Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer role stands out in SaaS because it sits close to the core of a product that manages digital employee experience at enterprise scale. Building distributed services that handle very high event volumes is a recurring pattern in mature B2B SaaS, where reliability and observability become product features in their own right. The focus on cloud native techniques and service resilience signals work that directly shapes how customers experience the platform day to day.
For a SaaS career, the role offers durable exposure to the mechanics of operating multi tenant systems: API design, asynchronous messaging, and the engineering trade offs that appear when throughput and uptime matter. Collaboration with product stakeholders and participation in code review and quality standards also builds the cross functional habits that translate well across SaaS organisations, especially where teams ship iteratively and maintain long lived services.
It is best suited to an early to mid career engineer who enjoys backend ownership, pragmatic problem solving, and improving existing systems as much as delivering new features. Someone comfortable balancing feature work with operational responsibilities, including support rotation, will likely find the scope aligned with how modern SaaS engineering teams run production software.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Company Description
Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue. As the first solution to allow IT to progress from reactive problem solving to proactive optimization, Nexthink enables its more than 1,300 customers to provide better digital experiences to more than 18 million employees. Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 offices worldwide.
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Job Description
We are looking for a skilled Java Engineer with a strong desire to learn and innovate – you help challenge the status quo and are eager to develop new skills to help Nexthink stay on the leading edge of digital employee experience. The candidate shall be motivated by both the product and the technology stack and able to produce scalable software solutions in an agile environment.
If you are motivated, result-driven, and detail-oriented, you have a sense of product ownership, and you constantly learn and are willing to collaborate with others, we would like to know you.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of an extremely dynamic, Silicon Valley-like unicorn company. We look forward to meeting you!
You will work on designing, building, and delivering resilient and scalable distributed services that process billions of events using modern cloud-native features and techniques. Your expertise will contribute to the reliability and efficiency of our platforms, influencing both our product and engineering DevOps practices in ensuring high system availability, scalability, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Implement, test, deliver, and maintain Nexthink's data importing and exporting features.
- Proactively collaborate with Product Management and other Engineering stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
- Advocate for improvements to product, security, quality, and performance.
- Craft code that meets our standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
- Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
- Ship features and improvements.
- Handle L3 support requests (together with the rest of the team).
- Work with the agile iterative/incremental mindset and best practices and participate actively in the different ceremonials.
Qualifications
- 2–4 years of experience as a Java developer in SaaS projects.
- Experience with Microservices frameworks. Micronaut framework would be a plus.
- Bsc/Msc in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience with RESTful APIs and messaging systems like Kafka is valued.
- Familiar with Unit and integration tests.
- Experience with CI/CD is a plus.
- Docker and Kubernetes are a plus.
- Good communication and teamwork skills.
- Self-motivated, with good organizational skills.
- Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Professional-level English spoken and written.
Additional Information
We are the pioneers and trailblazers of a global IT Market Category (DEX) that is shaping the future of how the world works, giving our customers’ IT Teams total digital visibility across their enterprise. Our innovative solutions integrate real-time analytics, automation, and employee feedback across all endpoints. This enables our IT teams to solve complex technical challenges, create ever more productive workplaces, and deliver happy, satisfied employees in the digital workplace.
With over 1000 employees across 5 continents, Nexthink operates as One Team, connecting, collaborating and innovating to continuously grow. We call our employees ‘Nexthinkers’ and our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity is second to none. We currently have over 75 nationalities working with us, from all cultures and backgrounds, speaking many different languages.
If you are looking for a change and like a nice atmosphere, lots of challenges, and having fun while working, this is a great opportunity for you! Check what we offer:
🩺 Health insurance through our partnership with ACKO, including OPD coverage for dental, vision, health check-ups, consultations, and pharmacy expenses.
🏖️ Flexible Hours and unlimited vacation (employees have unlimited paid time off on top of the 22 days of holidays we offer). Plus, company-paid bank holidays (12), sick days (10-30), bereavement leave (5), and 3 days per year for volunteering.
🛡️ Stay covered against accidents, bodily injuries, and disabilities with our personal accident insurance policy, providing assurance with coverage up to three times your annual CTC.
🍼 New mothers are entitled to up to 26 weeks of maternity leave, with the flexibility to use up to 8 weeks before the expected delivery and the remaining 18 weeks after. Birth fathers can take 6 weeks of paternity leave, while adoptive parents are eligible for 26 weeks of leave for mothers and 6 weeks for fathers.
💰 Under the Payment of Gratuity Act, receive gratuity at the rate of 15 days of basic pay for every completed year of service, provided you've been employed by the company for a minimum of 5 years. Gratuity is payable at retirement or resignation based on your last drawn basic pay.
Please note that not all the benefits listed above are available for temporary, contract, and internship roles. To ensure you have the most up-to-date information, we recommend checking with your Recruitment Partner.
