Staff Software Engineer, Financial Infrastructure

The role

You will set technical direction and build the commerce platform for Replit's Money team. This involves designing systems for enterprise billing, spend controls, and financial infrastructure to enable agent-assisted purchasing.

What you will do

• Set technical direction for Replit's financial infrastructure.
• Build shared services for usage-based billing, pricing, credits, subscriptions, and entitlements.
• Automate enterprise contract lifecycles including onboarding, amendments, and renewals.
• Build budget enforcement, alerts, and overrides for customer spend control.
• Attribute AI usage costs to customers, workspaces, users, or agents.
• Build reconciliation and audit trails for balances and invoices.
• Simplify the billing stack through safe migrations.
• Own production reliability through testing, observability, and incident response.
• Lead cross-team delivery and mentor engineers.
• Partner with Product, Finance, Sales, and Support.

Required qualifications

• Track record of Staff-level technical ownership setting architecture and delivering complex initiatives.
• Deep experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems.
• Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, databases, and event-driven architecture.
• Sound judgment around transactions, consistency, concurrency, idempotency, and failure recovery.
• Experience evolving live systems and migrating data without compromising correctness or availability.
• Product judgment that balances customer needs, delivery speed, and long-term system quality.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical partners.
• Hands-on leadership through implementation, design reviews, mentoring, and production ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience with billing, payments, subscriptions, credits, entitlements, or other financial systems.
• Experience with enterprise contracts, negotiated pricing, invoicing, or quote-to-cash automation.
• Experience with high-volume usage metering, pricing calculations, or low-latency spend controls.
• Experience building reconciliation, financial reporting, or auditable transaction histories with Finance and Accounting.
• Experience integrating billing, payment, or CRM platforms.
• Experience with AI or cloud infrastructure billing, including variable costs and attribution across distributed workloads.
• Experience building customer-facing spend visibility, budgets, or internal tools.
• Experience with cloud marketplace billing, payment recovery, or fraud and dispute workflows.
• Familiarity with agentic commerce or delegated spending.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Equity
• 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
• Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
• Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Autonomous Work Environment
• In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)
• Quarterly Team Gatherings
• In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)

About the company

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. It is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.