with terms like Q2C, AR, B2R, GAAP, ASC 606, NRR

    About PostHog

    PostHog is an open source platform that helps build successful products by providing tools to evaluate feature impact and customer value.

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