Software Engineer - E6 - Backend

Albert Invent; Bengaluru; On-site; Full time

Job description

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 platform
• 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
• Develop and/or Contribute to add features for analytics at Whatfix and Deploy and monitor products on Cloud platforms
• Developandimplementbest-in-classmonitoringprocessestoenabledataapplicationstomeetSLAs

Must-Have

• 9+ years of experience in engineering, with a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Strong experience in Core Java, REST
• Experience in building Web applications using frameworks like Spring Microservice architecture
• 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

• Experienc in Frontend Technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJs
• Experience in Client-side technologies such as GWT, jQuery
• Knowledge of analytics platforms like Google Analytics, Omniture, ELK, Mixpanel etc
• Experience with Storage systems - RDBMS, NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB)

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

Note

• We strive to live and breathe our Cultural Principles and encourage employees to demonstrate some of these core values - Customer First; Empathy; Transparency; Fail Fast and scale Fast; No Hierarchies for Communication; Deep Dive and innovate; Trust, Do it as you own it;
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diverse people because of and not in spite of the differences. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
• At Whatfix, we deeply value collaboration, innovation, and human connection. We believe that being together in the office five days a week fosters open communication, strengthens our sense of community, and accelerates innovation—ultimately helping us achieve our goals more effectively. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility in balancing personal and professional priorities. To support this, we offer the option to work from home up to two days per month.
• In any situation that requires additional flexibility, we’re open to considering exceptions on a case‑by‑case basis to ensure you’re supported in managing both work and life seamlessly.