Software Engineer - E6 - Frontend

Whatfix • Full-time • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • 23h ago

Who are we?

Founded in 2014 by Khadim Batti and Vara Kumar, Whatfix is a leading global B2B SaaS provider and the largest pure-play enterprise digital adoption platform (DAP). Whatfix empowers companies to maximize the ROI of their digital investments across the application lifecycle, from ideation to training to the deployment of software. Driving user productivity, ensuring process compliance, and improving user experience of internal and customer-facing applications.

Spearheading the category with serial innovation and unmatched customer-centricity, Whatfix is the only DAP innovating beyond the category, positioning itself as a comprehensive suite for GenAI-powered digital adoption, analytics, and application simulation. Whatfix product suite consists of 3 products - Mirror, DAP and Analytics. This product suite helps businesses accelerate ROI on digital investments by streamlining application deployment across its lifecycle.

Whatfix has seven offices across the US, India, UK, Germany, Singapore, and Australia and a presence across 40+ countries.
Customers: 700+ enterprise customers, including over 85 Fortune 500 companies such as Shell, Microsoft, Schneider Electric, and UPS Supply Chain Solutions.
Investors: Raised a total of ~$270 million. Most recently Series E round of $125 Million led by Warburg Pincus with participation from existing investor SoftBank Vision Fund 2
Other investors include Cisco Investments, Eight Roads Ventures (A division of Fidelity Investments), Dragoneer Investments, Peak XV Partners, and Stellaris Venture Partners.

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.

On a monthly basis, millions of interactive guides are processed. Building, testing, and deploying to any of our environments are as simple as pushing a commit to a git branch. We like to keep our technology up-to-date. All of the technology is built and maintained by this small development team, so from day 1, software you write will be used by people from all over the world.

Responsibilities:

Design and develop highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems for one of the world’s fastest growing startups.
Work with business to define requirements
Perform technical design and hands-on coding for development and enhancement efforts
Develop new user-facing features
Building reusable code and libraries for future use
Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
Assure that all user input is validated
Promote best practices in design and coding
Conduct design and code reviews
Understand the customer needs; design and implement envision project goals, product
architectural solutions with a high focus on detail to ensure successful implementation.
Articulate complex problems communicating viable architecture and design approaches in a clear
and concise manner.
Enhance the agile SDLC within the Development Team through new learning, continued growth, and
applying industry best practices and processes.
Occasionally participate in customer demos and provide inputs wherever required
Keep optimizing and automating mundane tasks.

You will be a core member of the team. Individual growth is important to us. We schedule time every week to explore an interest or learn something new. Team members have also used it to do everything from learning new algorithms to playing with the new framework to exploring what the new analytics layer could be used for. We also take some time each day to discuss what we're working on, and even pair programs to teach each other about parts of the codebase. There is no risk of stagnation in this job, you will be hands-on throughout.

Requirements:

Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, Scss, TypeScript & JavaScript. (must have)
Proficient in building user interfaces with React and its ecosystem (React Router, Server-side Rendering, Context API, React Hooks) (must have)Webpack build tool with module federation & Micro front-end architecture experience is a plus
Experience with Elasticsearch, Hadoop MR, Familiarity to Generative AI, Native Desktop applications is a plus.
Web extension development experience (preferred)
In-depth understanding of cross-browser compatibility and solutions
Experience with backend development (Java preferred)
Experience building microservice using frameworks like Spring and microservice architecture
Proven experience working in a fast-paced environment, preferably for internet companies, products, or startups
Strong grasp of design principles and their practical application
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Eager to learn and thrive in a collaborative team environment

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 & Scale Fast; No Hierarchies for Communication; Deep Dive & 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