Software Engineer, Billing Engine
About Orb
Orb is on a mission to revolutionize billing infrastructure for the modern era of AI and software. We empower businesses to align their monetization with product usage—whether through seats, consumption, feature limits, or hybrid pricing models. Our developer-first, data-driven approach enables companies to automate their billing processes and adapt their pricing strategies with ease.
With Orb, revenue workflows are seamless for every team: developers love our intuitive API and extensibility, product managers iterate on pricing and packaging faster, finance teams gain fine-grained reporting for revenue recognition, and customer-facing teams build trust through billing transparency. Companies like Vercel, Pinecone, and Replit rely on Orb to power their most critical revenue initiatives.
Backed by $44.1 million in funding from top investors like Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, and Greylock, we’re building a hybrid, in-office culture in downtown San Francisco (3 days/week). Our team thrives on collaboration, focus, and kindness, with a shared commitment to solving high-impact problems for our customers. At Orb, every team member drives meaningful impact, and we’re just getting started.
About the role
As an early engineer at Orb, you’ll help to build the technical foundations of a critical product that needs to be reliable and accurate at scale. You’ll work closely with our customers to understand pain points in their business processes, and help incorporate those insights into our product roadmap. Our customers rely on Orb to transform an inherently complex domain (billing, from data ingestion to subscription management and revenue recognition) into an efficient, powerful, and easy-to-use experience.
In this role you will
Tackle a broad range of technical challenges with our team, like:
Designing and maintaining the primitives of Orb’s core billing engine that underlie the rest of the product, prioritizing extensibility and straightforward out-of-the-box functionality .
Evolving our product data model to be both powerful enough to support the most complex billing arrangements for the most complex businesses, and simple enough to understand and build on top of
Scaling our system (with real-time ingestion and query) to the largest deployments, with high expectations for stability, performance, and experience – across the API and web app
Collaborate across functions within and beyond the Billing Engine team – from PM and design, to sales and customer success – to shape our product strategy, and deliver customer value from concept to implementation.
Learn from a talented peer group, and share your expertise
About you
4+ years of experience in software engineering
Enthusiastic about working on a broad range of technical challenges across the stack
Attention to detail in designing a product with deep user empathy (in visual UX, API design, and everything in between)
Excited to engage with customers directly to shape the Orb product
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate (with support from Orb)
Please note: We value in-person collaboration and have built a hybrid, in office culture requiring 3 days per week at our HQ in downtown San Francisco. We see it as a way to achieve our mission faster, in an environment of rapid ideation, strong alignment, and that energy that makes work more fun. Unless specifically noted in the job above, please plan to join us in person in San Francisco.
Benefits
Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% coverage for you and dependents
Unlimited PTO (with 15 days minimum encouraged), 11 paid holidays, plus one week of time off during the last week of December
401k plan
16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting
Commuter stipend
Catered lunches in the office
Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
Equal Opportunity Employer
We work with each other day in and day out, and strongly believe that building a diverse and inclusive team is key to our long-term goals and success as a company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Join Orb as a Software Engineer for our Billing Engine in sunny San Francisco! At Orb, we are on a quest to transform the billing landscape for the new era of AI and software, and we want you to be part of this exciting journey. Here, you’ll design and maintain core components of our innovative billing engine, directly influencing how our customers experience email invoicing and revenue management. With 4+ years of software engineering experience, you’ll tackle a variety of challenges while working closely with end-users to understand their pain points and incorporate those real-world insights into our product roadmap. Your passion for designing intuitive systems that are both powerful and user-friendly will be put to great use, as you will evolve our data model to handle even the most complex billing scenarios. You'll collaborate with teams across our organization—from product management and design to sales—to ensure we deliver real value, all while enjoying a hybrid work culture that fosters creativity and collaboration. We value in-person engagement which means you’ll be at our downtown San Francisco office three days a week, working alongside a talented group of individuals who care about kindness and driving impactful solutions. Plus, we offer great benefits such as unlimited PTO, comprehensive insurance, meaningful equity options, and catered lunches. If you're eager to innovate and enthusiastic about solving intricate problems, Orb is the perfect place for you.
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