Senior Product Engineer

Appian is seeking a Senior Product Engineer to join their team in Chennai. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the Appian platform remains fast, scalable, and adaptable to customer needs. This involves tackling complex scaling and flexibility challenges, contributing to a product that serves customers in unforeseen ways. The role extends from the high-performance data layer to the cross-platform user interface and design tools.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to write applications and solutions in existing Appian frameworks.
• Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of the product by engineering reliability into Application and systems.
• Contribute to Application performance analysis and system tuning.
• Perform application and code reviews which provide feedback not only on quality, but on design and implementation.
• Build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
• Mentor junior Product Engineers by sharing best-practices and providing guidance on how to become more proficient.

Requirements:

• MS in Computer Science or related field/degree and 1+ years of relevant experience, or a BS and 3+ years of relevant experience in technical consulting of a related field.
• Experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment.
• Fluency in Appian application development, data structures, integration, testing, scaling, optimization, and plug-in development.
• Prior experience building Industry Solutions using Appian's low-code platform highly desired.

Appian offers:

• Training and Development: Department-specific training during onboarding and continuous learning opportunities.
• Growth Opportunities: Leadership program, Appian University, skills-based training, and tuition reimbursement.
• Community: Inclusive environment with 8 employee-led affinity groups.

Appian emphasizes in-person collaboration and expects employees to be in the office 5 days a week.