Sequence
Sequence
Senior Software Engineer (New York)
Full-time
Hybrid
$180K - $230K
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About this role

We're looking for mid-level and senior engineers software engineers with strong, frontend, product, and backend experience to build the systems that power billing for modern B2B companies.

We're a lean team growing to 20+ engineers. You'll have real influence on what we build and how we build it. Early enough to shape fundamental architecture. Late enough that customers depend on what you ship.

Right now we're hiring across two areas of the engineering team:

Product

You'll ship features end-to-end and build the experiences our customers use every day.

  • AI-powered approval workflows. Enterprise deals need approval chains, but rigid workflows break when every company has different rules. You'll build flexible routing that customers configure in natural language - "require VP approval for deals over $100k with annual terms" - and turn that into deterministic, auditable business logic.

  • An intelligent collections agent. Chasing late payments is tedious, manual work. We're building an agent you instruct in natural language (“send a reminder at 7 days overdue; escalate at 14 days”), which then runs the entire workflow autonomously.

  • Scaling billing infrastructure 10x. We’re building revenue-critical infrastructure and currently rearchitecting our billing pipeline for an order of magnitude more throughput - rethinking storage strategies, horizontal scalability, and how we’ll handle 10x load without 10x cost.

You'll design systems that process high-velocity event streams, make technical decisions that balance cost and performance at scale, and build infrastructure that never compromises on reliability. This is business-critical infrastructure: a dropped event means someone isn’t charged correctly. An outage at month-end means finance teams can't collect revenue from their customers.

Platform

As a part of the platform team you'll own revenue-critical infrastructure - the kind where correctness isn't negotiable and downtime isn't an option. Our usage events platform processes every merchant action that determines how their customers get billed, making it one of the most critical systems we run. You'll work on the evolution of this platform to handle exponential growth while maintaining perfect accuracy.

Core responsibilities include:

  • Own revenue-critical event infrastructure. You'll work on systems that process customer usage data on which billing and invoicing depend. Design event streaming pipelines that handle high throughput with low latency. Build robust systems where data accuracy is non-negotiable and uptime is measured in nines.

  • Design scalable data systems. You'll work with event streaming architectures, building sophisticated ingestion pipelines and query optimization strategies. Our event volumes grow with every new customer, so you'll architect systems that scale efficiently while keeping costs reasonable.

  • Shape our backend architecture. You'll tackle our most complex technical challenges and set the standards for how we solve them. Our services run on Kotlin with Spring Boot, and you'll have significant influence over architectural patterns and how we approach infrastructure problems.

  • Build for the next phase of growth. You'll design systems that work beautifully today and scale to 10x the load tomorrow. This means thinking about data storage strategies, horizontal scalability, and how your architectural decisions affect performance as volume increases.

  • Drive impact on a small team. We've built an engineering culture around collaboration, learning, and shipping. You'll have significant influence on what we build, how we build it, and how we work together.

You should apply if

You're a builder who wants to solve problems end-to-end:

  • You've shipped production backend systems and care about the difference between "it works" and "it's reliable"

  • You care about customers - you want to understand why you're building something, not just what

  • You’re comfortable with ambiguity. You thrive in early ideation stages, share work-in-progress to gather feedback, and adapt easily based on input

  • You communicate clearly. Thoughtful communication is a superpower that sharpens how we collaborate and build

  • You're interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software

Nice to have: Deep relational database expertise. We do a lot of complex queries and care about performance.

This might not be right if

We're a small team moving fast on hard problems. That might not be a fit if you:

  • Enjoy larger organization structures and staying only within your area of expertise. Taking ownership here means doing whatever the problem needs

  • Want a traditional engineering team set up, with a predictable roadmap and clearly scoped out tickets provided for you

  • Prefer a slower pace. Customers are depending on what we ship

  • Aren't comfortable with production responsibility. We're revenue-critical infrastructure - on-call matters here

Some other cool stuff!

What our newest hires have shipped

  • Watchtower: our command center for AI agents. As we introduce agents that automate financial workflows, customers need visibility and control. This included building our first agent - a contract intake system that extracts customer and pricing information from uploaded or emailed contracts, taking customers from signed contract to automated billing in minutes.

  • A fully integrated e-signature experience for quotes. When a customer is closing a deal, friction kills momentum. We rebuilt the signing experience - including embedded authentication and branded emails - into a seamless signing experience used by teams at the top tech companies every day.

  • Role-based access controls across the product. Different companies have different structures, but they all need tight control over who can approve deals or access sensitive data. This meant designing a flexible RBAC model that handles resources across every API endpoint and UI surface.

See more of what we’ve shipped in our public changelog [https://www.sequencehq.com/changelog].

Tech stack

We hire for ability, not a specific tech stack. Most of the team learned Kotlin here:

  • Backend: Kotlin (modular monolith using Http4k, Spring Boot, Exposed, Result4k)

  • Storage: Postgres, BigQuery

  • Async messaging: Google Cloud Pub/Sub

  • Infrastructure: Google Cloud, Terraform

  • Frontend: TypeScript, React

  • Monitoring: Google Cloud Monitoring, Sentry

  • Tools: GitHub, Slack, Notion, Linear

Interview process

We move fast - typically 1-2 weeks start to finish:

  1. Initial interview (30 mins)

  2. Technical interview (60 mins)

  3. Product interview (30 mins)

  4. System design interview (45 mins)

  5. Founder interview (30 mins)

We've also written a detailed blog post [https://www.sequencehq.com/blog/how-we-interview-engineers-at-sequence] about the interview process with tips about how to prepare.

as a backend, frontend, or full stack software engineer working on products
Salary
$180K - $230K
Equity
Competitive share options
Visa sponsorship available
Hybrid work policy
3 days hybrid in our NYC office. We encourage full office attendance for those who are keen, and have many team members who come into the office 5 days a week
Full-time position
Location
New York, London
Tech stack
React, TypeScript, Kotlin, Postgres, Google Cloud
About Sequence

If you join Sequence, you'll help build the platform that lets companies get paid - we’re already processing $1bn+ in annual invoice volume and growing fast.

We're building the AI-powered revenue platform for modern finance teams, replacing fragile spreadsheets and legacy systems with software their teams love using.


Cognition, incident.io, MoonPay, and 100+ other high-growth companies trust us to handle their entire revenue cycle across quoting, billing, and revenue recognition.


Founded by repeat entrepreneurs, we hit 10x ARR growth last year and just closed a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, alongside a16z and exceptional founders and CFOs from companies like Decagon, Klaviyo and Wise.

Team size

35 employees

Founded

2021

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Total funding

$40M

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About the team

The team behind Sequence has decades of experience building and operating category-defining SaaS, AI and fintech companies. Much of our founding team comes from companies such as Palantir, Wise, Plaid, and Auth0.


Riya Grover, CEO, previously founded Feedr, a digital ordering platform and payments software for restaurants which was acquired by Compass Group in 2020


We believe in creating an inclusive environment where everyone is given the autonomy and opportunity to own their development and play a defining in building a category leading product for the CFO suite. Our high performance culture is recognised through rapid career progression, our operating speed and the ownership afforded to new joiners from week 1. Our team is our strength, and we do not compromise on maintaining the quality bar as we scale.


We believe transparency is key to success, which is why we made it a core part of our DNA. Here you can find our open-source employee guide, to give you a true glimpse into how we work at Sequence.

Tech stack
React, TypeScript, Kotlin, Postgres, Google Cloud
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