Java Developer

About Impact Analytics

Impact Analytics is an agentic-first AI software company transforming retail merchandising through cutting-edge AI, LLMs, and Generative AI technologies. As a fast-growing Series D company with deployments across five continents, it is building both industry-leading merchandising solutions and foundational AI agents that are redefining how retail decisions are made. What makes Impact Analytics unique is its combination of deep retail domain expertise, strong innovation culture, and global presence. It is one of the few India-born AI companies recognized globally by organizations like Fortune, Gartner, and the Inc. 5000.For candidates looking to work on next-generation AI products with global scale and real-world impact, Impact Analytics is an exciting place to build your career. Here’s a link to our website: www.impactanalytics.co.

The impact that you will be making

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design and build scalable backend systems that power Android-first mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering expertise, experience supporting mobile applications, and a passion for building high-performance, reliable distributed systems that operate efficiently under constrained network conditions.

You will work closely with Android developers and cross-functional teams to build APIs and backend services that enable seamless mobile experiences, including offline synchronization, scalability, and high availability

What lands you in this role

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and RESTful APIs for Android/mobile applications.
• Build backend systems optimized for Android-first applications with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Develop APIs that perform efficiently in low-bandwidth and intermittent network environments.
• Design and implement backend workflows that support offline synchronization, conflict resolution, and data consistency.
• Develop secure, resilient, and highly available microservices.
• Optimize application performance through efficient database design, caching strategies, and API optimization.
• Collaborate closely with Android engineers, Product Managers, QA, and DevOps teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical design decisions.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and code quality.

Required Skills

• 4–7 years of professional experience in backend software development.
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin for backend development.
• Experience building backend systems supporting Android/mobile applications.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Gradle (Kotlin DSL/KTS) for build automation and dependency management.
• Familiarity with Android Studio for debugging, API integration, and collaboration with Android teams.
• Experience with modern backend frameworks and scalable application architecture.
• Knowledge of relational and/or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar.
• Experience with caching technologies (Redis) and messaging/event streaming platforms (Kafka or RabbitMQ).
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Proficiency with GitHub and modern Git-based development workflows.
• Experience using Visual Studio Code (VS Code).
• Familiarity with AI-powered developer tools such as Cursor, Windsurf, or similar Agentic IDEs.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud-native application development.
• Excellent debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

What we offer

• An opportunity to be part of some of the best enterprise SaaS products to be built out of India.
• Opportunities to quench your thirst for problem-solving, experimenting, learning, and implementing innovative solutions.
• A flat, collegial work environment, with a work hard, play hard attitude.
• A platform for rapid growth if you are willing to try new things without fear of failure.
• Remuneration with best-in-class industry standards with generous health insurance cover

Some of our accolades include:

• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.
• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.
• Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software LeaderBoard 2024 report.
• Ranked #72 in America’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023—by Fortune—alongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.
• Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting-edge generative AI tools.
• Recognized in multiple Gartner reports, including Market Guides and Hype Cycle, spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, and Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications.

· 5+ years of experience in software development using Java.

· Proficiency in Spring Boot and Spring Batch.

· Experience with microservices architecture.

· Hands-on experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL databases.

· Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).

· Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.

· Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins etc

· Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

· Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Important consideration:

· Core Java - 4 to 6 Yrs

· Spring and Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security - 4 to 6 Yrs

· DevOps (Jenkins, Junit, sonarQube, Maven) - 1 to 2 Yrs

· MongoDB, NOSql, Couch DB, Cassandra - 1 to 2 Yrs

Job Overview:

We are looking for Tech Lead to join our Engineering team and lead all stages of the software product development life cycle. This will include analyzing system and user requirements, designing software flowcharts, writing clean Java code, troubleshooting bugs, and running tests to improve system functionality. If you are a person who has proficiency in Java technologies, good analytical skills, the ability to design software systems and anticipate issues, and frame remedial actions with excellent teamwork skills; We would like to speak to you

Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, scale, and maintain backend services in Java
2. Collaborate with the engineering and product team to discuss project definitions and goals.
3. Work on individual priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
4. Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and security of the backend systems.
5. Write simple, efficient, and maintainable code
6. Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
7. Ensuring best coding standards and practices to improve and maintain quality.

Requirements:

8. Bachelor/Master degree in CS or related field from a reputed college
9. Sound knowledge of Java technologies.
10. Solid grip on the programming basics like DS and algorithms, OOPS.
11. Experience with software design and application programming
12. Understanding & experience with software design patterns, restful APIs, and microservice architecture
13. Experience with software design and application programming
14. Strong debugging skills
15. Exposure to CI/CD and Test-Driven Development
16. Nice to have are Unix / Linux, database SQl / NoSQL, Java Spring, working knowledge on scripting (Perl, Shell Scripting).

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

Who are we?  

Whatfix is the #1 Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) for Enterprises. We are disrupting the way Learning, Training and Application Support content is consumed. We provide large enterprises with a SaaS platform that helps accelerate product adoption and reduce support & training efforts by providing contextual and step by step guidance inside any web application at the exact time a task is being performed. The product has redefined the way companies onboard, train, and provide support to users. 

What sets us apart from the rest?

With over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies already onboard as customers, Whatfix has been named among the top 20 B2B tech companies alongside the likes of Adobe, PayPal, and Cisco.

With a YoY growth of 300%, we have also been recognized among the top 50 fastest growing SaaS companies worldwide in the SaaS 1000 list and as a Market Leader by Gartner in the Digital Adoption space. 

We are pleased to have an Employee rating of 4.6 on Glassdoor and our Customer obsession can be seen in our reviews on platforms like G2 Crowd & Gartner Peer Insights.

The employees are happy, the customers are happy, but what about the investors? Take a look for yourself - Sequoia Capital || Stellaris || Cisco || Eight Roads || Helion Ventures

“Hustle Mode ON” is something we live by.

Our Team:

The Engineering team at Whatfix provides end to end engineering throughput that forms part of core platforms and services that drive Whatfix business.

Our team is responsible for creating the Customer Platform and everything around it be it Analytics, Infrastructure or Core Algorithms. The team owns and is responsible for all pieces that we design, build and support end to end for Whatfix product/ business.

 Your Opportunity:

As part of the Core Engineering Team @Whatfix, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by being a part of the development team that builds future forward products. At Whatfix it’s all about scale. One of the key attributes of this job is that you are required to continuously innovate and apply technology to provide business 360 views of Whatfix customers.

 Your Responsibility:

1. Define architecture blueprints & take complete technical ownership of high-level design, tech stack, non-functional attributes of one or more components of various platforms
2. Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide
3. Work closely with other architects in the team and ensure architectural consistency and technical excellence of the products and platforms
4. Work with engineering teams in building high-quality and highly resilient scalable products and platforms at Whatfix
5. Work with cross-functional teams to address all technical dependencies
6. Drive some of the company-wide tech initiatives striving towards continuous technical excellence of our platforms
7. Actively participate in technical innovations, external presentations, technical publications etc.
8. Identify right open source tools to deliver product features by performing research, POC/Pilot and/or interacting with various open-source forums
9. Deploy and monitor products on Cloud platforms

 Our Ideal Candidate:

You have a deep interest and passion for technology. You love writing and owning code and enjoy working with people who will keep challenging you at every stage. You have strong problem solving, analytic, decision-making and excellent communication with interpersonal skills. You are self-driven and motivated with the desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities.

 Your Qualifications:

1. 11+ years of experience as an Engineer
2. Ability to work with teams in a collaborative and productive manner
3. Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
4. A self-motivated learner and builder with strong customer focus and obsession with quality

 Must-Have:

1. Strong Expertise in Backend Technologies- Java, Spring Boot, etc 
2. Expertise in working with AWS or other cloud infrastructures like Azure or Google Cloud, and using Infrastructure-as-Code tools
3. Analyze Functional & Non-Functional requirements with effort estimation and deployment strategies
4. Hands-on in Architecting and developing large scale applications
5. Hands-on debugging skills
6. Design for performance, scalability, fault tolerance and high availability

 Good to have:

1. Experience in Client-side technologies such as jQuery
2. Experience in Front End Technologies is good to have (Javascript, React)
3. Experience with Storage systems - NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB)
4. Leveraging cutting edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, etc. to design and build new infrastructure features

  Behavioural traits: 

1. Excellent communication and technical leadership skills
2. Can-do attitude to take BIG problems by their horns and solve them
3. Ability to inspire others & be a role model and mentor for upcoming engineers in the organization
4. Entrepreneurial spirit to conceive ideas, turn challenges into opportunities and build products

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

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• Adding features to the existing applications for monitoring and supporting field operations.
• Implementing application testability and diagnostics and fixing bugs.
• Create/ deploy and follow CI/CD pipelines to manage deliveries

We are looking for a highly motivated developer with at least 1+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java to join our startup. You would be playing a pivotal role in contributing to the initial tech stack. You would be further responsible for designing and implementing product requirements that are highly usable, scalable, extensible, and maintainable. You should be comfortable working across different technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kubernetes, AWS.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Design and build scalable REST APIs on Spring Boot
• Develop, test, tune for performance and deploy microservices
• Collaborate with the team, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture
• Maintain high standards of quality for code, documentation and other deliverables
• Active cross-team coordination would be expected

What are we looking for?

• 1+ year experience in Core Java & backend technologies
• Good working knowledge of design patterns & OOAD
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• The skills that we consider: Java, MySQL/RDS, Spring/ Play, Maven, Redis, Kafka/SQS, Elasticsearch, AWS
• Experience in micro-services
• Previously worked in a startup