# Engineering Lead - Consumer Subscriptions

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $440,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

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## Description

## About the Role

As the Engineering Lead for Consumer Subscriptions (X Premium & SuperGrok), you will own the entire billing and monetization infrastructure powering one of X's fastest-growing revenue organizations.

## Responsibilities

- Own the complete billing infrastructure for consumer subscriptions end-to-end, ensuring world-class reliability, security, and scalability.

- Design and build sophisticated promotional offer infrastructure and internal tools to supercharge the revenue organization.

- Develop comprehensive communications systems enabling intelligent push, email, and in-app messaging that drive engagement and conversions.

- Implement market-specific billing methods and compliance solutions to accelerate global expansion.

- Architect compelling product bundles across the X ecosystem tailored to different markets and consumer needs.

- Build intelligent models and systems that serve the right messages, offers, and information to users at the optimal time.

- Recruit, build, and lead a high-performing Consumer Subscriptions engineering team.

- Hands-on ownership and development of key features for X Premium and SuperGrok products.

## Basic Qualifications

- Exceptional software engineering background with deep experience building large-scale, high-stakes systems (billing, payments, or transactional platforms preferred).

- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence or directly manage engineering teams.

- Strong track record delivering complex backend systems for consumer applications at scale.

- Passion for revenue-generating products and creating exceptional user experiences.

## Preferred Skills and Experience

- 5+ years of experience working on large-scale consumer applications, ideally in monetization, subscriptions, or fintech.

- Experience leading engineering efforts in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

- Expertise in distributed systems, global payments infrastructure, personalization engines, or A/B testing frameworks.

- Proficiency with high-performance languages and tools such as Go, Python, Java, Rust, or similar.

## Compensation and Benefits

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- large-scale systems
- billing
- payments
- transactional platforms
- backend systems
- consumer applications

### Nice to have
- distributed systems
- global payments infrastructure
- personalization engines
- A/B testing frameworks
- Go
- Python
- Java
- Rust

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