Senior Backend Engineer - Payments & Fintech (India, Chennai)

GoCharting LLC; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

GoCharting in Chennai, India, seeks a senior backend engineer to own the canonical payments and entitlement ledger. You will design and implement an append-only ledger, manage subscription lifecycles across Stripe and Razorpay, and ensure accurate revenue reporting and tax handling.

You will collaborate with Finance and CTO, ship a reliable user billing surface, and migrate the live business safely from legacy models to the new system.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years backend engineering, strong Go and relational data modelling.

Responsibilities

• Build canonical billing and entitlement ledger (journals-as-truth).
• Own full subscription lifecycle across payment gateways (Stripe, Razorpay).
• Design gateway ingest pipelines with idempotent, replay-safe webhooks.
• Handle refunds, disputes, and settlements with correct accounting traces.
• Produce data views for accounting close, tax, and exchange reporting.
• Own user billing surface (checkout and cabinet) end-to-end.
• Migrate live business safely with parallel run and cutover plan.

Skills

Go

SQL

Ledger design

Payments systems

Tools

PostgreSQL

Stripe integration

Razorpay integration

Job description

About GoCharting

GoCharting is a web-native charting and trading workflow platform with institutional-grade orderflow and DOM tools — footprint/cluster charts, volume/market profile, cumulative delta, imbalance charts, DOM trading. We are the only platform that delivers these capabilities fully on the web. Comparable to TradingView for general charting, but differentiated as the leader in the professional orderflow niche. PE-acquired and funded in 2025, profitable, 3M+ registered traders globally, with a mandate to scale 10x over 4 years.

The Role

This is the most consequential backend role we are hiring this year. GoCharting runs a freemium subscription business across two payment gateways (Stripe and Razorpay), two legal entities (US and India), and multiple currencies — and the systems that move money, grant entitlements, and report revenue have grown organically to the point where they need to be rebuilt properly. Subscriptions and resubscriptions don't always renew cleanly, some captured payments never become entitlements, refunds and disputes aren't fully handled, and the data we need for exchange reporting, accounting close, and conversion/retention analysis has to be reconstructed by hand.

You will own the fix. Working from an existing target design — a journals-as-truth billing and entitlement ledger — you will build the canonical payments, subscription, entitlement, and user-billing platform from the ground up and migrate the live business onto it without dropping a rupee or a dollar. This is the financial heartbeat of the company: no payment is correct, no entitlement is granted, and no month closes cleanly without the system you build. You report to the CTO inside Core Platform Engineering and work in lockstep with Finance and the COO, who own the design and the accounting/reporting requirements.

In year one, success looks like: every captured payment producing exactly one ledger entry and the right entitlement; subscriptions and resubscriptions renewing, upgrading, and lapsing correctly across both gateways; refunds, disputes, and proration handled in code; and clean, trustworthy data flowing to accounting, exchange reporting, and the growth team — with the legacy account model retired behind the new one.

What you'll do

• Build the canonical billing & entitlement ledger — design and implement an append-only, journals-as-truth Postgres schema (orders, signed payments ledger, dated entitlement grants, gap-free per-entity invoice numbering) where all state is a derived view and every entitlement traces to a paid order line
• Own the full subscription lifecycle in code — purchase, renewal, resubscription, upgrade/downgrade/switch, proration, trials, cancellation, and lapse — across both Stripe and Razorpay, ending the renewal/resubscription bugs that lose money and entitlements today
• Build the gateway ingest pipeline — idempotent, replay-safe webhook handling for Stripe, Razorpay, and Apple notifications, normalized into the ledger with dead-letter handling and reconciliation that proves the gateway and our books agree every day
• Handle the hard money paths — refunds, chargebacks/disputes, credits, and partial/zero-amount settlements, with signed lines that allocate the gateway-charged amount correctly and never double-count
• Produce clean financial & entitlement data — the views that feed accounting close (revenue recognition, multi-entity GST/IGST and US tax, deferred revenue), exchange reporting (CME and Indian exchanges), and conversion/retention analytics
• Own the user billing surface end-to-end — the user cabinet and checkout (TypeScript/Astro/React) where customers buy, upgrade, manage, and cancel — so the experience and the ledger never disagree
• Migrate the live business safely — backfill historical payments with documented confidence tiers, run the new system in parallel against the legacy CouchDB account model, prove reconciliation is clean, then cut over read and write paths region by region

What we're looking for

Must-haves:

• 6–10 years backend engineering, with deep Go and strong relational data-modelling and SQL — you design schemas that stay correct under concurrency and scale
• You have built or rebuilt payments, subscriptions, and ledgers end-to-end — payment-gateway integration, idempotent webhooks, the subscription lifecycle (renewals, proration, upgrades, cancellation, dunning), and refunds and disputes — this is the core of the job, not an adjacent skill
• The full money-systems depth that surrounds a ledger is required, not optional: reconciliation (gateway books), revenue recognition and tax (e.g. GST/IGST, ASC 606 or equivalent), financial/exchange reporting, and event-sourced / append-only ledger design (journals-as-truth, derived state, signed entries)
• Experience building or owning a B2B product where billing and entitlement complexity is real (metering, plans/add-ons, multi-tenant or partner billing) — GoCharting also runs a /b2b and white-label surface
• SQL fluency to interrogate money data yourself — you can find the row that explains the discrepancy, not just file a ticket
• Comfortable in a TypeScript/React frontend to own the user cabinet and checkout end-to-end (you don't need to be a frontend specialist, but you ship the surface that touches your ledger)
• In-person in our Chennai office — this role works too closely with Finance, the CTO, and the live money flow to be remote

Nice-to-haves:

• Prior fintech or trading domain — genuinely good to have, but not required: billing correctness is domain-agnostic and the markets context is learnable on the job
• EU VAT/OSS, multi-entity, or multi-currency billing experience
• AWS Cognito / identity at scale, or prior work untangling a legacy data model during a live migration
• Experience standing up reconciliation, finance-close, or revenue-reporting pipelines that accountants actually trusted
• Top-tier Indian institution (IIT/NIT/IIM) — nice-to-have, not a gate

Logistics

Location Chennai, India — in-person (office-based)

Employment type Full-Time

Entity ProCharting Pvt Ltd (India)

Travel Minimal

Start date ASAP

Reports to Ragunath Ramaswamy, CTO (Core Platform Engineering)