Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join PostHog's Growth team as a full-stack engineer to build and scale their billing system. You will be responsible for creating a world-class billing system capable of handling over $100 million in revenue. The role involves iterating on subscription and payment flows, scaling usage reporting, owning revenue dashboards, and supporting new billing schemes. PostHog offers a fully remote work environment, a generous compensation package, and comprehensive benefits. The ideal candidate possesses experience building and scaling billing systems, full-stack engineering expertise, and a strong understanding of SQL. Prior experience with Kubernetes is a plus. PostHog values transparency, autonomy, and solving big problems.

Requirements

• Experience building and scaling billing systems
• Experience as a full-stack engineer with a focus on the backend
• A keen ability to think through and around edge cases galore
• A working knowledge of SQL
• A love for making simplicity out of complexity (and you don't mind refactoring to clean things up)
• You have started a project from scratch. You might have led a project, been a founder previously, or built an impressive side project

Responsibilities

• Build a world-class billing system that will scale to $100m+ of revenue
• Iterate and experiment with our subscription and payment flows and UI
• Scale and maintain our usage reporting system so that it can keep up with our hyper-fast customer growth
• Own our revenue dashboards and queries
• Create support for new billing schemes for products we are launching
• Improve the billing administration experience for Sales and CS

Preferred Qualifications

Some experience managing and deploying with k8s

Benefits

• Generous, transparent compensation and employee-friendly equity in PostHog
• Unlimited time off with a 25-day minimum (in 2021 the team on average took 32 days off)
• Private medical insurance, including dental and vision (US and UK only)
• Pension/401k contributions (4% matching)
• Generous parental, bereavement and child loss leave
• Training budget and free books
• $200/month budget towards co-working or café working and $300/month for team socials
• Spill mental health chat
• $100/month budget to provide support to open-source projects
• We'll be your first investor
• Regular team off-sites (we went to Iceland in March) with carbon offsetting for work travel with Project Wren