About this role
About the Role: You will own the design and architecture of aCommerce's billing platform . Your main goal is to turn billable business events into accurate, auditable charges, invoices, and financial records . This is a highly hands-on leadership role where you will lead a team of data engineers while continuing to write code, build prototypes, and set engineering standards .
Key Responsibilities:
- System Architecture: Design and own the end-to-end architecture of a scalable, multi-country, and multi-currency billing platform .
- Data Pipelines & Modeling: Architect pipelines to extract business events from supply chain and SaaS applications, and define the complete billing data model .
- Pricing Engine: Build a flexible rating and pricing engine that supports various commercial models, including tiered pricing, subscriptions, and per-order fees .
- Hands-on Coding (MUST): Write production code for critical components, build prototypes, and perform comprehensive design and code reviews .
- Engineering Standards: Establish and enforce best practices like CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and infrastructure-as-code .
- Financial Compliance: Ensure the platform meets strict accounting requirements, including revenue recognition, tax, month-end close, and ERP integration .
- Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop the billing engineering team through hiring, goal-setting, and regular feedback .
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field .
- 7+ years of experience in data or software engineering, including at least 2–3 years leading an engineering team .
- Proven experience designing and building billing, invoicing, payments, or other financial systems .
- Expert SQL and strong Python skills, with the ability to write and review production-grade code .
- Strong technical architecture skills and deep experience in data modeling (PostgreSQL and Amazon Redshift) .
- Solid understanding of accounting principles (e.g., order-to-cash, revenue recognition, double-entry bookkeeping) .
- Excellent command of English, both spoken and written .
Useful Additional Experience (Nice to have):
- Experience working with the AWS platform .
- Experience with ERP or accounting systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Dynamics) .
- Experience with multi-entity billing in ecommerce, logistics/3PL, or SaaS .
Perks & Benefits:
- Flexible work from home options, flexible leave, and solid healthcare services .
- Attractive and comfortable workspace located at EmQuartier (Thailand office) .