<h2>Job Description</h2>Software Engineer (Backend or Fullstack) – Change ManagementLocation: Pune, India - Hybrid | Full-Time<h2>Join Zendesk and Shape the Future of IT Service Management</h2>Zendesk is building a next-generation IT Service Management (ITSM) platform to help organizations streamline internal operations, modernize IT workflows, and enhance service delivery across the enterprise. As part of this initiative, we are assembling a new Change Management team that will design, build, and evolve the change request and approval framework that drives IT process reliability and compliance.We are looking for a Software Engineer to join this team and contribute significantly to developing backend and full-stack features that power change management across the Zendesk ecosystem. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and senior engineers to build scalable components, intuitive APIs, and seamless user experiences. If you enjoy solving challenging technical problems, contributing to robust development processes, and building impactful enterprise tools, this is the role for you.<h2>What You’ll Do</h2><h3>Contribute to Engineering Excellence &amp; Innovation</h3><ul><li>Design and build features and components for enterprise-grade service catalog functionality, supporting structured service request workflows, automated approvals, and request bundling.</li><li>Contribute to the implementation of reliable, secure, performant, extensible, and scalable solutions for enterprise customers.</li><li>Work on event-driven architectures, building service lifecycle automation, SLA enforcement, and intelligent fulfillment tracking.</li><li>Propose and implement technical solutions for features, effectively communicating rationale to the team and stakeholders.</li><li>Ensure code quality, maintainability, and scalability by adhering to established best practices and industry standards.</li></ul><h3>Collaborate &amp; Deliver High-Impact Solutions</h3><ul><li>Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering Leaders to execute the technical roadmap.</li><li>Proactively identify and help mitigate potential issues in development, testing, or delivery stages.</li><li>Participate in application improvement discussions, project initiatives, and feature design to drive continuous enhancements.</li><li>Build reusable components and code that improve development efficiency and consistency.</li><li>Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to maintain high engineering standards.</li><li>Take ownership of assigned features from development through to successful deployment, ensuring high quality, reliability, and performance.</li><li>Improve multi-tenant scalability, ensuring that catalog structures, request tracking, and automation flows scale efficiently across enterprise deployments.</li></ul><h3>Contribute to a High-Performance Team</h3><ul><li>Actively participate in code reviews, ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and testable code.</li><li>Contribute to agile development processes, helping improve team efficiency and delivery speed.</li></ul><h2>What We’re Looking For</h2><h3>Required Qualifications</h3><ul><li>3+ years of professional experience in backend or full-stack software development, with a focus on structured service modeling, request processing, or automation frameworks.</li><li>Proficiency in Ruby on Rails and relational databases such as MySQL/Aurora, with experience in scalable data modeling.</li><li>Experience building high-performance, scalable APIs using GraphQL and REST.</li><li>Familiarity with software design principles and patterns, including microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed computing.</li><li>Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex system issues and optimize performance.</li><li>Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps best practices.</li><li>Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment.</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.</li></ul><h3>Preferred Qualifications</h3><ul><li>Experience working on enterprise service catalog platforms, ITSM solutions, or structured request management workflows.</li><li>Familiarity with service-oriented architectures and automation frameworks.</li><li>Experience working with observability tools (e.g., DataDog) and performance optimization methodologies.</li></ul><h3>Tech Stack You’ll Work With</h3><ul><li>Backend: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL</li><li>Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, GraphQL</li><li>DevOps &amp; Monitoring: DataDog, CI/CD tools</li><li>Cloud &amp; Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes (nice-to-have)</li></ul><h2>Why You Should Apply </h2><ul><li>Make a real impact. Your work will power thousands of businesses and millions of customer interactions worldwide.</li><li>Work with a top-tier engineering team, solving complex problems at a global scale.</li><li>Work on impactful projects. Help organizations model, automate, and streamline their internal service offerings.</li><li>Grow your career. We invest in leadership development, mentorship, and learning opportunities.</li><li>Enjoy flexibility. Hybrid-friendly culture with strong work-life balance.</li></ul><h2>Ready to Innovate?</h2>We’d love to hear from you. Apply now and help us shape the future of customer experience.Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.<h2>The intelligent heart of customer experience</h2>Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster<a href="http://www.zendesk.com/diversity-inclusion/" target="_blank"> global diversity, equity, &amp; inclusion</a> in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please<a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf" target="_blank"> click here</a>.Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to peopleandplaces@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.Please note that Zendesk can only hire candidates who are physically located and plan to work from Karnataka or Maharashtra. Please refer to the location posted on the requisition for where this role is based.Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.The intelligent heart of customer experienceZendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.<a target="_blank" href="http://www.zendesk.com/company/careers/?utm_source=other&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=job-description_Global_2025Q3">Zendesk</a> believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zendesk.com/diversity-inclusion/">global diversity, equity, &amp; inclusion</a> in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf">click here</a>. Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:peopleandplaces@zendesk.com">peopleandplaces@zendesk.com</a> with your specific accommodation request.

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