Full-Stack Engineer, Backend Leaning - Payments (Remote - UK, EU and US)

IllTip; United Kingdom; À distance; GBP 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

IllTip is seeking a backend-leaning full-stack engineer for the payments team to own billing, metering, and pricing across self-serve and enterprise accounts. The role emphasizes precision due to visible impact on revenue and customer experience.

You will work on usage tracking, pricing migrations, and payment flows while coordinating with finance and growth teams. A strong Python background and careful production-change discipline are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong Python skills and backend development background.
• Familiarity with API design, cloud infrastructure, storage solutions and system design patterns.
• Solid test design and security fundamentals.
• Careful, detail-oriented approach changing live money-handling systems.
• Ability to learn a large codebase quickly and debug production issues.
• No formal degree required

Responsabilités

• Build and maintain usage tracking with low latency.
• Lead migration of pricing and usage processing including stream processing.
• Improve upgrade and payment flows across multiple entities and providers.
• Collaborate with finance, tax, and product teams on compliance and reporting.
• Support pricing experiments with growth and product teams.
• Investigate complex billing issues by tracing customer journeys in logs and code

Connaissances

Python

Backend development

API design

Security fundamentals

Production systems

Description du poste

Priority hiring in the UK, EU and US; exceptional candidates in other countries are considered too. This is a backend-leaning full-stack engineering role on the payments team of an AI audio research and product company. The team owns how customers are billed, how usage is metered, and how pricing and payments work across self-serve and enterprise accounts. Because billing errors are immediately visible to customers and affect company revenue, the work demands precision. The role suits engineers who enjoy careful changes to live financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain usage tracking so requests are metered accurately without adding noticeable latency.
• Lead migration of enterprise pricing and usage processing, including stream-processing services for usage events.
• Improve upgrade and payment flows, including payments across multiple legal entities and integrating new payment providers.
• Work with finance and tax teams on compliance, audit and reporting requirements.
• Support pricing and growth experiments with growth and product teams.
• Investigate complex billing issues by reconstructing customer journeys from logs and code, then fix the root cause.

Requirements

• Strong Python skills and a solid background in backend development.
• Familiarity with API design, cloud infrastructure, storage solutions and common system design patterns.
• Solid test design and security fundamentals.
• Careful, detail-oriented approach when changing production systems that handle money.
• Ability to learn a large existing codebase quickly and debug difficult production issues.
• Evidence of hard technical problems solved through past projects or open source contributions; no formal degree required.

Applicants must be based in: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, United States.