Engineering Manager, Orb
Real Time Analytics
$230-350k
Offers equity
Purpose-built platform for flexible pricing models
Be an early applicant
Purpose-built platform for flexible pricing models
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$230-350k
Offers equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide every business with the infrastructure to unlock their revenue.
Role
Who you are
- You have 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with 2+ years as an engineering manager or tech lead manager equivalent
- You have a track record of growing engineers and holding a high bar for technical excellence
- You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and enjoy establishing a team's foundations: bringing clarity, structure, and execution rigor to a high-leverage, still-forming domain
- You have a deep technical understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and system architecture, ideally with exposure to real-time or low-latency systems
- You partner naturally with Product and Design, and you advocate for the customer's perspective, not just the technical constraints of the system
What the job involves
- As the engineering manager for the Entitlements & Spend Platform team, you'll lead the engineers building the runtime layer between Orb's billing engine and the workflows customers build on top of it: alerting, spend controls, entitlement checks, and usage analytics
- This is where billing state becomes something customers can act on in real time: knowing what's been consumed, what's allowed, and what should happen next, both as reactive alerts the moment a limit is crossed and as live, on-demand reads of balance and entitlement state
- Because it's computed against Orb's actual pricing, credits, and commits, customers can put it directly in the critical path of their own spend and access decisions
- This is a foundational team. You'll set its technical direction, shape its roadmap alongside your product and design partners, and define the interfaces the rest of Orb builds against
- The work sits squarely at the intersection of infrastructure and product: real systems engineering where correctness and latency are non-negotiable, paired with a customer-facing surface where API design and getting the primitives right matter just as much
- Own the success and growth of the engineers on your team — run regular 1:1s, give consistent and actionable feedback, tailor projects to each person's development, and onboard new engineers with the technical and product context they need
- Hold the bar on technical decisions, reviewing architecture and design docs and critical code with an eye to long-term maintainability; proactively manage technical debt and keep defect rates low while balancing speed and quality
- Advocate for developer experience and a high standard of API design across the team's surface
- Drive scoping, costing, and estimation, and own the accuracy of those estimates; set clear expectations, manage cross-functional communication, and escalate risks early so the team delivers on time
- Lead high-quality QA, with particular attention to the correctness and completeness this domain demands. Customers trust these numbers
- Cultivate a collaborative, inclusive team culture, bringing PM into architectural discussions early so user and business implications surface before code does, and resolving the interpersonal or systemic issues that get in the team's way
- Partner closely with Product and Design and contribute directly to product discovery and strategy, making sure engineering insight shapes the roadmap, and that the decisions you advocate for represent the customer's perspective, not just the system's constraints
- At Orb, we believe great engineers can learn any stack, so you do not need experience with these specific tools, and we encourage you to apply regardless
- Frontend: Typescript + React + Tailwind CSS
- Backend: Python
- Datastores: PostgreSQL + Apache Druid+ Clickhouse
- Streaming Platforms: Kafka + Spark Streaming
- Cloud Platform: AWS
Our take
Orb founders Morales and Grover worked together as engineering leaders at Asana for five years. During their time at the company, they witnessed a plethora of changes to pricing and packaging. The major changes were a burden not only for the financing team but for the engineers themselves.
Realising they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products are billed and monetised, the pair developed Orb. It's a cloud-based software platform helping businesses create and manage pricing models, with a specific focus on helping businesses that are seeking flexible pricing options for their customers, such as subscription-based services or pay-as-you-go models.
Orb is backed by a number of investment organisations as well as founders and executives at the forefront of enterprise software. It expanded its team in 2023 and, in 2024, enjoyed $24 million in funding to accelerate its mission. With an acquisition by leading global payments platform Adyen in the works, it's now well-equipped to fulfil its vision of leveraging software so companies can be at their most effective.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$25m
SERIES B
Mar 2023
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $44m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance - 100% coverage for you and dependents
- Dental, vision, and life insurance
- Unlimited PTO, with 15 days minimum encouraged
- 401k plan
- 16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting
- Commuter stipend
- Catered lunches in the office
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alvaro Morales
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Asana. Graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Master in Computer Science.
Kshitij Grover
(Co-Founder)Began their career as a Software Engineer Intern at Apple and Facebook before becoming a Software Engineer at Asana.
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