Full-Time

Senior Software Engineer

Posted on 9/15/2025

Zuora

Zuora

1,001-5,000 employees

SaaS platform for subscription lifecycle management

No salary listed

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Hybrid

Three days per week on-site in Chennai; hybrid work arrangement.

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Requirements
  • B.Tech/BE/BS Computer Engineering discipline or relevant degree
  • 8+ years of experience specializing in full-stack software development
  • Experience in software design patterns (E.g: solid principles)
  • Hands-on proficiency in any modern software development stacks such as Node, Java, Go, Python etc.
  • Working knowledge of modern web technologies including cloud-based APIs and protocols (REST, JSON)
  • Understanding of microservices frameworks (Spring Boot or Dropwizard)
  • Experience developing apps on a Platform as a Service with database and object modeling skills
  • Knowledge of Oracle, and PL/SQL will be an advantage
  • Excellent problem solving and communication skills
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with system design with a focus on scalable architecture
  • Awareness of the trade-offs in design and technology decisions to deliver value without compromising on simplicity or performance
  • Experience with Large Language Models and generative AI frameworks
Responsibilities
  • Design and develop highly flexible common components and APIs that enable product customizability and extensibility
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams like product management, user experience (UX), Implementation teams, and Product Marketing to solve roadblocks, conflicts, and ambiguity
  • Understand the needs of users and build products that are intuitive and easy to use
  • Write tests for your own code, develop and ship high-quality software

Zuora provides a software-as-a-service platform that helps businesses run subscription-based models. It covers the entire customer lifecycle from acquiring customers to billing, payments, and revenue reporting. The core products include Zuora Billing and Zuora RevPro, which automate and streamline order-to-cash processes, recurring revenue management, and revenue recognition. Unlike many generic ERP tools, Zuora combines billing, revenue recognition, and financial reporting for subscription businesses in one system, serving a wide range of customers from startups to Fortune 100 firms and across technology, media, and telecom. Its goal is to enable companies to adopt or optimize subscriptions, scale efficiently, and improve financial operations through automation and integrated analytics.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Redwood City, California

Founded

2007

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Silver Lake and GIC's April 2025 acquisition provides growth capital.
  • Partnerships with Workday, Nuvei, and Growfin expand revenue ecosystem.
  • Zuora Collections launch optimizes cash flow for subscription clients.

What critics are saying

  • Silver Lake cuts engineering talent, stalling AI innovation within 12 months.
  • Chargebee steals mid-market share via Salesforce integrations in 18 months.
  • Stripe Billing dominates AI startups' usage models in 6 months.

What makes Zuora unique

  • AI-Ready Monetization Catalog unifies pricing, packaging, and entitlements metadata.
  • Zuora Central automates full order-to-cash for enterprise subscription operators.
  • Feature-level monetization integrates entitlements without separate systems.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Performance Bonus

Company Equity

401(k) Company Match

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Professional Development Budget

Mental Health Support

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

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Subscription Insider
Nov 18th, 2025
Zuora Unveils AI-Ready Monetization Catalog, Introducing a Unified Architecture for Dynamic Pricing and Offer Design

Zuora unveils AI-Ready Monetization Catalog, introducing a unified architecture for dynamic pricing and offer design. The new catalog becomes a single source of truth for pricing, packaging, usage, and entitlements - marking one of Zuora's most significant architectural shifts in years. Zuora today unveiled its AI-Ready Monetization Catalog, a new architectural layer designed to unify how companies structure pricing, packaging, usage, and feature-level entitlements. While the announcement includes familiar capabilities such as dynamic pricing and bundles, the underlying shift is more consequential: Zuora is introducing a single metadata-driven foundation intended to replace the fragmented monetization logic that enterprises often distribute across storefronts, CPQ, billing, and revenue systems. This update marks one of Zuora's most significant monetization architecture enhancements since it introduced usage rating, reflecting how hybrid and AI-driven business models are reshaping the needs of enterprise subscription operators. What's actually new. 1. A unified Monetization Catalog that consolidates monetization logic across channels For many subscription companies, pricing, usage rules, entitlements, and revenue treatments live in separate systems - often with custom fields, manual workarounds, or inconsistent logic between sales and finance. The new Catalog acts as a single source of truth, pushing consistent rules into storefronts, CPQ, billing, and revenue recognition. This could materially reduce reconciliation issues and operational friction. 2. Attribute-driven dynamic pricing with far greater flexibility Zuora's prior dynamic pricing capabilities required considerable customization for enterprise deal structures. The new model allows unlimited customer and product attributes to drive pricing - such as region, contract configuration, usage volume, or business segment - representing a meaningful expansion beyond earlier offerings. 3. Feature-level monetization tied directly to entitlements The Catalog integrates entitlement logic and pricing logic in one layer, enabling companies to monetize at the feature level without building separate entitlement systems. This is increasingly necessary for SaaS, media, and API-based services that sell access to capabilities rather than static bundles. 4. A structured metadata foundation designed for future AI-based pricing and packaging While this release does not introduce standalone AI optimization tools, it establishes a semantic layer that makes pricing rules, entitlements, and usage attributes interpretable by LLMs and future AI copilots. This groundwork positions Zuora for AI-driven offer creation and optimization capabilities in later releases. 5. Unified logic across storefronts, CPQ, billing, and revenue systems Consistent rules across commercial and financial systems address a long-standing challenge for operators: different platforms interpreting pricing logic differently. This alignment is genuinely new and has practical implications for speed, accuracy, and revenue governance. What's not new. The announcement also includes capabilities many customers already recognize - usage-based billing, bundles, and general "faster time to market" messaging. These remain important contextually but are not new product innovations. Industry perspective. Enterprise users quoted in the announcement highlight long-standing bottlenecks. Tradeweb, for instance, noted that traditional systems often force companies to maintain "hundreds of custom fields" just to model real-world deals. MGI Research pointed to increased pressure on teams to launch new pricing and packaging without increasing operational strain. These observations underscore why a unified monetization layer is strategically relevant now, particularly as businesses shift to hybrid pricing, usage-based models, and AI-driven offerings. Insider take. Zuora's Monetization Catalog represents a meaningful architectural step forward. While some elements are repackaged, the introduction of a unified metadata-driven layer for pricing, usage, entitlements, and revenue logic is significant - especially for enterprise operators navigating complex or hybrid monetization models. This move also places Zuora among the small number of vendors attempting to solve monetization logic fragmentation as an architectural challenge rather than a series of standalone features. The shift aligns with broader trends toward attribute-based pricing, dynamic offer experimentation, and AI-driven monetization. For subscription executives, the practical opportunities include: * cleaner alignment between product, finance, engineering, and sales systems * reduced reliance on custom fields and manual reconciliation * faster offer iteration * better readiness for future AI-driven pricing tools In short: the Catalog isn't just a new SKU - it's a foundational step toward more flexible, scalable, and AI-compatible monetization architectures.

readmagazine.com
Aug 28th, 2025
Zuora and Workday Partners for Revenue Management and Financial Accuracy

Zuora, a leading monetization platform for modern business, announced an expanded partnership with Workday, integrating Zuora's order-to-cash automation with Workday Financial Management.

PaySpace Magazine
Aug 20th, 2025
Nuvei Partners With Zuora to Power Subscription Economy

The collaboration enables global enterprises to manage recurring revenue more efficiently by combining Zuora's monetization tools with Nuvei's global acquiring network, support for local payment methods, and real-time transaction optimization.

FF News
Aug 14th, 2025
Growfin Partners with Zuora to Transform Accounts Receivable for the Enterprise

Growfin, the AI-native accounts receivable (AR) automation leader, announced a strategic partnership with Zuora(R), a leading monetization platform for modern business.

MarTech360
May 21st, 2025
Zuora Launches Zuora Collections to Boost Cash Flow

Zuora launches Zuora Collections to boost cash flow.

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