Senior Backend (Chennai)

Senior Backend (Chennai)

15 Oct
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Axel Partners
|
Chennai

15 Oct

Axel Partners

Chennai

We are a profitable, rapid-growing technology company with customers worldwide. We are rebuilding our billing and subscription systems and need a senior backend engineer to lead the work. You will build the new platform, move the live business onto it safely, and report directly to the CTO.

What You Will Do

- Build a billing and entitlement ledger on Postgres

- Manage the full subscription lifecycle (renewals, upgrades, proration, cancellation) across Stripe and Razorpay

- Build reliable webhook pipelines and daily reconciliation

- Handle refunds, disputes and credits accurately

- Provide clean data for accounting, reporting and analytics

- Own the checkout and account management screens (TypeScript/React)

- Migrate the live business from the legacy system in phases

What You Bring

- 6+ years of backend engineering, with strong hands-on Golang

- Strong relational data modelling and SQL skills

- Experience in fintech or payments: gateway integration, webhooks, subscriptions, refunds and disputes

- Knowledge of reconciliation, revenue recognition, tax (GST/IGST) and ledger design

- Experience with a B2B product that has billing complexity (metering, plans, multi-tenant)

- Comfort working in TypeScript/React

- Clear written and verbal communication

- Ability to work from the Chennai office

Nice to Have

- Trading or capital markets exposure

- Multi-currency billing experience

- Experience migrating a legacy system while live

Benefits

- Salary of ₹30,00,000 - ₹40,00,000 a year

- Ownership of a business-critical platform

- Direct work with the CTO and leadership

Pay: ₹3,000,000.00 - ₹4,000,000.00 per year

Application Question(s)

- How many years of experience do you have in backend engineering? (Please specify your total years of experience and backend technologies used)

- How many years of experience do you have working with Go (Golang)? (Please specify your Go experience and key projects)





- How many years of experience do you have designing relational database schemas that stay correct under concurrency and scale? (Please specify your data modeling experience, databases used, and any large-scale or high-concurrency systems)

- How many years of experience do you have building payment, subscription, or billing systems? (Please specify your experience with payment gateway integration such as Stripe or Razorpay, idempotent webhooks, renewals, proration, upgrades, cancellation, dunning, refunds, or disputes)

- How many years of experience do you have working with money systems such as reconciliation, revenue recognition, tax (GST/IGST, ASC 606 or equivalent), financial reporting, or event-sourced/append-only ledger design? (Please specify your domain experience)

- How many years of experience do you have working on B2B products with real billing complexity, such as metering, plans/add-ons, multi-tenant, or partner billing? (Please provide examples)

- How many years of experience do you have using SQL to investigate financial or transactional data, such as tracing discrepancies or reconciling records? (Please share an example of a data issue you diagnosed using SQL)

- How many years of experience do you have working with TypeScript/React to build customer-facing surfaces such as checkout or account management? (Please specify your experience and any billing-related UI you have shipped)

- e you willing to work in-person from the Chennai office? (Please specify your current location and availability/relocation timeline)

- Please briefly describe a complex technical or financial problem you solved and how you explained it to non-technical stakeholders such as Finance or leadership. (Please keep your answer clear and concise)

- What is your notice period or earliest possible joining date? (Please specify your availability)

- What is your current annual compensation? (Please specify your current CTC/salary and currency)

- What is your expected annual compensation? (Please specify your expected CTC/salary and currency)

- Are you available for a Zoom interview? (Please specify your availability and preferred time slots)

Work Location: In person

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