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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
- Collaborating with the product team to understand the requirement
- Managing Design and development of the product
- Ensuring code quality, security and extensibility
- Following the agile development cycles
- Conducting performance tests and optimization of the code based on the results.
- Debugging and troubleshooting of technical issues
- Helping the support team to resolve external user issues
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- B.Tech /B.E.; M.Tech; MCA
- Strong at OOPS, Java/ J2EE, JAX-RS, JDBC, RESTful Web Services, Data Structures, Queues, Multi-Threading etc.
- MySQL and Mongo database knowledge
- Basic understanding of AWS Cloud
- Must have worked on highly scalable and available systems
- Good at adapting and understanding architecture and overall design of the system
- Exposure to design patterns is a plus
- Must have exposure to agile development
- Experience of creating and maintaining system documentation such as architecture, design, deployment plan etc.
- The candidate must have excellent technical skills and must be willing to learn
- new technologies on the go.
- Good at communication
- Good Exposure to Kafka and Redis
Roles & Responsibilities
As a member of our fast-growing engineering team, your responsibility will be to get involved in day-to-day development operations and solve complex problems of digitization to meet the demands of business.
To be successful, you must have a self-driven mindset, go getter attitude.
The responsibilities include:
- Writing the clean quality code & Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analyzing the requirements in the context of the product
- Envisioning the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, and being able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks
- Determining and implementing design methodologies and tool sets
- Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities
- Being able to lead/support UAT and production roll outs
- Creating, understanding and validating estimated effort for given module/task, and being able to justify it
- Addressing issues promptly, responding positively to setbacks and challenges with a mindset of continuous improvement
- Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations
- Helping the team in troubleshooting and resolving complex bugs
- Coming up with solutions to any issue that is raised during code/design review and being able to justify the decision taken
- Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements
- Carrying out DevOps activities which includes creating Jenkins pipeline
Key Skills
Should possess hands-on full life-cycle development experience (architect, design, code, test, release) be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, client/server-side development frameworks and third-party libraries.
- Should be strong in data structures and algorithms. Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
- Work with cutting edge technologies like Java 8, Scala, React, Akka, Docker, Puppet, and Salt
- Hands-on knowledge of Spring core, MVC, JPA. Working knowledge of Spring Boot
- Should have strong hands-on on one of the JavaScript frameworks: jQuery, AngularJS, ReactJS, and Vue.js.
- Willing to working with latest Cloud and Container technologies like AWS
- Experience with both external and embedded databases. NoSQL DB experience is good to have
- Implementing unit testing using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, etc.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Familiarity with Maven (Other building tools Ant and Gradle are good to have)
- Familiarity with continuous integration
- Good understanding of Agile practices


- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Own code for the products with responsibilities including but not limited to designing, developing, testing, maintenance of products.
- Building RESTful services and do DevOps.
- Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
- Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
- Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
- Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
- Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.
Skills & Requirements
- Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.
- At least 1-8 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Node.js(Node.js preferred).
- Understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture.
- Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics
- Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.
- Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Have empathy for the users you build for
Good to have
- Experience in the fintech industry
- Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services

1. Be a visible leader to drive and own the architecture and design of some of the most advanced & complex software systems / products in the industry to create company wide impact
2. Design systems that can scale to billions of data records in micro service architecture
3. Design and develop full stack product features based on customer and business requirements
4. Be an operational and technical leader with a passion for distributed systems, cloud service development, deployment and delivery
5. Technically Hands-on with scalable Architecture managing team of (30+) Sr. Engineers / Engineers, and coaching mentoring while maintaining a hands-on role with code development
6. Drive code and design reviews of components / systems / products in scope and drives the architectural governance for them
7. Set directional paths for the teams/department for adoption of new technology stacks for solving business problems
8. Be a very visible representative of multiple technology domains and represent Salesken in external technical forums
9. Teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks
10. Bring in software engineering life cycle best practice
11. Analytical and problem-solving skills
Desired Candidate Profile
1. Strong Java, Java 8 including OOAD design patterns
2. A solid engineer with must have knowledge and experience of Micro services design, security designs, and best practices
3. Excellent knowledge and skills in the areas of Java, Spring Boot, JSP/Servlet, J2EE design patterns, App server & Web servers
4. Strong hands-on technology experience building and running large scale systems handling multi-million sessions/transactions per day
5. Excellent knowledge of RDBMS, NoSQL databases like MySQL and Cassandra
6. Strong design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products
7. Excellent programming skills in Java and expertise in multi-threading and performance oriented programming
8. Sound knowledge of cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, Azure, etc
9. Solid experience in Distributed systems, highly scalable products, performance & reliability
10. Excellent understanding of processing platforms and queues
11. Excellent understanding of standard protocols such as HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SSL, etc
12. Experience and knowledge of open source software, frameworks and broader cutting edge technologies around server side development in Java
• Work with product team to understand product vision and requirements
• Solve complex technical problems and perform the code reviews for junior team members.
• Produce deliverables at a consistently high rate and with consistently excellent quality
• Work with a team of engineering professionals to ensure the highest quality product delivery
As a member of our team, you will be responsible for insuring the successful launch of many product features.
Key responsibilities
• Work in a product based R&D team and collaborate with other teams to integrate.
• Write code that is of high quality and consistent with our coding standards
• Analyze highly complex business requirements, break the requirements to multiple applications; generate technical
specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Maintain best practices for development/code changes as needed
• Design and architect software applications
• Conducting code reviews and enforcing the quality standards
• Conducting the daily SCRUM meetings and removing the roadblocks
• Performance testing and tuning for scalability
• Develop quick proof of concepts to set the technical direction for rest of the team.
• Work with Devops and Automation team to develop automation strategy for your application.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree (Masters preferred) in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of software development experience on web applications
• Experience in working in an onsite and offshore development model
• Must have hands-on design and development experience in Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, Microservices, Java, J2EE, Spring/Boot, Hibernate, JUnit and Integration with front end via rest interfaces.
• Must have Hands-on experience in Multi-threading, Non-blocking IO, Kafka, JMS
• Strong integration background required. Experience with Microservices, REST, JSON and APIs is required
• Experience with as many of the following is highly desirable: Tomcat, Node.js, XML, XSLT, XPath, Web Services, MongoDB, MYSQL, and query performance tuning
• Experience with code management and continuous integration techniques and tools such as Maven, Gradle, Github, JMeter, Jenkins, NPM etc. is highly desirable
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and working knowledge in data structures, algorithms, problem-solving and complexity analysis
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Proven ability to troubleshoot issues in production including root cause analysis
• Self-directed and capable of working effectively in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
• Experience with Agile software development in a UNIX/Linux environment
• Experience with system architecture/design
Qualifications
• Passionate about technology and technical challenges of all types excite you
• Eagerness to learn and learn fast, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to develop detailed design and deliver a scalable implementation.
• Mentor developers in analysis, design, coding and unit testing techniques
• Motivated self-starter and team player; you inspire others to achieve great thing
2. Experience with Microservices Architectures
3. Experience with RESTful and Stateless services
4. Broad and deep knowledge of design patterns and algorithms
- Strong hands on in Core Java, OOPS, Exception handling, Multi-Threading, Generics and design patterns.
- Proficient in designing and developing web applications using Java/JEE
- Working experience in Spring Boot, Spring Integration and REST Web services
- Exposure to UI technologies/frameworks like JavaScript, React JS , Flux and knowledge of CSS, HTML etc
- Build tools like Maven.
- Should possess good communication skills and a go getter attitude.
- Good in debugging code through eclipse and browsers
- Should be capable to work independently. Desirable
- Experience in any Continuous Integration/Delivery tools like GIT, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible
- Working knowledge of database like Oracle and application server like Tomcat, WebLogic.
- Knowledge of Linux
- Exposure to any test automation technologies such as Selenium, Fitnesse, Mockito, Junit, any other testing frameworks
- Candidate must to have exposure to working in a fast-paced environment using Agile methodologies
- A person with technical thrust who keeps him up to date with latest technology trends, practices, patterns etc. Knowledge of Open Source tools and technologies


Job Role – Technical Lead – Back End
Work Location - Bengaluru
Job Description –
Requirements
• 5+ years of experience in product companies
• Experience in software development and coding in multiple languages
• Experience in both front-end and back-end development with mastery in back-
end.
• Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture
• Understanding of software quality assurance principles
• Managed at least 4-5 engineers in their experience.
• High quality organisational and leadership skills
• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities
If you think you are one of them then please reply with your interest and we will take your candidature ahead for the next level of evaluation. Below information would be appreciated more:
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