Principal Software Engineer

The role

You will lead the Billing and Hub engineering teams as a hands-on technical leader, with a primary focus on Billing. You will own the end-to-end design of the billing service and represent the India team in senior architecture forums.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership for the Billing and Hub teams and guide engineers day to day.
• Own the end-to-end design of the billing service, including integrations with finance and CRM systems, subscriptions, entitlements and consumption.
• Represent India in architecture reviews and senior technical forums, and manage dependencies across teams.
• Partner with Product, GTM and Finance to evolve billing and consumption models as pricing changes.
• Work hands-on with engineers using AI and agentic tools, and mentor colleagues to do the same.

Required qualifications

• Extensive backend experience in Java and Spring Boot, with a strong product company background.
• Proven system design and architecture skills, with experience leading technical direction at Principal level.
• Experience with billing, subscription or entitlement systems.
• Solid understanding of authentication, authorisation and permissions.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Practical experience using AI tools in your own development work, or building AI-enabled solutions.
• Curiosity about agentic ways of working.

Benefits

• Company equity
• 27 days paid time off
• 12 days of company holiday
• 5 days paid volunteering leave
• Group Mediclaim (GMC)
• Enhanced parental leave policies
• MacBook Pro

Before you apply

• Matillion recruiters contact candidates only from @matillion.com email addresses.
• Matillion will never ask for money, fees or bank details during hiring.

About the company

Matillion is the company behind Maia, an AI Data Automation platform. It has teams across the UK, US and India.