When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.

This position is based at our office in Chennai, India. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best.

You will be the product manager working closely with the team whose mission is to strengthen and optimize site infrastructure by delivering essential upgrades, resource efficiency, and scalable solutions. You will be responsible for the direction and roadmap of a component of the Appian Cloud data plane that ensures reliable, high-performance operations for all Appian Cloud customer sites.

This role is specifically focused on the cloud-native persistence and messaging layer. You will oversee the backend sub-systems—including technologies like S3 and Redis—that power the platform's internal data plane and core services. This component of the software is not directly user-facing but has strong implications on the scalability and reliability requirements our customers expect.

What you will be doing:

• Prioritize and Define: Work on an agile team to prioritize, define, and ensure the success of infrastructure and managed services features for a high-level strategic roadmap.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Prioritize what we should build and when by collaborating with stakeholders on product vision and strategy, while taking customer feedback into account.
• Technical Discussions: Define how infrastructure features will work through close collaboration with engineers in design sessions and architecture diagrams.
• Backlog Management: Manage the release and sprint backlog through planning, backlog grooming, execution, and review.
• Specification Writing: Write detailed specifications for the team and fellow product managers to review and provide feedback on.
• Impact Analysis: Track adoption and usage of new features, applying appropriate metrics and analytics to evaluate whether they are having the desired impact.
• Ownership: Own features all the way through final documentation, go-to-market, prioritization of bugs, and usage analysis.

About you:

• Experienced: You have 3+ years of relevant experience in product management or engineering, ideally within a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company.
• Technical at Heart: You have a strong technical background and an understanding of key concepts related to availability, scalability, resiliency, and security.
• Cloud-Native Enthusiast: You understand the value of cutting-edge infrastructure technologies like Kubernetes and are passionate about cloud-native architecture.
• Strategic Thinker: You are a problem solver with a proven ability to prioritize, negotiate, and execute in a fast-paced environment.
• Clear Communicator: You can draw clarity out of complex environments and communicate technical benefits to various audiences.

Nice to have:

• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, EBS, EFS, DynamoDB) to support mission-critical systems.
• Persistence Domain Knowledge: Experience or interest in the scalability and reliability of distributed persistence and messaging systems.
• DevOps Mindset: A believer in the principles of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code.
• Education: BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

This role is based at our Chennai office in Brigade World Trade Center Chennai. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.  
 

Why project44?  

At project44, we believe in better.  

We challenge the status quo because we know a better supply chain isn’t just possible—it’s essential. Better for our customers. Better for their business. Better for the world.  With our Decision Intelligence Platform, Movement, we’re redefining how global supply chains operate. By transforming fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights, we empower companies to connect instantly, see clearly, act decisively, and automate intelligently. Our Supply Chain AI enhances visibility, drives smarter execution, and unlocks next-gen applications that keep businesses moving forward.  Headquartered in Chicago, IL with a 2nd HQ in Bengaluru, India we are powered by a diverse global team that is tackling the toughest logistics challenges with innovation, urgency, and purpose.  If you’re driven to solve meaningful problems, leverage AI to scale rapidly, drive impact daily, and be part of a high-performance team – we should talk. 

Description:   

project44 is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend to join our engineering team. You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and implementing best-in-class integrations to accelerate how project44 connects to the world’s logistics networks.  

 Key accountabilities: What you'll work on  

• Build state-of-the-art integrations to expand our ever-growing network of connected carriers and customers.  
• Manage integrations through their life cycle.  
• Operate, maintain, and improve the supply chain visibility platform owned by the team.  
• Building systems in a multi-cloud environment. We use AWS and GCP but value experience in other cloud environments such as Azure.  
• Work with and align with cross functional teams to solve challenging problems.  
• Share ownership of all facets of software delivery, including development, operations, and test  
• You will assume on-call responsibilities for systems (together with the team) that are built and owned by your team.   
• You will invest in tools, monitoring, and automation to improve on-call experience for everyone on your team.  

 Qualifications:  

• 5+ years professional experience building large scale and real time or near real time cloud systems. 
• Strong programming and debugging skills, with proficiency in C++ or Java. 

Experience in:  

• Building systems in a multi-cloud environment. We use AWS & GCP but value experience in other cloud environments such as Azure.  

• Creating and working with scalable Java-based micro-services.  
• Working with databases (preferably Postgres or other SQL based DB)  
• Event stores and stream-processing in Kafka or Kinesis.  
• Working in an agile software development environment.  

Desirable and helpful (but not necessary) are experience in  

• Experience with investigating large and complex codebases 
• Hands-on experience with Java 
• Creating API's/web services: REST, OpenAPI/Swagger is a plus.  
• Container-orchestration: Docker & Kubernetes  
• Enjoy database related work: DynamoDB, MongoDB, Postgres.  
• Analytical approach to problem solving.  
• Personal drive and maintaining a high pace - while taking responsibility for things working.  
• Willingness to vocalize your ideas and pick yourself up if you get knocked down.

In-office Commitment: This position requires a commitment to contribute to our collaborative culture by working in-office Three days weekly. 

Diversity & Inclusion 

At project44, we're designing the future of how the world moves and is connected through trade and global supply chains. As we work to deliver a truly world-class product and experience, we are also intentionally building teams that reflect the unique communities we serve. We’re focused on creating a company where all team members can bring their authentic selves to work every day. 

We’re building a company that every one of us at project44 is proud to work for, and our journey of becoming a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization, where all have a sense of belonging, is shaped through the actions of our leadership, global teams, and individual team members. We are resolute in our belief that each team member has an equal responsibility to mold and uphold our culture. 

project44 is an equal opportunity employer seeking to enrich our work environment by creating opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds and experiences to thrive. If you share our values and our passion for helping the way the world moves, we’d love to review your application! 

For any accommodation needed during the hiring process, please email   recruiting@project44.com. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above job description you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements. 

More about project44 

Since 2014, project44 has been transforming the way one of the largest, most important global industries does business. As transportation and logistics continue to evolve and customer expectations around delivery become more demanding, industry technology must rise to the occasion. In just a few short years, we have created a digital infrastructure that eliminates the inefficiencies caused by dated technology and manual processes. Our Advanced Visibility Platform is used by the world’s leading brands to track shipments, collaborate with supply chain partners, drive operational efficiencies, and create outstanding customer experiences.