Whatfix - Frontend Engineer - React.js (6-12 yrs)

About Whatfix :

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.

Job Description :

The Engineering team at Whatfix provides end-to-end engineering throughput that forms part of core platforms and services that drive Whatfix's 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 the Whatfix product/ business.

Our product is built around a core of JAVA with enterprise businesses using the Whatfix system. 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 the software you write will be used by people from all over the world.

Responsibilities :

- Designed and developed highly scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant systems for one of the world's fastest growing startups.

- Work with businesses 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 before submitting to back-end services.

- Promote best practices in design and coding.

- Conduct design and code reviews.

- Understand the customer needs and implement.

- 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.

Requirements :

- 6+ years of professional front-end development experience.

- Hands-on experience with front-end technologies - HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

- Experience with React Ecosystem (React Router, Styled-components, Server-side rendering, Context API, React Hooks) is strongly preferred.

- Experience with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX is a huge plus.

- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues.

- Experience in backend programming languages such as Java/Python/Node is strongly preferred.

- Work experience, preferably from internet companies, products, or startups.

- Expertise in design principles and their application.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

- Fast Learner and Team Player