Job Description

About Chargebee:

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Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue management platform powering some of the fastest-growing brands around the world today, including Calendly, Hopin, Pret-a-Manger, Freshworks, Okta, Study.com and others. Thousands of SaaS and subscription-first businesses process over billions of dollars in revenue every year through the Chargebee platform.

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Headquartered in San Francisco, USA, our 500+ team members work remotely throughout the world, including India, the Netherlands, Paris, Spain, Australia, and the USA.

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Chargebee has raised over $480 million in capital and is funded by Accel, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Steadview Capital, and Sapphire Ventures. And we're on a mission to push the boundaries of subscription revenue operations. Not just ours, but every customer and prospective business on a recurring revenue model.

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Overview the role

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You'll lead engineering on Hosted Pages — the checkout, customer portal, and pricing surfaces where our customers' subscribers experience our platform firsthand. Like the rest of the team, you don't distinguish between frontend and backend: you're polyglot and pragmatic, fluent in CSS, TypeScript, Node, React, and Vue, with strong Java fundamentals and Spring Boot as a mandatory baseline — API design, thread management, async job execution, queues — applied to Chargebee's actual scale and reliability needs, not textbook cases. You reach for whatever technology solves the customer's problem best.

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You hold code quality as non-negotiable: clean, SOLID, testable systems built on strong interfaces and abstractions. That discipline matters more, not less, in an AI-assisted coding world — you set the bar for what "production-ready" means and hold the team to it. UX is where you obsess most: you recognize good patterns instantly and can trace exactly what's broken in a bad one, because you treat positive design as intentional and sweat the details others miss.

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Hands-on experience building UI and working with a design language system is a strong asset — understanding design fundamentals makes you a sharper partner to design, not just an implementer of their specs. You think and design in systems by default, but scope that instinct to what the problem needs — architecture here is justified by customer and business outcomes, efficiency, and non-functional requirements, never built because you can. Customer centricity, empathy, bias for action, and curiosity are the operating principles behind every decision you make.

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As a Lead, that scope extends beyond your own code: you decompose ambiguous, multi-component problems into shippable milestones, make significant refactors to legacy systems when warranted, teach code review as a discipline rather than a checkbox, and own the observability and reliability of what your team ships. You influence the roadmap rather than just executing it, and help grow the engineering organization itself — including through hiring.

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Location & Work Culture

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You'll be based out of Bangalore, working alongside the rest of the Hosted Pages engineering team, with collaborators and leaders in US time zones as well. Chargebee's work culture is hybrid: the team meets in the office three days a week,



with the remaining two days working from the office or wherever suits you.

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What You'll Do

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- Lead engineering across Hosted Pages' full stack — checkout, customer portal, and pricing/subscription-management surfaces — equally hands-on in TypeScript/React/Vue and Java/Spring Boot
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- Decompose ambiguous, multi-component problems spanning frontend, backend, and infra into shippable milestones, and drive them to completion
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- Design and own APIs, thread management, async job execution, and queue-based systems that hold up at Chargebee's scale, with a clear point of view on when solutions earn their complexity and when they don't
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- Set the bar for UX quality — spot bad patterns early, partner deeply with design and product, and put your design-system fluency to use catching issues before they reach engineering
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- Make significant refactors to legacy code when justified, and lead code review as a teaching discipline, not a gate
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- Own the observability, reliability, and maintainability of what your team ships — instrumentation, alerting, dashboards
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- Drive collaboration across teams that touch Hosted Pages, and take responsibility for fixes beyond your immediate module when dependencies demand it
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- Influence the roadmap for Hosted Pages, and grow the engineering organization through mentoring and active involvement in hiring
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What You Should Have

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Technical Leadership

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- Proven track record independently decomposing ambiguous, multi-component problems into shippable milestones
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- Experience leading code review as a teaching discipline, and mentoring engineers across frontend and backend
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- Sets the testing standard for the team — unit, functional, e2e, and performance tests — and pushes for code coverage that reflects real risk coverage, not just a number to hit
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- Track record of making significant, well-justified refactors to legacy systems
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- Comfort driving cross-team collaboration, particularly with teams touching billing, payments, and subscriptions
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- Leading cross-team architectural initiatives, influencing senior engineers and engineering leaders without relying on direct reporting authority.
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Technical Expertise

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- 7–10 years of experience, with a demonstrated ability to work fluidly across frontend and backend rather than specializing in one
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- Deep proficiency in CSS, TypeScript, React, Vue, and Node
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- Solid Java fundamentals with Spring Boot experience — mandatory — with expert-level comfort in API design, thread management, async job execution, and queue-based systems at scale
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- Ownership of observability, reliability, and maintainability practices — instrumentation, alerting, dashboards
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- Relational database expertise, including indexing strategy and query optimization at scale
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- Edge caching strategy for high-traffic, latency-sensitive surfaces
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- Ownership-level experience with server-side rendering and page-performance optimization — sub-second loads, strong Core Web Vitals (LCP, FCP, and similar)
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- Strong command of responsive UI design across devices
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- Deep familiarity with observability platforms (Sentry, Datadog, Splunk) — building the dashboards, trend monitoring, and alerting the rest of the team relies on (this backs the existing "own observability, reliability, and maintainability" bullet in What You'll Do)
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Product & UX Sense

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- A trained eye for UX — spots good patterns instantly and can trace exactly what's broken in bad ones
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- Hands-on experience building UI in Figma or working within a design language system is a strong plus
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- Treats good design as intentional and holds a high bar for detail across the team, not just personally
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AI-Assisted Engineering Practices

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- Uses AI tools strategically to accelerate delivery while maintaining rigor, and catches subtle errors in AI-generated code
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- Writes precise, consistent prompts and mentors others on effective AI-assisted workflows
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Nice to Have

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- Solid working knowledge of the billing & subscriptions domain
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- Experience with high-traffic checkout, payments, or subscription-management systems at scale
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- A point of view on where AI is heading in commerce — concepts like agentic checkout are a plus
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Why Join Our Engineering Team

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Build the checkout, customer portal, and current pricing surfaces that power revenue for 6,500+ businesses across 227 countries and territories

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- Work on a platform named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Recurring Billing Applications, placed furthest for Completeness of Vision
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- Hybrid work environment
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- Uncapped leave policy to give you the time to rest and recharge
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- We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
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If you're excited about building the surfaces where subscription businesses actually meet their customers — with an obsession for clean code, sharp UX, and quality that doesn't bend just because AI can write code fast — we'd love to talk.

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We value people from all backgrounds and are dedicated to hiring and building a diverse, inclusive workplace.

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Benefits

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Want to know what it means to work for a company that genuinely cares about you? Check out just a few of the benefits we give our employees:

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We are Globally Local

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With a diverse team across four continents, and customers in over 60 countries, you get to work closely with a global perspective right from your own neighborhood.

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We value Curiosity

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We believe the next great idea might just be around the corner. Perhaps it's that random thought you had ten minutes ago. We believe in creating an ecosystem that fosters a desire to seek out hard questions, and then figure out answers to them.

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Customer! Customer! Customer!

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Everything we do is driven towards enabling our customers' growth. This means no matter what you do, you will always be adding real value to a real business problem. It's a lot of responsibility, but also a lot of fun.

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Ready to build the future of recurring revenue at scale?

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Join the Chargebee tribe.

📌 Technical Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Chargebee
📍 Bengaluru