Senior Backend Developer (Billing team)

AppFollow is an App reputation automation platform. Our main goal is to ease the everyday routines of app developers, product managers, marketing teams, customer support, etc. AppFollow helps you gather and manage your apps and games data, increase app average rating, improve app store rankings, and app user loyalty.

This is a fully remote opportunity for a Senior Backend Developer (Billing team) to enhance AppFollow's billing systems, ensuring seamless financial operations for international customers. As a member of the team, you'll focus on developing, maintaining, and optimizing the core billing infrastructure, allowing companies worldwide to manage their financial interactions effectively using AppFollow.

About the Role

- Develop and maintain the billing functionality of the AppFollow platform, including integrations with Stripe and other payment systems.

- Ensure efficient handling of legacy billing systems, working to modernize and optimize them where possible.

- Collaborate with the team to understand and maintain complex financial systems and processes.

- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the billing system aligns with business goals and customer needs.

- Design and implement solutions for invoicing, subscription management, and transaction tracking.

- Debug, test, and troubleshoot billing features to ensure accuracy and compliance.

- Ensure the scalability and security of the billing infrastructure.

- Write and maintain technical documentation to support the billing platform.

- System architecture design: Collaborate with other developers to design and implement an efficient, scalable, and secure billing architecture.

- Deployment and monitoring: Configure deployment and monitoring using tools and infrastructure from the Platform team.

About You

- 7+ years of software development experience

- Expertise in integrating with payment platforms, particularly Stripe.

- Proficiency in Python with experience in asyncio and FastAPI (or similar frameworks for API development).

- Strong SQL skills, particularly with MySQL, with a solid understanding of PostgreSQL.

- Experience with ORM (preferably SQLAlchemy) and message brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ).

- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate complex challenges.

- A business mindset with a focus on delivering solutions that align with financial and operational objectives.

- Strong communication skills, with proficiency in English and Russian.

Nice to have: 

- 2+ years of experience in large fintech or billing systems.

Benefits we offer

- Full-time remote job. Though you’re always welcome to spend time with us in our office in Helsinki

- Paid Vacation and Sick leaves. Take the time you need to stay motivated, charged, and balanced. By prior agreement, you can have days off for special occasions

- Generous social benefits package including health insurance, equipment reimbursement, home office moderation bonus, and many more

- Stock options bonus according to the employee stock ownership plan

- You’ll have executive-level visibility into how the company is run and performing. We are always ready to provide dedicated support and fast-track your onboarding, including giving you the tools you need to be successful.

The biggest benefit is our awesome AppFollow team. We're a team of open-minded and friendly high-skilled professionals that enjoy creating a great product, growing together, and supporting each other.

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AppFollow focuses on representation, fairness, and equal opportunities for all genders, gender identities, ethnicities, nationalities, sexual orientations, religions, disabilities, and ages. We aim to establish and maintain a welcoming and supportive workplace that offers equal growth and development opportunities for all team members across the company. AppFollow is a multicultural company with people from around the globe with different cultures and backgrounds. We expect every team member to be understanding of our differences, respectful, friendly and open. Integrity is essential to creating a welcoming workplace for all, protecting our reputation for each other and for the future of the company. We expect every single team member to commit to the AppFollow culture. We believe in respect, taking care of one another, trust, collaboration and kindness.