Staff Technical Lead – Billing Revenue Management

TELUS

Senior Engineer responsible for reimagining the billing systems lifecycle at TELUS. Leading hands-on engineering practices and mentoring teams across multiple projects.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeBurnaby • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$109,000 - CA$202,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

BigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Hands-on billing engineering
Design, build, and operate systems across the billing lifecycle: charge calculation, invoice generation, account management, network mediation, usage charging, and payment processing
Decompose and modernize application components into maintainable, internally-owned services
Ensure accuracy, auditability, and reconciliation across billing workflows
Debug and resolve complex cross-system issues in production
Operate with ownership: stay close to the code, monitor system health, and respond to production issues
Use AI development tools daily as part of your coding workflow
Mentor junior or mid-level engineers on the team
Own integration quality between upstream charging and mediation systems that feed the billing pipeline

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years hands-on engineering with production ownership of complex, high-volume systems
Strong foundation in distributed systems: eventual consistency, event-driven architecture, high-availability design
Experience with billing, financial, or revenue systems is a strong asset
Cloud-native fluency on GCP (Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud SQL) and IaC/DevOps practices
Ability to explain complex concepts clearly and help engineers develop both technical depth and ownership mindset
Experience mentoring junior or mid-level engineers
Hands-on engineer who stays close to the code and the systems you own
Comfortable learning new domains quickly; billing may be new to you, but you pick up complex systems rapidly
Open to experimenting with AI development tools; comfortable integrating them into your workflow

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive total rewards package highlighting competitive salary and bonus structures
Minimum 3 weeks of vacation
Flexible benefits plan to meet the needs of you and your family
Generous company matched pension and share purchase programs
Opportunity to give back to communities in which we work, live and serve
Career growth and learning & development opportunities to develop your skills

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Hard Skills & Tools

billing engineeringcharge calculationinvoice generationaccount managementnetwork mediationusage chargingpayment processingdistributed systemsevent-driven architecturecloud-native

Soft Skills

mentoringownership mindsetclear communicationproblem-solvingadaptability