Sequence

Sequence

Senior Software Engineer - NYC

New York City · Senior

H1B sponsorship available$210k-$230kDetected 84 days ago
TypeScriptKotlinReactSpringGitPostgreSQLBigQueryGCPCloud PlatformsTerraformDesign SystemsM&AFP&ACommunication

About the role

  • Cognition, incident.io, MoonPay, and 100+ other high-growth companies trust us to handle their entire revenue cycle across quoting, billing, and revenue recognition.
  • Small team, big opportunity, real ownership.
  • You'll work on systems that process customer usage data on which billing and invoicing depend.

Responsibilities

  • Own revenue-critical event infrastructure.
  • Design event streaming pipelines that handle high throughput with low latency.
  • Build robust systems where data accuracy is non-negotiable.
  • Design scalable data systems.
  • You'll work with event streaming architectures, building sophisticated ingestion pipelines and query optimization strategies.
  • Build for the next phase of growth.
  • You'll design systems that work beautifully today and scale to 10x the load tomorrow.
  • We care deeply about the quality of the product we're building.
  • You'll have real influence on what we build and how we build it.
  • You'll design systems that process high-velocity event streams, make technical decisions that balance cost and performance at scale, and build infrastructure that never compromises on reliability.

Requirements

  • You have strong experience in event-driven architectures.
  • You can reason about columnar storage, indexing strategies, and query optimization without needing a whiteboard

Skills

  • GitHub, Slack, Notion, Linear
  • Read our engineering principles https://sequencehq.com/blog/engineering-principles
  • Most of the team learned our stack here:
  • Backend: Kotlin (modular monolith using Http4k, Spring Boot, Exposed, Result4k)
  • Storage: Postgres, BigQuery
  • Async messaging: Google Cloud Pub/Sub
  • Infrastructure: Google Cloud, Terraform
  • Frontend: TypeScript, React
  • Monitoring: Google Cloud Monitoring, Sentry
  • Tools: GitHub, Slack, Notion, Linear
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  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Compensation

  • $210,000 - $230,000
  • Salary: $210,000 - $230,000

Benefits

  • Equity: Meaningful share options
  • 20 days vacation plus national holidays
  • Competitive healthcare and 401K
  • Bae HQ: Episode 207 https://www.thebaehq.com/podcasts/episode-207-riya: a16z round, category vision.

Company info

  • a dropped event means someone isn't charged correctly.
  • An outage at month-end means finance teams can't collect revenue from their customers.
  • See more of what we've shipped in our public changelog https://www.sequencehq.com/changelog.
  • We're looking for ambitious software engineers with strong backend and cloud infrastructure experience to build the systems that power billing for modern B2B companies.
  • Late enough that customers depend on what you ship.
  • You care about customers - you want to understand why you're building something, not just what
  • Prefer a slower pace. Customers are depending on what we ship

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Visa sponsorship available
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