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Staff Software Engineer

Chargebee · Posted Nov 5

Subscription management, recurring billing, and revenue growth infrastructure services

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaFull-timeRemote · India-wideLead/Staff10+ years₹70.0L–₹1.0Cr yearly<25 applicants
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About the role

Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue management platform serving SaaS and subscription-first businesses globally. The engineering team builds software to enable customers to grow revenues through its subscription management platform. This Staff Engineer (Architect) role will define the architecture for scalable, multi-tenant AI automation systems and guide AI-first engineering across product, engineering, and security.

What you will do

  • Architect scalable agent platforms : Define the end-to-end architecture for our AI automation stack with multi-tenancy, resilience, and extensibility.
  • Build AI agent capabilities : Lead architecture for MCP integration, tool orchestration, memory management, evaluation frameworks, RAG setup, async workflows, and streaming pipelines.
  • Prototype & guide AI-first engineering : Deliver proof-of-concepts, mentor developers, and promote best practices in agent orchestration and GenAI frameworks.
  • System governance & frameworks : Build reusable APIs, modular components, and guardrails to standardize and accelerate agent deployment.
  • AI lifecycle & governance : Own deployment pipelines, observability, model retraining schedules, drift detection, and production resilience.
  • Ethical & secure AI design : Partner with security and risk teams to ensure safe, explainable, and bias-aware agent behavior.
  • Cross-functional leadership : Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Security to balance customer needs, compliance, and technical trade-offs.

Skills used in this role

What the employer is looking for

  • Experience : 10+ years in software engineering with at least 5 years in technical leadership or architect roles within SaaS / enterprise platforms.
  • Domain Knowledge : Strong understanding of distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, and cloud-native platforms (AWS).
  • AI & Technical Depth : Strong expertise in Python and JavaScript for GenAI frameworks, specifically LLM orchestration, RAG workflows, agent frameworks, evaluation pipelines, async processing, and streaming. Solid foundation in object-oriented design, relational databases, and vector store technologies. Java knowledge is a helpful bonus.
  • Scalability Mindset : Proven track record of architecting and scaling enterprise SaaS systems.
  • Leadership Skills : Demonstrated success in influencing architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and fostering innovation.
  • You’re passionate about AI-powered automation and curious about how agentic approaches can transform enterprise workflows.
  • You can balance pragmatism with vision —delivering incremental value today while laying the foundation for future scale.
  • You thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments and can rally teams around complex technical missions.
  • You’re not just an architect—you’re a builder, a mentor, and a thought leader.

Benefits and support

  • Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting

About Chargebee

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Chargebee is a subscription management and recurring billing platform that automates revenue operations, invoicing, payments, and compliance for high-growth businesses. Its platform helps enterprises manage complex subscription lifecycles, usage-based pricing, and global tax configurations. Trusted by thousands of global innovators, Chargebee streamlines financial workflows from early-stage operations to multi-year enterprise contracts.

Industry
SaaS
Company size
1000-5000 employees
Founded
2011
Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Funding stage
Series H

Funding

Series H · $475M raised

Tiger Global ManagementInsight PartnersAccelSequoia CapitalSteadview CapitalFelicis Ventures
  • 2024-03-08Series H$5M
  • 2022-02-01Series H$250M
  • 2021-04-01Series G$125M
  • 2020-10-01Series F$55M
  • 2019-08-01Series D$14M
  • 2018-03-01Series C$18M

Leadership

KS
Krish Subramanian

CEO & Co-Founder

RS
Rajaraman Santhanam

CPO & Co-Founder

SK
Saravanan KP

CTO & Co-Founder

MB
Mike Beach

Chief Financial Officer

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