Software Engineer, Full Stack

MissionOrb is on an ambitious mission to provide every business with the infrastructure to unlock their revenue. Best-in class businesses find ways to effectively align their monetization to product usage—whether that's through seats, consumption, feature limits, or usage-based tiers. Orb brings that opportunity to every software company.We are reimagining billing and invoicing for this era of hybrid pricing in software. Billing is no longer just a finance problem, but also a high-stakes engineering observability problem that customers urgently need solved. At Orb, we take a developer-first, data infrastructure approach to this problem. We make it possible for companies to fully automate their current billing process, and to evolve their monetization strategy over time.Orb supports the end-to-end workflow for revenue: developers love our product’s extensibility and intuitive API, product managers become empowered to iterate on pricing and packaging much faster, finance teams get fine-grained reporting to facilitate revenue recognition, and customer-facing teams benefit from the transparency Orb brings to the customer relationship.About OrbOrb is the modern billing infrastructure powering revenue workflows for the next wave of AI and software companies. We believe that pricing and billing shouldn’t be a blocker to building and shipping great products. We power billing for highly innovative companies like Vercel, Pinecone, Perplexity, Replit, and work with our customers on some of their most crucial revenue initiatives.Orb has raised $44.1 million in funding from top-tier investors like Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, Greylock, and founders and operators from companies like Plaid, Datadog, Notion, Asana, HubSpot, and more.Role & ImpactAs an early engineer at Orb, you’ll help to build the technical foundations of a critical product that needs to be reliable and accurate at scale. You’ll work closely with our customers to understand pain points in their business processes, and help incorporate those insights into our product roadmap.Orb has a broad range of technical challenges that you’ll tackle in concert with our team:Our product data model should be simple to understand and powerful enough to support the sophisticated needs of an array of businesses Our system needs to maintain the scaling characteristics to support real-time ingestion and query, which come with the design challenges of performance, consistency, and load isolation.Orb’s product approach centers around extensibility, where developers can build on top what comes out-of-the-boxYou’ll also lay the groundwork for engineering and product processes, ensuring that our team can continue to build quickly and serve our customers for years to come.About YouYou have 4+ years of experience in software engineeringEnthusiastic about working on a broad range of technical challenges across the stackAttention to detail in designing a product with deep user empathy: in visual UX, API design, and everything in betweenExcited to engage with customers directly to shape the Orb productBased in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate (with support from Orb)You Might Be a Good Addition If YouHave worked on developer-facing products or an internal platform teamHave experience working on large-scale data infrastructure problems or distributed systemsEnjoy understanding the nitty gritty of technical domains deeplyIn order to thoughtfully scale the company and avoid downstream inequities, we don’t use leveling titles at Orb. You will not see us use prefixes like “Senior” in our job descriptions. We include experience requirements for every role and compensate employees based on their experience and internal level within Orb.Orb’s Tech StackAt Orb, we believe great engineers can learn any stack, so you do not need experience with these specific tools and we encourage you to apply regardless.Tech StackFrontend: Typescript + React + Tailwind CSSBackend: PythonDatastores: PostgreSQL + Apache DruidStreaming Platforms: Kafka + Spark StreamingCloud Platform: AWSWorking at OrbWhen you meet our team, you’ll see we’re a group of dedicated and kind individuals who care deeply about solving what is one of the most mission-critical problems for any business.Every one of us has outsized impact on the business, our product, and our customers—we hold ourselves to a standard of excellence, with the empowerment to take risks and the judgment to focus our time on maximizing leverage.We are not a culture of long hours, but we approach our work with intensity and a sense of urgency. With a product like ours, minutes matter: we can help accelerate other businesses tremendously if we’re focused on building quickly while maintaining critical attention to detail. When we’re ‘on’, we’re on; we work hard, then we go home.We will focus on setting you up for success, with the right expectations and enablement. We coach on outcomes, not inputs or style. We show up for each other with kindness, which earns us the ability to have difficult conversations with trust by default and openness to feedback.As a growing organization, we value in-person collaboration. We see it as a way to achieve our mission faster, in an environment of rapid ideation, strong alignment, and that energy that makes work more fun.BenefitsMedical insurance - 100% coverage for you and dependentsDental, vision, and life insuranceUnlimited PTO, with 15 days minimum encouraged401k plan16-week paid parental leave with equity vestingCommuter stipendCatered lunches in the officeEqual Opportunity EmployerWe work with each other day in and day out, and strongly believe that building a diverse and inclusive team is key to our long-term goals and success as a company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.