Software Engineer - E6 - Backend

Job Description

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 Must-Have: 9+ years of experience in engineering, with a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) Strong experience in Core Java, REST Expertise in Front End Technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS) Experience in building Web applications using frameworks like Spring Microservice architechture 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 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