Metropolis Technologies · 6 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Revenue Platform
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$220K/yr - $250K/yr
8+ years expMetropolis Technologies is an artificial intelligence company focused on creating frictionless, checkout-free experiences through computer vision technology. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of their billing, payments, and invoicing infrastructure, ensuring financial systems are resilient and efficient while supporting the company's growth.
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Responsibilities
Own the technical architecture and evolution of Metropolis's billing, payments, and invoicing systems, establishing standards for financial accuracy, transaction integrity, and compliance that ensure every dollar is correctly captured and accounted for
Design and implement resilient payment processing with support for multiple payment gateways (Stripe, etc.), intelligent routing between processors, retry strategies for failed transactions, and graceful handling of partial failures to maximize payment success rates
Build comprehensive monitoring and reporting for revenue operations, including payment success rates, billing accuracy metrics, reconciliation dashboards, failed transaction alerts, and audit trails that provide visibility from customer transactions to accounting close
Partner with finance and operations teams on payment failures, billing disputes, refund workflows, and reconciliation issues – building tools and automation that reduce manual intervention and improve mean time to resolution for customer-impacting revenue issues
Drive adoption of revenue system best practices across services, including idempotent payment processing, distributed transaction handling, compensation workflows for failures, audit logging, and testing strategies that ensure financial correctness
Own integrations with external systems, including payment gateways, ERP, data analytics, etc., ensuring reliable data flow and maintaining compliance requirements across the revenue stack
Qualification
Required
8+ years of hands-on engineering experience with a focus on building revenue systems like payment platforms
Strong systems thinking for financial correctness with proven ability to design distributed revenue systems that handle edge cases gracefully: partial failures, duplicate requests, timing issues, currency conversion, tax calculation, and maintaining transaction integrity across service boundaries
Database and financial data expertise, including transaction isolation, audit logging, point-in-time recovery, handling financial data migrations, and experience with systems that require both high availability and absolute correctness
Payment gateway and integration experience with production knowledge of Stripe, PayPal, or similar processors; tax calculation services; accounting system integrations; and the operational reality of depending on external financial services, including compliance requirements like PCI-DSS
Excellent technical communication with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams (particularly finance, accounting, and data teams), document complex systems, conduct post-mortems, and establish reliability standards organization-wide
Experience with sophisticated usage of rapidly developing AI-assisted development skills in real-world codebases, including fluent use of Claude Code/GPT Codex/Windsurf or similar tools in multi-agent mode, spec-driven development (SDD), MCP/skills optimization, context/prompt engineering
Local to New York City, Seattle, or the Los Angeles area
Preferred
BS or MS in Computer Science or a relevant engineering discipline
Expert-level revenue systems engineering with hands-on experience building billing platforms, payment processing pipelines, reconciliation systems, and handling challenges like idempotent transactions, failed payment retries, proration logic, multi-currency support, and revenue recognition – you've seen these problems before and know the patterns that work
Expert revenue systems engineering with hands-on experience building billing platforms, payment processing, reconciliation, and managing complex challenges like idempotent transactions, payment retries, proration, multi-currency support, and revenue recognition
Financial systems expertise with deep experience implementing audit trails, reconciliation workflows, revenue reporting, and compliance controls at scale – you understand what it takes to maintain penny-perfect accuracy
Java expertise with a deep understanding of JVM performance, concurrency, and operational characteristics. Scala experience is a big plus
Experience with AI-powered development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar agentic coding tools for enhanced productivity
Benefits
Healthcare benefits
A 401(k) plan
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
A lucrative stock option plan
Bonus plans
Company
Metropolis Technologies
Metropolis is building AI for the real world.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$3.53BKey Investors
LionTreeJP Morgan Chase3L Capital,Eldridge Industries
2025-11-06Series D· $500M
2025-11-06Debt Financing· $1.1B
2023-10-05Series C· $1.05B
Leadership Team
Alexander Israel
Co-Founder & CEO
Travis Kell
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
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