Billing automation platform for professional services and agencies
Ignition operates a billing and recurring-revenue platform for firms and agencies, built on a mature polyglot stack (Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Kubernetes). The hiring mix reveals a sharp tilt toward marketing and leadership roles (15 marketing, 8 director-level positions) while engineering remains lean at 5 headcount—a pattern consistent with a product-market-fit business in scaling mode, not platform buildout. Active projects center on demand generation, ABM, and paid media optimization, matching the revenue-expansion pain points dominating their backlog.
Notable leadership hires: Growth Marketing Director, Finance Director
Ignition is a recurring-revenue and billing-automation platform founded in 2013, headquartered in Sydney and operating across Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Philippines, the US, and the UK. The product consolidates proposals, invoicing, payments, and workflow automation for professional-services firms and agencies. The platform serves 8,500+ customers who collectively manage relationships with 2.4 million end clients and have generated $13 billion in revenue through Ignition's infrastructure. The company operates at 51–200 headcount and maintains a sales-and-marketing-led growth posture alongside engineering infrastructure scaled to support a mature, billing-critical product.
Backend: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis. Frontend: React, TypeScript, Chakra UI. Data: Snowflake, dbt, Segment, Amplitude, Looker, Hightouch. Testing: Jest, Cypress, RSpec, Minitest. Integrations: HubSpot, Xero, QuickBooks Online, GitHub.
8,500+ businesses use the platform. Collectively, those customers manage 2.4 million client relationships and have earned $13 billion in revenue via Ignition.
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