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