Staff Engineer, Billing

About the role: At Forter, "Billing" isn't just about invoices, it’s the financial heartbeat of a platform protecting over $500B in annual commerce. As we scale toward our next phase of growth, we are looking for a Senior Engineer to architect the mission critical systems that translate massive data streams into financial reality. We aren't looking for a "maintainer." We are looking for a builder who wants to own the core engine that powers Forter’s diverse and expanding product lines. Why you should join us: Scale that Matters: You’ll handle high-volume data across 1 billion+ identities. This is a "zero-error-margin" environment where precision meets massive scale. AI-First Development: You won’t just use AI tools; you’ll build them. You will drive continuous efforts to automate complex processes and maintain a custom AI Agent designed to orchestrate billing data and handle automated requests, ensuring our systems remain as fast as they are precise. High Autonomy, High Impact: The Billing domain is the cornerstone of every new product launch. If you build it, the whole company feels the impact immediately. What you'll be doing: Design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient systems that handle high-volume data, while collaborating with teammates and individual contributors at Forter Lead projects from concept to production, ensuring the highest standards of quality and financial integrity. Work on data-driven initiatives that improve system performance, efficiency, and billing accuracy Partner with Product and Business stakeholders to navigate technical trade-offs that directly affect Forter's bottom line. Use AI coding tools as a natural part of how you work, reviewing, guiding, and improving AI-generated code is part of the day-to-day here Help foster best practices and maintain a high standard of engineering excellence What you'll need: 8+ years of production backend or data infrastructure experience, with at least 2 years at Staff Engineer or equivalent level Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to explain complex systems and facilitate collaborative solutions. Strong backend fundamentals; Python is our primary language, but we value engineering fundamentals over specific syntax Proven experience owning systems in production, including monitoring, troubleshooting, performance and reliability improvements Familiar with DevOps tools and practices, including CI/CD, deployment pipelines, observability, and quality assurance (unit, integration testing) Experience with AWS and storage at scale (MySQL, Snowflake, Redis) A proactive attitude and a passion for providing technical solutions that bring an immediate business impact and ensure engineering excellence Strong familiarity with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Github Copilot, Cursor, or similar. A genuine AI-first builder mindset, leveraging modern AI tools as a force multiplier to compress execution cycles, cross stack boundaries effortlessly, and ship high-impact features. It would be cool if you have: Familiarity with NoSQL data stores such as Elasticsearch Experience building and maintaining data pipelines using industry-standard frameworks like Airflow, Kafka, Delta Lake, etc Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms Background in billing / ERP systems About us: Commerce is evolving faster than the systems built to support it. Agentic AI is redrawing how people buy. Customer expectations have a new ceiling. And bad actors are evolving alongside every advancement. Forter was built to meet this moment — and stay ahead of it. We are a human-first, AI-built company. Our technology analyzes patterns across a network of over 2 billion shoppers, delivering identity intelligence across the entire commerce journey — from sign-up to checkout to returns — that protects revenue and unlocks great customer experiences simultaneously. With Forter, businesses know who to trust, whether it’s humans or the agents sho…