Payment & Billing Systems Engineer

Job Description
Studio is an AI-powered creative platform where creators generate, edit, and manage digital avatars and media. Our business runs on subscription revenue (Free, Pro, and Max tiers), usage-based credits, and real-time AI workflows. We operate a fully self‑hosted production environment on DigitalOcean with 14+ servers and handle a high volume of asynchronous jobs and payments daily.

We’re hiring a Payment & Billing Systems Engineer to own and harden the most business‑critical part of our platform: payments, subscriptions, and financial reliability.

This is not a greenfield role and not a surface‑level “payments integration.” Billing bugs directly impact revenue, trust, and support volume — and today, this system needs a dedicated technical owner who has built real payment infrastructure before and understands the edge cases that only show up in production. If you’ve architected billing systems, debugged reconciliation gaps, and shipped reliable subscri...