Senior 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.

About the Team

You’ll join the Revenue Story Modules team, a cross-functional group of engineers, product managers, and designers based primarily in India and collaborating with global stakeholders. The team builds reporting, insights, and revenue intelligence capabilities that help customers understand and operationalize their subscription revenue performance. We work closely with Platform, Billing, Support, and GTM teams to deliver scalable solutions with strong correctness guarantees, performance, and reliability.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own and deliver key product capabilities for our Revenue Story Modules. You’ll work end-to-end—from design to rollout—while partnering closely with Product and Engineering peers to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems. You will play a key role in improving code quality, performance, and operational excellence, and support junior engineers through mentorship and reviews.

What you’ll do

• Own the design, implementation, testing, and rollout of product features end-to-end.
• Build and maintain backend services with strong reliability, performance, and security standards.
• Write and optimize complex SQL queries, improve data correctness, and enhance performance for reporting/data workflows.
• Drive code quality through code reviews, testing practices, and refactoring initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams to translate customer needs into robust technical solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team-wide engineering best practices.

What you’ll bring (required skills and experience)

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of software development experience delivering high-quality, scalable systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Core Java.
• Strong hands-on experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL, SQL, and familiarity with NoSQL.
• Experience writing complex SQL queries and optimizing performance (query plans, indexes, scalability).
• Experience with microservices architecture and cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Working knowledge / hands-on exposure to Javascript frameworks (React / Angular / Vue) is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams.

Nice to have (preferred)

• Experience designing/consuming RESTful APIs (added advantage).
• Experience with a query builder / query engine.
• Experience building reporting/analytics products or working in revenue/finance domains.
• Experience mentoring developers and leading technical initiatives within a team.
• Actively using AI tools for development workflows (coding copilots, etc.).