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4d ago

Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - Billing

Tavily New York, NY

New York, NY

4d ago

$147k - $224k/yr Full time Backend Developer API APIs

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Job Description

A Senior Software Engineer will design and operate Tavily's billing platform powering an agentic AI search engine, owning the end-to-end billing lifecycle from usage events to invoices. This role is based in New York with hybrid work arrangements.

Role details

Location: New York, NY (hybrid)
Salary: USD 147,200 - 224,300 per year
Experience: Minimum 3 years

Responsibilities

Architect and run the end-to-end billing stack, from usage events through invoicing
Develop metering and usage aggregation pipelines to convert high-volume events into billable amounts
Design and operate prepaid credit and wallet systems with auto top-up and balance management
Support enterprise and contract billing with custom pricing, negotiated terms, and scheduled invoicing
Implement reconciliation, idempotency controls, and invoice accuracy safeguards to ensure revenue data remains correct
Lead the migration to the next generation of the billing platform with zero revenue loss and no downtime
Define observability and quality metrics for billing correctness, freshness, and throughput
Ensure billing systems meet audit and compliance requirements, including SOX and financial audits

Requirements

6+ years building production backend systems, including 3+ years actively building and operating billing or metering systems
Hands-on experience with usage-based metered billing: rating, aggregation, and proration logic
Experience with subscription and recurring billing alongside usage-based models
Hands-on experience with prepaid credits and wallet systems with auto top-up mechanics
Experience with enterprise and contract billing: custom pricing and negotiated terms
End-to-end integration of a third-party billing platform (Stripe Billing, Metronome, Orb, or Zuora)
Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript/Node; Go is a plus
Production experience with transactional databases for financial-grade data (PostgreSQL or equivalent)
Built high-volume event and usage pipelines into a data warehouse (Kafka or Kinesis; Snowflake or BigQuery)
Own billing correctness in production, including reconciliation, idempotency, and invoice accuracy
Product-Led Growth experience: billing for high-volume, self-serve users
Hands-on experience with identity systems in production (Auth0, Okta, or similar)
Shipped revenue systems under SOX or financial audit constraints

Technologies

Python
TypeScript/Node
Go
PostgreSQL
Kafka
Kinesis
Snowflake
BigQuery
Stripe Billing
Metronome
Orb
Zuora
Auth0
Okta

Benefits

Health insurance
401(k) plan with up to 4% company match and immediate vesting
Parental leave: 20 weeks for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
Remote work reimbursement up to $85 per month for mobile and internet
Disability and life insurance

Why Tavily

Full ownership — you oversee the entire infrastructure within a small team
Real scaling challenges, including bursty workloads, cache invalidation, multi-region setups, and millions of daily requests
AI-native company where infrastructure directly powers AI agents used by leading organizations

Nice to have

Led a billing system migration or re-platform with zero revenue loss or downtime
Built a hybrid billing solution combining usage, subscriptions, and prepaid in one system
Experience across payments (Stripe) and metering/rating layers (Metronome / Orb)
Billed a developer-facing API product with pay-as-you-go and API-key metering
Used Snowflake for usage aggregation and revenue analytics

Key employee benefits in the US

Health insurance: 100 percent company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and families
401(k) plan with up to 4 percent company match and immediate vesting
Parental leave: 20 weeks for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
Remote work reimbursement up to $85 per month for mobile and internet
Disability and life insurance: company-paid coverage

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