2 months ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and construct high-performance, resilient platform features, APIs, and shared frameworks.
- Execute technical spikes to support system stability, modularity, and long-term scalability.
- Lead code reviews, proactive refactoring, and low-latency performance optimization.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.
- Design automated workflows and self-service platform tools that improve developer velocity.
- Author design documents and system guides to maintain architectural alignment across engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on Platform Engineering, Enterprise Software Design, or Developer Enablement.
- Hands-on proficiency in Java, Python, or Go.
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices, modular design, and high-throughput API development.
- Troubleshooting and observability experience using telemetry, logging, and monitoring tools.
- Preferred experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, GitOps, internal developer platforms, and cloud cost optimization.
- Preferred knowledge of enterprise security frameworks including SOC2 or FedRAMP.
- Experience with Salesforce or ServiceNow is valued.
Benefits
- Health coverage, an Employee Assistance Program with free mental health support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Stock Purchase Program, retirement or pension benefits, wellness dollars, tuition reimbursement, and family-forming benefits may be available depending on country.
- Department-specific onboarding training, continuous learning, mentorship, and the First-Friend program.
- Leadership development, Appian University training, skills-based training, and tuition reimbursement opportunities.
- Eight employee-led affinity groups and related community, social, educational, and outreach activities.
- On-site work model in Chennai, India.
About Appian
Appian builds a low-code platform for process automation, case management, and data orchestration, used by large enterprises and government agencies to design and run mission-critical workflows. It sells subscriptions and services for cloud and on-premise deployments, spanning BPM, RPA, process mining, and AI-enabled capabilities. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Appian is a public company listed on NASDAQ.