Staff Payments Backend Engineer – Scale Subscriptions

speak.com; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Speak seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own subscription payments end‑to‑end across mobile and web, ensuring correct charges, reliable renewals, and consistent entitlements. You’ll design scalable infrastructure across RevenueCat, Paddle, Stripe, Apple App Store, and Google Play, building safeguards and monitoring to prevent failures.

You’ll lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Growth, Product, Finance, Support, and Platform Engineering to ship monetization

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with ownership of complex, production systems.
• Extensive experience with recurring subscriptions and billing workflows.
• Strong backend and distributed-systems background using modern stacks.

Responsibilities

• Own subscription payments end-to-end across mobile and web.
• Design reliable payment infrastructure across providers and internal systems.
• Implement idempotent processing, webhooks, safe retries, and reconciliation.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and operational processes for billing reliability.
• Lead technical investigations and drive root-cause fixes for payment issues.
• Shape future payments architecture for new providers and markets.
• Enable other teams with clear interfaces, testing practices, and docs.

Skills

Staff-level engineering experience

Subscriptions / payments domain

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

GCP

Reliability / incident response

Tools

RevenueCat

Paddle

Stripe Billing

Apple App Store

Google Play

Job description

Speak seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own subscription payments end‑to‑end across mobile and web, ensuring correct charges, reliable renewals, and consistent entitlements. You’ll design scalable infrastructure across RevenueCat, Paddle, Stripe, Apple App Store, and Google Play, building safeguards and monitoring to prevent failures.

You’ll lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Growth, Product, Finance, Support, and Platform Engineering to ship monetization