Senior Principal Software Engineer - Billing

Zuora, Inc. seeks Senior Principal Software Engineer - Billing to:  

• Lead large, strategic, and cross-functional feature releases across subscription management, order services, and billing domains, often spanning multiple teams and engineering areas. 
• Refactor and modernize complex legacy billing codebases to high-performance, scalable microservices-based architectures. 
• Define optimized data models, leverage in-memory processing, and ensure systems can handle large-scale enterprise transaction volumes with low-latency APIs. 
• Actively design, implement, and review production-grade code in Java, Kotlin, and related technologies. You will be expected to code daily and lead by example. 
• Act as the primary architect for major projects, providing design direction, conducting cross-team reviews, and ensuring alignment with long-term technical strategy. 
• Champion engineering excellence in clean coding, testing, performance optimization, and maintainability across the organization. Coach and mentor engineers, fostering technical growth and ensuring consistent high quality delivery. 

Position requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electronic Engineering, Information Systems or Technology, or related field followed by 7 years of experience in a software engineer, or related position.  Position requires 5 years of experience with each of the following:  

1. Developing and delivering enterprise SaaS software at scale. 
2. Designing, building, and maintaining billing and subscription management software.
3. Maintaining, refactoring and modernizing legacy enterprise codebases. 
4. Development with Java, Kotlin, Spring Framework, Hibernate, MySQL, and cloud technologies.
5. Using AWS for designing and building scalable, distributed, high-performance systems in large enterprise environments. 
6. Guiding teams through complex technical decisions for architectural system design and mentoring more junior software engineers. 
7. Collaborating across remote global teams and aligning multiple stakeholders on technical solutions.
8. Translating complex business requirements into scalable solutions. 
9. Programming & Frameworks: MyBatis, JSP, and Struts. 
10. Databases: RDBMS (MySQL or Postgres); Non-Relational DBs (Redis, MongoDB, or DynamoDB).
11. Messaging & Integration: ActiveMQ, Kafka, RESTful APIs, SOAP, and Graph APIs.
12. Architecture: Microservices and experience with large-scale distributed systems and legacy-to-modern migration. 
13. CI/CD, automating testing frameworks, and performance tuning & profiling. 

Job Location: Foster City, CA (Within the same MSA / Commuting distance of Redwood City, CA)  Rate of Pay: $213,512.00 - $352,000.00 per year.  

Apply online at https://www.zuora.com/careers/ or send resume via email to recruitment_gc@zuora.com with  requisition number 1098 in the subject line. 

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