Software Engineer, Billing & Payments

Tabs is the leading AI-native revenue platform for modern finance and accounting teams. Tabs agents automates the entire contract-to-cash lifecycle, including billing, collections, revenue recognition, and reporting, to help teams eliminate manual work and accelerate cash flow.

High-growth companies like Cursor and Statsig rely on Tabs to generate invoices directly from contracts, reconcile payments in real time, and automate ASC 606 compliance.

Founded in 2023, Tabs has raised over $91 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Primary. The team is headquartered in New York and brings deep expertise in finance and AI.

Why this role exists

Billing is where the rubber meets the road for our customers. It's the system that turns a signed contract into an invoice a customer actually pays, and everything that happens in between is harder than it sounds.

The Tabs Billing and Payments team builds the systems that generate invoices from contracts, orchestrate payment collection, integrate with ERPs and tax platforms, and ensure that every dollar flows correctly from contract to cash. Contracts have variable pricing tiers, usage-based billing, seat true-ups, mid-cycle amendments, credits, discounts, split invoices, and so much more; we enable our customers to customize their billing models to their business, and abstract all the complexity away.

Getting billing right is the foundation of Tabs. A wrong invoice erodes customer trust. A failed payment disrupts cash flow. A broken ERP sync means an accountant spends weeks putting together the pieces to make the books work. We're hiring an engineer who wants to own real systems end-to-end, who's energized by the challenge of making complex financial workflows reliable at scale, and who takes pride in getting the details right.

What you’ll actually work on

Here are examples of real projects engineers on the Billing and Payments team have owned recently:

• Invoice generation pipeline: Built a Temporal-based invoice generation system that resolves billing terms, calculates line items with tiered and usage-based pricing, and assembles invoices - all orchestrated as durable workflows that survive failures and scale horizontally

• Invoice finalization and sending: Built the multi-step finalization workflow that takes a generated invoice through address resolution, tax calculatio), ERP sync, auto-credit application, autocharge via Stripe, and email delivery, with built-in retry, compensation logic, and recovery for every step

• Stripe integration: Own the Stripe integration end-to-end: setup intents, autocharge with configurable retry schedules, payment method management, the customer payment portal, payout reconciliation, and webhook handling.

You’ll work across backend services, data models, APIs and frontend services. You’ll partner closely with Product and Design- quick deskside sessions abound at Tabs! You’re expected to bring opinions to the meetings you join, not just take notes.

What we care about

You’ll thrive at Tabs if you:

• Enjoy owning systems end-to-end, from first design doc to fixing production edge cases weeks later

• Care deeply about correctness and long-term maintainability

• Are curious about domains you don’t already understand, and are willing to sit with discomfort while you learn

• Can disagree respectfully, explain your reasoning and change your mind when the data says you should

We’re optimizing for excellent engineers who are good teammates.

What we don’t care about as much

• Exact years of experience

• Whether you’re “frontend” or “backend” by title

• Whether you’ve worked in fintech before

• Whether you’ve ever seen an invoice

If you’ve built scalable systems, shipped real software and learned from breaking prod a time or two, we want to talk.

Tabs engineering culture

Our core values show up in how we work:

• Respect the Domain
  We don’t shy away from accounting complexity. We dig into the details to build features the right way - even if that means combing through PWC’s revenue recognition guidance on a weekend.
  

• Stay Customer-Centric
  If accounting teams can’t trust the numbers we produce, nothing else matters. Engineers join customer calls when it’s useful and stay in close touch with Support and Success to understand what customers actually need. We put wireframes in front of real users, get feedback directly from accountants and cut processes that slow us down. You won’t hear “that’s not my job” here; we step in and help where it’s needed.
  

• Innovate In-Person
  This is an in-office role. We believe hard problems are solved faster together. This comes with perks like weekly happy hours, chess tournaments, soccer leagues, quarterly hackathons and more whiteboards than employees 😉
  

• Build the Best Vision
  We’re not copying incumbents; we’re rethinking how accounting systems should work from first principles. We get bright people into a room, debate intensely, disagree, commit and execute with urgency. If we make the “wrong” decision, we pivot quickly and ego-less-ly, document our learnings and move on. We operate in one-week sprints so we can adapt when new information surfaces.
  

• Do What You Say
  We value clear ownership and follow-through. Engineers who consistently deliver earn trust quickly and see their scope expand fast- not through politics, but by doing what they said they would do. In other words, we’re looking for drivers, not passengers.
  

• Grow from Discomfort
  This work is hard because we challenge ourselves to ship killer products on tight deadlines. Maybe you will be asked to deliver a feature in half the time you budgeted. Maybe you will need to build a novel frontend experience, even though you’ve been a backend engineer for years. Maybe you will write a technical doc on how to re-architect our reporting backend, 3 years out of school. (All real examples, btw). We’ve learned there are two reactions to this kind of work: “oh s***” and “looks fun, when can I start?” We’re building a team of the second kind. That’s where the growth is.
  

Want a better sense of how Tabs thinks?

We share our wins and our mistakes. A few recent blog posts from the team:

• https://medium.com/tabs-engineering/unit-testing-data-in-the-wild-west-of-domain-design-39cbed3ba01b

• https://medium.com/tabs-engineering/rewriting-a-core-system-a-hit-and-a-miss-04551c92bfc2

• https://medium.com/tabs-engineering/teaching-ai-your-bad-habits-5748d6085659

The stack

We care more about how fast you learn than experience with our exact stack!

• TypeScript, Node, NestJS

• React, Next.js

• Postgres

• Redis

• Temporal for job management

Experience

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience

• Experience building web applications or backend services in production

• Familiarity with modern backend languages and frameworks

• Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, or similar

• Experience working with APIs and relational databases

Final note

If you’re excited by hard problems, care about correctness and want to work with people who are sharp and kind, we’d love to hear from you. If you’re looking for a chill role where you can push some Linear tickets across the board and clock out… this probably isn’t it 🙂

Perks and Benefits (Full-time Employees)

• Competitive compensation and equity

• Unlimited PTO

• Up to 100% employer covered monthly healthcare premium (medical, dental, vision)

• Lunch provided via Sharebite, plus dinner for any later office days.

• Parental leave up to 12 weeks

• Tax free commuter and parking benefits

• Voluntary insurances (Life, Hospital, Critical Illness, Accident)

• Employee Assistance Program (Rightway)

• Free One Medical Membership

• 401k

Tabs is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome teammates of all identities and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can grow, contribute, and feel comfortable being themselves.