Principal Engineer at Whatfix · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 10 - 17 years · Raised funding · Posted 16 Mar 2023
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:
- Define architecture blueprints & take complete technical ownership of high-level design, tech stack, non-functional attributes of one or more components of various platforms
- Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide
- Work closely with other architects in the team and ensure architectural consistency and technical excellence of the products and platforms
- Work with engineering teams in building high-quality and highly resilient scalable products and platforms at Whatfix
- Work with cross-functional teams to address all technical dependencies
- Drive some of the company-wide tech initiatives striving towards continuous technical excellence of our platforms
- Actively participate in technical innovations, external presentations, technical publications etc.
- Identify right open source tools to deliver product features by performing research, POC/Pilot and/or interacting with various open-source forums
- 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:
- 11+ years of experience as an Engineer
- Ability to work with teams in a collaborative and productive manner
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
- A self-motivated learner and builder with strong customer focus and obsession with quality
Must-Have:
- Strong Expertise in Backend Technologies- Java, Spring Boot, etc
- Expertise in working with AWS or other cloud infrastructures like Azure or Google Cloud, and using Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Analyze Functional & Non-Functional requirements with effort estimation and deployment strategies
- Hands-on in Architecting and developing large scale applications
- Hands-on debugging skills
- Design for performance, scalability, fault tolerance and high availability
Good to have:
- Experience in Client-side technologies such as jQuery
- Experience in Front End Technologies is good to have (Javascript, React)
- Experience with Storage systems - NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB)
- Leveraging cutting edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, etc. to design and build new infrastructure features
Behavioural traits:
- Excellent communication and technical leadership skills
- Can-do attitude to take BIG problems by their horns and solve them
- Ability to inspire others & be a role model and mentor for upcoming engineers in the organization
- 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

About Whatfix
About
The WhatFix Difference
125% ⬆️Higher employee productivity
45% 👇🏼Lesser support tickets
84% 📉Reduction of training content creation costs
65% 🚣🏼Fatser launches for enterprise applications
300% 🚴🏼♀️Faster time-to-proficiency for new employees
30% 🏃🏼Faster time to knowledge discovery
Whatfix: Scalable Success With Software
Whatfix removes the barriers between your users and true productivity across all software. Our Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) analyzes and automates processes, providing step-by-step guidance within each application.
Whatfix focuses on accelerating user adoption by enhancing self-service capability of web products, thereby helping companies to onboard customers, reduce support queries and improve user engagement. It is a cloud platform using which product teams can self-curate interactive guides & integrate across all user touch points.
Whatfix is based on patent-pending technology and being used by large as well as small enterprises for improving training effectiveness, enhancing customer support, and to improve user on-boarding.
Interesting? Know more about us: https://whatfix.com/about-us/
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Company Name: Chella Software Private Limited
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THE PARTNER OF CHOICE FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS
Our deep domain experience, ultra-high-performance software solutions, and on-time project delivery make us the preferred partner for the financial markets.
Over the last two decades, Chella Software has built deep domain experience in the financial markets and a capability for developing ultra-high-performance software that can handle very high volumes of data with the lowest levels of latency.
We are now preferred partners for a host of Central Banks, Stock Exchanges, Clearing Corporations, Brokerages, and Institutional Investors across 12 countries.
We are a global provider of fintech solutions for central banks, exchanges, central counter parties, and financial market intermediaries. We meet the software needs of customers in India, the Middle East, Africa, Singapore, and the USA.
Central Banks:
- Our portfolio of solutions for central banks includes:
- Chella Switch, a national payment and settlement system designed for central banks in frontier markets, and
- Chella Horizen, a robust, reliable and full coverage investment management and accounting platform for reserve management.
Exchanges and CCPs:
We are at the forefront of providing customized solutions for exchanges, CCPs, depositories, and other financial market infrastructure. Our high-speed, low-latency, high-volume, massively scalable systems are spread across the core areas of trading, surveillance, risk management, clearing, settlement, and compliance.
Our teams have deep expertise in:
- Developing and implementing bespoke solutions on a build-operate-maintain model.
- Re-architecting and re-engineering core applications to address performance and scalability challenges.
- Migrating legacy systems to the latest technologies without disrupting operations.
- Defining and building digital experiences and journeys that facilitatethe addition of new investors to the market.
Brokerages:
Our solutions for brokerages include:
- Chella Trader, a multi-asset, multi-exchange, multi-currency, omni-channel order management system, and
- Chella Clearvision is a modular broker back office that helps scale a broker’s business with incremental investments.
Institutional Investors:
We meet the investment management needs of institutional investors through Chella IMS, a full coverage post-trade investment management and IFRS-compliant accounting platform for pension funds, insurance firms, and family offices.
Location: Madurai - Tamil Nadu
Mode of Working: Work Form Office (Interview shall be face to face at Madurai)
Days of Working: 5 Days a week
Responsibilities
Job Description:
- Tech Architect with expertise in Java Spring Boot to design and implement robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems. As a Tech Architect, you will be responsible for shaping the technical direction of complex software projects and providing architectural guidance to engineering teams.
- This role requires deep technical knowledge, leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of solutions that meet business and technical requirements. Experience in the Fintech domain is an added advantage.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architectural Design & Strategy:
- Lead the architectural design and implementation of scalable, maintainable, and secure backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.
- Define best practices for code quality, testing, security, and deployment processes. Drive the adoption of modern development methodologies (Agile, DevOps) and frameworks.
- Technical Leadership:
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to developers and engineers on coding standards, design patterns, and technologies.
- Ensure the architecture is aligned with business goals and technical constraints. Conduct code reviews and enforce best practices to maintain high-quality standards.
- Collaboration:
- Work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, integrate with third-party services, and ensure the overall system design is cohesive.
- Problem Solving:
- Analyze and resolve complex technical challenges, such as performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and system integrations.
- Evaluate and implement new technologies, tools, and frameworks to continually improve the development process.
- Documentation & Reporting:
- Document architectural designs, technical specifications, and implementation guides.
- Provide regular updates on project progress, risks, and technical challenges to senior leadership.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices.
- Recommend improvements to system architecture, processes, and technologies to enhance the software development lifecycle.
Interview process: Virtual and Face-to-Face
Skills:
Experience: 9-12 Years
Location: Madurai
Job Type: Full-time
Education: B.E(Any stream)/ B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech. or similar
Skills: Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions for capital markets.
- This is a global role and, hence, will provide opportunities to work with organizations across the globe.
- Learn from experienced professionals and grow into a solution architect, product manager or sales role.
- Opportunity for rapid personal and professional growth.
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Position Title : Software Engineer
Position Type: Full-Time
Department: Research & Development
Reports To: First Level Manager,
Company Background:
Affiliated with US Group companies, CGLIA Solutions LLP is an innovative Software Product Development organization developing highly available, highly secure, cloud-based enterprise software products catering to the needs of leading Research Facilities, University Medical Centers, Hospitals, and Pharmaceutical companies across the globe, ultimately contributing to the development of life-saving medications.
CGLIA is committed to helping software professionals unleash their creativity, build world-class enterprise applications, and accelerate their careers in a collaborative and innovation-driven environment.
Job Summary :
As a Software Engineer (Java), you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-based enterprise applications. You will work closely with Product Management, Business Analysts, QA, DevOps, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver innovative software solutions that exceed customer expectations.
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Key Responsibilities
- Participate in requirement analysis and collaborate with Product Management to understand functional and non-functional requirements.
- Contribute to technical design discussions and prepare technical design documentation.
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java and Spring Boot.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and Microservices.
- Write clean, reusable, maintainable, and well-documented code following industry best practices.
- Optimize application performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
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- Stay updated with emerging technologies, frameworks, and software development best practices.
- Participate in technical interviews and hiring activities to support organizational growth.
- Undertake additional responsibilities as required to achieve project and organizational objectives.
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or an equivalent discipline.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Java application development.
- Strong expertise in Core Java (Java 8/11/17) and Object-Oriented Programming concepts.
- Extensive experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, and Hibernate.
- Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and Microservices.
- Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL Server.
- Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, Design Patterns, and Multithreading.
- Angular, Bootstrap, Material Design, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
- Hands-on experience with Git, Maven/Gradle, and Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
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Sr. Technology Architect
Experience Range: 12–15+ years of IT experience, including 3–5+ years in leadership / people management roles.
Location: Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore
Qualification: B. Tech /B.E in computer science or equivalent
Minimum 10+ years of experience in Advanced Java
At least 2+ years of experience for the following areas:
- Lead and mentor full-stack development teams across multiple projects and workstreams.
- Define technical architecture, coding standards, and development best practices.
- Drive end-to-end delivery of enterprise applications using Agile methodologies.
- Oversee application design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Ensure adherence to security, performance, quality, and compliance standards.
- Collaborate with clients, product owners, architects, and cross-functional teams.
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- Promote DevOps, CI/CD, and automation practices to improve delivery efficiency
Must Haves-
- Strong experience in Java Full Stack Development.
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- Hands-on experience with SQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL databases.
- Front-end expertise in React, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and JSP.
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Good to Haves-
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- Experience with performance tuning, observability, and application monitoring tools.
- Telecom, OSS/BSS, or enterprise digital transformation domain experience.
- SAFe Agile, PMP, Scrum Master, or cloud certifications.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and engineering productivity platforms.
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Staff Engineer - AI:
Location : India, Remote
Job Description
Egnyte is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering department. The Engineering department builds large distributed components and services that run Egnyte's Cloud Platform. Our code serves billions of requests per day with sub-second latency in a fault-tolerant environment. We process and analyze millions of files and events daily. Some of the responsibilities for this department include Egnyte's Cloud File System, Content Classification, Content Lifecycle Management, User Behavior Analysis, Object Store, Metadata Stores, Search Systems, Recommendations Systems, Synchronization, and intelligent caching of multi-petabyte datasets. We are looking for candidates with a shared passion for building large-scale distributed systems and a keen sense for tackling complexities that come with scaling through multiple orders of magnitude.
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About Egnyte
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Location: Bangalore
Department: Engineering
Reports to: SVP
Experience required: 6+ years
About Tracxn:
Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem.
We are a team of 600+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.
Founders
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- Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)
About Technology Team:
Tracxn's Technology team is 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team compared to an individual.
We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.
Our Tech Stacks:
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.
Job Overview:
We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
- Own technical planning, architecture discussions, and execution
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
- Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
- Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
- Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
- Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers
Job Requirements :
Professional Experience
- Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
- Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
- Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
- Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.
Technical Leadership & Management
- Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
- Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
- Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
- Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management
Backend & System Architecture Expertise
- Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
- Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
- Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and knowledge of data pipelines and data warehousing concepts.
Technical Competencies
- Strong system design and problem-solving skills
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- Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
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- Understanding of security best practices in backend systems
Culture:
- Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
- Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
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Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience building production backend systems.
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Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have Tech Lead ownership, with experience setting technical direction, architecture, frameworks, or engineering standards used by other engineers.
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Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have strong hands-on Backend development experience with deep proficiency in at least one backend programming language. (Python, Java, Golang etc)
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Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have strong System design/distributed systems experience, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
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Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have experience designing and building APIs, backend services, and external/enterprise integrations, including ownership of complex business logic and production systems.
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Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design/code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.
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Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must be a hands-on IC + Tech Lead, with approximately 70–80% hands-on coding/engineering involvement, not a pure people-management profile.
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Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies / Startups / B2B SaaS
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Mandatory (Education) - CS degree or equivalent (B.Tech/B.E./B.S.)
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Senior Software Engineer – Backend
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Location: Bangalore, Hybrid
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 5+ Years
About the Role
House of EdTech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend services and APIs supporting products used by millions of learners.
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What You'll Do
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- Own backend features from design and development through deployment and monitoring.
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- Identify and solve performance, scalability, reliability, and security challenges.
- Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
- Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
- Monitor production systems and troubleshoot incidents.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java, Python, Scala, C++, or a similar language.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and databases.
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- Experience with system design, architecture, and technical decision-making.
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- Experience mentoring engineers is a plus.
Why Join House of EdTech?
- Work on products impacting millions of learners.
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- Take significant ownership of architecture and engineering decisions.
- Opportunity to grow into technical leadership and architectural ownership.
- Work in a fast-growing technology environment.
Experience: 12–15 Years
Job Type: Full-time
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Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Java Lead with 12–15 years of hands-on software development experience to lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable enterprise applications. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Core Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, SQL, and cloud technologies, along with proven experience in technical leadership and mentoring development teams.
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- Work closely with product managers, business analysts, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders.
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- Strong hands-on experience with Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
- Excellent experience in Microservices architecture and RESTful web services.
- Strong understanding of design patterns, SOLID principles, and software architecture.
- Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
- Experience with Hibernate/JPA.
- Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with Git and Maven/Gradle.
- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ is an advantage.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Proven experience in leading or mentoring technical teams.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to drive technical discussions and make sound engineering decisions.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, agile environment.
- Strong ownership and accountability for technical deliverables.
- Ability to balance hands-on development with technical leadership responsibilities.
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on large-scale, distributed enterprise applications.
- Experience with cloud-native application development.
- Knowledge of event-driven architecture.
- Experience with system design and high-level/low-level design.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
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Software Development Engineer 2
(Backend – Java)
Location: (5 days WFO) Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri
East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400093
Experience: 3–5 Years
Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development
About Company
The Company is a B2B fintech neobank simplifying business banking and credit for Indian businesses.
We believe that Indian businesses — both small and large — are financially underserved, and
our mission is to empower them through powerful B2B financial products.
Our offerings include:
● Business current accounts
● Corporate credit cards
● Payment collection reminders
● Working capital management tools
● Payroll automation
● Invoice tracking
● Rewards/cashback on account transactions and balances
We are building financial infrastructure that helps Indian businesses access liquidity, manage
operations seamlessly, and scale confidently.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer 2 (Backend – Java) to design, build, and
scale robust backend systems and APIs that power company's fintech platform.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in Java-based backend development,
a solid understanding of system design principles, and experience building scalable, secure
financial systems.
Key Responsibilities
● Design, develop, and maintain backend applications and RESTful APIs using Java
● Implement business logic, data models, and algorithms to support product features
● Ensure high reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems
● Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices
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● Work closely with product managers and frontend teams to translate requirements into
technical solutions
● Contribute to architecture decisions and continuous improvement of development
processes
● Stay updated with emerging backend technologies and fintech trends
Technical Requirements
Core Backend Skills
● Strong proficiency in Java
● Experience with Spring / Spring Boot
● Hands-on experience with Hibernate / JPA
● Experience building RESTful APIs
● Strong knowledge of Servlets, JSP
● Understanding of MVC architecture
Database & Storage
● Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases & SQL
● Experience with ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
● Familiarity with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra)
● Understanding of caching mechanisms
Testing & Development Practices
● Experience with JUnit, TestNG, Mockito
● Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD)
● Strong understanding of SDLC & Agile methodologies
● Proficiency with Git
● Exposure to CI/CD practices






