Payments Systems Engineer (Full-Stack) — Remote & Impact

ElevenLabs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary learning stipend

Annual discretionary travel stipend

Co-working stipend

Annual offsite

Job summary

ElevenLabs in the UK/EU/US remote-friendly environment seeks a full stack engineer (backend-leaning) for Payments. You will scale usage tracking, pricing migrations, and secure billing APIs to support self-serve and enterprise customers.

You should have strong Python, backend design, and experience with APIs, cloud infra, and audit-ready systems. This role emphasizes reliability, security, and collaboration with Finance, Growth, Sales, and Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Python.
• Strong background in backend development.
• Experience with APIs, cloud infrastructure tools, storage solutions and data structures.
• Strong test design and security fundamentals.
• Care and attention to detail when changing live systems that handle money.
• Ability to learn a large existing system quickly and to debug complex production issues.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining usage tracking so that requests are metered accurately without impacting latency.
• Leading our migration of enterprise pricing and usage processing, including new stream-processing services for usage events.
• Making it easy for customers to upgrade and pay, including paying through different entities and supporting new payment providers.
• Working with Finance and Tax teams to meet compliance, audit and reporting requirements.
• Enabling pricing and Growth experiments with Growth and product teams.
• Debugging complex customer billing scenarios: piecing together what happened from the customer's experience, logs and code, and fixing the cause.
• Collaborating with Sales, FDEs, Finance and engineers across the company.

Skills

Python

Backend development

APIs & cloud infra

Data structures

Security fundamentals

Testing & reliability

Bug debugging production

Tools

Kubernetes

GitHub

Job description

ElevenLabs in the UK/EU/US remote-friendly environment seeks a full stack engineer (backend-leaning) for Payments. You will scale usage tracking, pricing migrations, and secure billing APIs to support self-serve and enterprise customers.

You should have strong Python, backend design, and experience with APIs, cloud infra, and audit-ready systems. This role emphasizes reliability, security, and collaboration with Finance, Growth, Sales, and Engineering teams.