Software Engineering Manager, Billing & Checkout

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

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Benefits

Bonus target

Job summary

YouTube Commerce is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team responsible for core order orchestration, subscription lifecycle management, and platform capabilities like Bundles. You will drive the technical roadmap for high‑scale, fault‑tolerant transactional engines with reliability and low latency, collaborating with Product, UX and Payments teams.

As a manager, you guide multiple teams, oversee a large product budget, and direct deployment of mission‑critical systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years in people management or team leadership.
• Experience designing, building, or managing distributed systems, transactional backends, or commerce/billing infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities aligned with broader organizational goals, with clear expectations and regular coaching and feedback.
• Review code produced by engineers to ensure quality, testability, efficiency, and adherence to standards.
• Develop mid-term technical vision and roadmap within scope of one or more teams; evolve it for future requirements.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs and contribute code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Advocate for operational excellence and reliability, ensuring financial data integrity and high availability for transactional pipelines.
• Lead architecture and delivery of high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems managing end-to-end order lifecycle and subscription transitions.

Skills

Bachelor’s degree/Equivalent

Software development

Technical leadership

People management

Distributed systems

Billing/ordering systems

Event-driven architectures

Executive communication

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s or PhD (CS)

Job description

YouTube Commerce is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team responsible for core order orchestration, subscription lifecycle management, and platform capabilities like Bundles. You will drive the technical roadmap for high‑scale, fault‑tolerant transactional engines with reliability and low latency, collaborating with Product, UX and Payments teams.

As a manager, you guide multiple teams, oversee a large product budget, and direct deployment of mission‑critical systems