Staff Software Engineer, Metropolis
Revenue Platform
$220-250k
4+ days a week in office
Autonomous commerce platform for urban mobility
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Autonomous commerce platform for urban mobility
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-250k
4+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To disrupt traditional city infrastructure to empower the future of urban mobility.
Role
Who you are
- You are a systems thinker who enjoys understanding how things work and building the roadmaps that improve a platform while it runs
- 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience with a focus on building revenue systems like payment platforms
- Strong systems thinking for financial correctness with proven ability to design distributed revenue systems that handle edge cases gracefully: partial failures, duplicate requests, timing issues, currency conversion, tax calculation, and maintaining transaction integrity across service boundaries
- Database and financial data expertise, including transaction isolation, audit logging, point-in-time recovery, handling financial data migrations, and experience with systems that require both high availability and absolute correctness
- Payment gateway and integration experience with production knowledge of Stripe, PayPal, or similar processors; tax calculation services; accounting system integrations; and the operational reality of depending on external financial services, including compliance requirements like PCI-DSS
- Excellent technical communication with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams (particularly finance, accounting, and data teams), document complex systems, conduct post-mortems, and establish reliability standards organization-wide
- Experience with sophisticated usage of rapidly developing AI-assisted development skills in real-world codebases, including fluent use of Claude Code/GPT Codex/Windsurf or similar tools in multi-agent mode, spec-driven development (SDD), MCP/skills optimization, context/prompt engineering
- Local to New York City, Seattle, or the Los Angeles area
Desirable
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a relevant engineering discipline
- Expert-level revenue systems engineering with hands-on experience building billing platforms, payment processing pipelines, reconciliation systems, and handling challenges like idempotent transactions, failed payment retries, proration logic, multi-currency support, and revenue recognition – you've seen these problems before and know the patterns that work
- Expert revenue systems engineering with hands-on experience building billing platforms, payment processing, reconciliation, and managing complex challenges like idempotent transactions, payment retries, proration, multi-currency support, and revenue recognition
- Financial systems expertise with deep experience implementing audit trails, reconciliation workflows, revenue reporting, and compliance controls at scale – you understand what it takes to maintain penny-perfect accuracy
- Java expertise with a deep understanding of JVM performance, concurrency, and operational characteristics. Scala experience is a big plus
- Experience with AI-powered development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar agentic coding tools for enhanced productivity
What the job involves
- Metropolis is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Revenue Platform team
- In this role, you will own the technical direction for our billing, payments, and invoicing infrastructure, charting the course for a system that already processes tens of millions in monthly transactions
- You will balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural improvements, identifying high-impact enhancements and designing practical migration strategies to support our rapid growth
- As a technical leader, you will partner closely with engineering, finance, and operations teams to solve complex challenges involving pricing rules, subscription billing, and enterprise invoicing
- Your work will directly shape how Metropolis monetizes its platform and expands into new verticals beyond parking, ensuring our financial systems remain resilient, compliant, and remarkably efficient
- Own the technical architecture and evolution of Metropolis's billing, payments, and invoicing systems, establishing standards for financial accuracy, transaction integrity, and compliance that ensure every dollar is correctly captured and accounted for
- Design and implement resilient payment processing with support for multiple payment gateways (Stripe, etc.), intelligent routing between processors, retry strategies for failed transactions, and graceful handling of partial failures to maximize payment success rates
- Build comprehensive monitoring and reporting for revenue operations, including payment success rates, billing accuracy metrics, reconciliation dashboards, failed transaction alerts, and audit trails that provide visibility from customer transactions to accounting close
- Partner with finance and operations teams on payment failures, billing disputes, refund workflows, and reconciliation issues – building tools and automation that reduce manual intervention and improve mean time to resolution for customer-impacting revenue issues
- Drive adoption of revenue system best practices across services, including idempotent payment processing, distributed transaction handling, compensation workflows for failures, audit logging, and testing strategies that ensure financial correctness
- Own integrations with external systems, including payment gateways, ERP, data analytics, etc., ensuring reliable data flow and maintaining compliance requirements across the revenue stack
Our take
Driven by computer vision and AI technology, Metropolis offers a seamless parking and checkout experience by turning cars into wallets. This eliminates the need for physical tickets and pay machines, allowing property owners to maximise the financial performance of their parking assets and offer a modern service to customers.
Metropolis aims to revolutionise parking by integrating future mobility solutions, such as autonomous vehicle deployment, charging stations, and eVTOL infrastructure. Its approach includes dynamic pricing to optimise revenue during demand surges.
Co-founded by Alex Israel, a former ParkMe founder, the company has expanded rapidly following several staggering fundraising rounds and partnerships with Premier Parking and Uber. The company's acquisition of SP Plus Corporation, funded by a $1.8 billion investment, positions it as a leader in AI-driven mobility solutions. As a pioneer in its category, Metropolis continues to push the boundaries of parking and mobility technology.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2025
$500m
SERIES D
Oct 2023
$1.1bn
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.8bn
Company benefits
- Equity options - We offer ownership opportunities through stock options
- Wellness benefits - A wellness program designed to support a variety of needs
- Health insurance - We subsidise high-quality health insurance coverage for full-time and hourly employees
- We subsidize high-quality health insurance coverage for full-time and hourly employees
- 401(k) match - Plan for your future with a 4% company match
- Parental leave - Receive support prior to, during leave, and as you transition back to work
- Time off - Unlimited PTO for salaried employees, and a generous PTO package for our hourly employees
- Paid holidays - We observe major holidays with company-wide closures, and double hourly rates for those who work
- Hybrid environment - Magic happens face to face, but we support a flexible working model
Company HQ
Downtown, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Alexander Israel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Vice President & General Manager at INRIX. Co-founder and former COO at ParkMe. BA in Business & Economics at University of Puget Sound.
Travis Kell
(Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer)Former Senior Vice President at Winton Group. Previously Director of Hedge Fund Solutions at BlackRock. BA in Business at University of Puget Sound.
Courtney Fukuda
(Co-Founder & Chief Integration Officer)Formerly hedge fund solutions group at BlackRock. Managed senior relationships with sovereign wealth fund, central banks and other major institutional investors. BA in Economics at Yale University.
Peter Fisher
(Co-Founder & CCO)Formerly growth equity Investor at Transamerica Investment Management, BA in Political Science at Boston College.
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