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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- Write and maintain server-side code using Java.
- Develop and integrate APIs to support frontend functionality.
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- Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate backend and frontend systems.
- Write unit tests to ensure code quality.
Required Skills:
- Strong experience with Java.
- Familiarity with Spring Boot or other Java frameworks.
- Knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).
- Understanding of REST APIs.
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Basic knowledge of unit testing (e.g., JUnit).
Preferred Skills:
- Familiarity with Microservices and cloud platforms.
- Experience with Docker and containerization.
Duration: 6 months with possible extension
Location: Remote
Notice Period: Immediate Joiner Preferred
Experience: 4-6 Years
Requirements:
- B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college with a minimum of 4 – 6 years of experience in a Product Development Company
- Sound knowledge and application of algorithms and data structures with space and me complexities
- Strong design skills involving data modeling and low-level class design
- Good knowledge of object-oriented programming and design patterns
- Proficiency in Python, Java, and Golang
- Follow industry coding standards and be responsible for writing maintainable/scalable/efficient code to solve business problems
- Hands-on experience of working with Databases and the Linux/Unix platform
- Follow SDLC in an agile environment and collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to drive deliveries
- Strong technical aptitude and good knowledge of CS fundamentals
What will you get to do here?
- Coming up with best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually thrive in improving the technology of the product/team.
- Driving the adoption of best practices & regular Participation in code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions.
- Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create.
- Implementation of long-term technology vision for your team.
- Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing/new areas
- Decide on technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, both verbal and written •
• 7+ years of experience in Java/Node.js, REST/Graph QL, Redis on AWS Fargate • Design and develop high quality back-end code (Node.js/Go/JAVA) • Excellent in one or more Go, Java, Node.js skills • In-depth knowledge of Restful / GraphQL API, JSON.
• Experience with CI/CD and tools like Git, Bitbucket and Jenkins.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL) and experience in NoSQL (e.g., Graph DB, MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Developing new software applications, features, and distributed services that support a high-scale web application
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment; continuous deployment, test-driven development, agile methodologies
• Stay current with the latest back-end technologies and best practices and share your findings with the team
• Help evolve our backend stack and mentor our other developers when it comes to patterns and best practices
• Work as part of an agile team across a variety of application domains
• Write structured, tested, readable and maintainable code • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distributed knowledge
• Ability to contribute to each step of the product development process (ideation, implementation, and release)
• Experience with performance tuning, profiling, and debugging applications
Desired Candidate Profile
- A team focus with strong collaboration and communication skills
- Exceptional ability to quickly grasp high-level business goals, derive requirements, and translate them into effective technical solutions
- Exceptional object-oriented thinking, design and programming skills (Java 8 or 11)
- Expertise with the following technologies : Data Structures, Design Patterns ,Code Versioning Tools(Github/bitbucket/..), XML, JSON, Spring Batch Restful, Spring Cloud, Grafana(Knowledge/Experience), Kafka, Spring Boot, Microservices, DB/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Architecture design (Patterns) Agile, JIRA.
- Penchant toward self-motivation and continuous improvement; these words should describe you: dedicated, energetic, curious, conscientious, and flexible.
enterprise-grade applications.
You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications. Java
developer roles and responsibilities include managing Java/Java EE application development
while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to
testing.
Responsibilities and Duties
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs should follow compliance with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and
presenting these for architectural review
Qualifications
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject
• Minimum 4.5 to 6 years of software development experience
• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE
platforms
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2,
Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Very good English communication skills
• Optional:
o Good to have the knowledge of Angular JS framework.
o Experience to work on the Microservice architecture.
o Experience to work with Git hub & bitbucket.
o Agile methodology.
Requirements
- Experience in open source technologies - Solr, Redis, Kafka
- Exposure to building & managing applications in Amazon Webservices (AWS)
- Experience in security, scalability & performance aspects of solution
- Critical Skills: 1. Java / J2EE, Spring, PostGreSQL 2. Nginx, Tomcat 3. Developing REST webservices
Desired Skills and Experience
Responsibilities Include
You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.
Requirements
- B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural role.
- Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
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- Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
- Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
- Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
- A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
- Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc.
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