Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Backend Software Engineer role stands out in SaaS because it sits close to the product surface area where platform data becomes usable for customers. Building a visual layer over a proprietary query language, and doing so through APIs and modern UI components, reflects a common SaaS pattern: turning complex internal capabilities into self-serve workflows that scale across many tenants and use cases.
From a career perspective, the remit signals durable SaaS engineering experience in platform-adjacent product development. Work spanning Java services, API design, and integration approaches such as GraphQL and gRPC tends to sharpen skills that translate across B2B SaaS: designing evolvable interfaces, balancing performance with developer experience, and shipping features that must remain reliable under ongoing iteration. Ownership that includes L3 support also builds practical insight into operational feedback loops that mature SaaS systems.
This role is best suited to senior engineers who prefer end-to-end feature delivery rather than narrowly scoped implementation work. It will fit someone comfortable contributing to architecture and engineering standards, collaborating in an agile cadence, and engaging with real production issues to inform better design decisions over time.
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
Our project is to provide visual solution to investigate and query all data from our platform for customers using Nexthink Query Language (NQL) behind the scene hiding the complexity of the language. For that we developed Visual Editor, Rich data table with actions over data, and for more advanced queries we provide NQLEditor build on top of Monaco Editor.
Our technology stack:
Java, Micronaut Framework, ReactJs/Typescript, GraphQl, RestAPI, gRPC….
Design, implement, deliver and validate product features
Help improving the team architecture, design and development best practices
Handle L3 support requests (together with the rest of the team)
Participate actively in the technology roadmap
Work with the agile iterative/incremental mindset and best practices and participate actively to the different ceremonials
Qualifications
- Minimum 12+ years of experience in software development
- Proficient experience with Java
- Experience woring on Kafka
- Experience in API design
- BSc or MSc in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
- Able to design, implement, test, deliver and maintain product features
- Passionate towards continuous improvement, lean thinking, and high-quality work
- Motivation for complex challenges and learning new technologies
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Professional-level English spoken and written
- Comfortable using GIT and build tools (CI/CD)
Nice to have:
- Practical knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker
- Strong refactoring and test automation abilities
- Experience with observability and Cloud
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.
