Staff Software Engineer

About Chargebee

Chargebee is a leading provider of billing and monetization solutions, empowering businesses with recurring revenue models to streamline revenue and finance operations, capture actionable insights, and drive growth.

Chargebee is trusted by businesses of all sizes, including Zapier, LegalZoom, Lambda, Freshworks, DeepL, Condé Nast, and Pret a Manger, and is proud to have been consistently recognized by customers as a Leader in Subscription Management on G2.

With headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland, our team members are based primarily in India, the U.S., and Europe.

Job Summary

Chargebee is looking for an inspirational Staff Engineer for driving the next generation of its Platform team focused on building reliable, performant, resilient, scalable, and extensible systems. This team works with processing millions of requests per day, handling huge traffic, processing millions of events with high reliability. Additionally, this team builds the framework on top of which the rest of Chargebee operates.

This role requires a blend of strong technical expertise, exceptional system design skills, and a passion for leading and mentoring engineering teams. As a Staff Engineer, you will build and oversee the development and delivery of key product features, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful execution of innovative, customer-focused solutions. Your role will involve both architectural and thought leadership and hands-on technical contributions to ensure the team delivers scalable, high-quality products that meet business objectives.

Key Responsiblities

1. You will build software that enhances the Product and its capabilities. Platform solutions typically cut horizontally across all Chargebee's products. The solutions must serve multiple use cases, be extensible, and handle high scale.
2. You will work with product management and engineering teams to influence key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective engineering solutions.
3. You will be expected to bring thought leadership to advance the overall state of technology and customer focus for the entire engineering organization.
4. You will set the standards for excellence in your team and osmotically influence the company.
5. Lead by example through hands-on coding when necessary, and inspire your team with your technical expertise.
6. Directly responsible for the career advancement of the engineers at various stages of their career growth.
7. Solid experience in building and maintaining B2C and B2B enterprise grade distributed backend systems.
8. Strong knowledge of Java and allied technologies, Distributed Systems that operate at high scale, queuing systems like Kafka, OLTP databases.
9. Monitoring and alerts at enterprise scale level. Comfortable with technology stacks in the area be they the Open Source, Cloud Native, or proprietary.
10. Experience with building global scale cloud-native systems and modern tech stack, RESTful APIs, Kafka and container-based applications.
11. Experience supporting production systems and a proven track record of identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks for production systems.
12. Ability to identify problems with requirements, identify alternatives, and help your team navigate through these issues
13. You're passionate about AI-powered automation, curious about how agentic approaches can transform enterprise workflows, and have an educator's zeal to transmit your learnings
14. You can balance pragmatism with vision delivering incremental value today while laying the foundation for future scale
15. You thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments and can rally teams around complex technical missions.

Must haves

• 12+ years of proven experience in designing enterprise scale SaaS platforms
• Hands-on engineer who can lead with example
• Demonstrated success building culture of innovation, ownership, accountability, and customer focus
• Good communication and presentation skills with ability to interact with different cross-functional teams of varying levels
• Experience in building and scaling microservices
• Expected to be a role model for young engineers, have a strong sense of quality in both coding and software engineering and enforce this within the team