Full-Stack Engineer (Backend Leaning) - Payments Engineering

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Europe, USA
Experience
3 years

Job description

Full stack engineer (backend leaning) on ElevenLabs' Payments team, which owns billing, usage tracking, pricing and payments across self-serve and enterprise. The role expands and evolves the payments systems that underpin company revenue.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time
Work mode
Remote · Europe, USA

What you'll do

  • Building and maintaining usage tracking so that requests are metered accurately without impacting latency
  • Leading the migration of enterprise pricing and usage processing, including new stream-processing services for usage events
  • Making it easy for customers to upgrade and pay, including paying through different entities and supporting new payment providers
  • Working with Finance and Tax teams to meet compliance, audit and reporting requirements
  • Enabling pricing and Growth experiments with Growth and product teams
  • Debugging complex customer billing scenarios: piecing together what happened from the customer's experience, logs and code, and fixing the cause
  • Collaborating with Sales, FDEs, Finance and engineers across the company
  • Scoping carefully, planning migrations, and rolling changes out without disrupting customers when extending or replacing existing systems

What we're looking for

  • Expertise in Python
  • A strong background in backend development
  • Experience with common software and system design patterns and infrastructure, including APIs, cloud infrastructure tools, storage solutions and data structures
  • Strong test design and security fundamentals
  • Care and attention to detail when changing live systems that handle money
  • The ability to learn a large existing system quickly and to debug complex production issues
  • No formal experience, certifications, or degrees required; engineers who can show they have solved impressively hard problems, through past projects or GitHub contributions

Nice to have

  • Experience with payment processing providers, or with billing and usage-based pricing systems
  • Experience with stream processing or high-throughput event pipelines
  • Experience working with finance, tax or audit requirements
  • Experience with Kubernetes

Your team

Payments team

Owns how ElevenLabs charges customers: billing, usage tracking, pricing and payments across self-serve and enterprise.

Benefits

  • Innovative culture: part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI
  • Growth paths: countless opportunities to drive impact beyond your immediate role and responsibilities
  • Learning & development: annual discretionary stipend supporting professional development
  • Social travel: annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year
  • Annual team offsite: entire team gathers in a new location each year (past offsites included Croatia, Italy and Cancún)
  • Co-working: monthly co-working stipend if not located near one of the main hubs

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About ElevenLabs

AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology

ElevenLabs launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. It serves millions of users and thousands of businesses, from fast-growing startups to large enterprises. It has expanded from voice into three main platforms: ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative and ElevenAPI.

Key facts

  • 2023
  • AI research and product
  • Launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model
  • Serves millions of users and thousands of businesses
  • Raised $781M in funding
  • Last valuation was $22B
  • Expanded from voice into three main platforms: ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative and ElevenAPI
  • ElevenCreative supports 70+ languages
  • Team is based across the UK, EU and US
  • Offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Warsaw

Partners & customers

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What they value

  • High-velocity: rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy
  • Impact not job titles
  • AI first
  • Excellence everywhere
  • Global team: we prioritize your talent, not your location