Backend Engineer at Rocketlane · Chennai · 2 - 4 years · Raised funding · Posted 22 Nov 2023

About Rocketlane
https://rocketlane.com/">Rocketlane is a SaaS startup founded in April 2020 by https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikrishnang/">Srikrishnan Ganesan, https://www.linkedin.com/in/vignesh-girishankar/">Vignesh Girishankar, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepakbsub/">Deepak Balasubramanyam. Before Rocketlane, they built a successful in-app messaging startup that was acquired by Freshworks(NASDAQ: FRSH) in 2015.
Rocketlane launched in June 2021 and washttps://www.producthunt.com/posts/rocketlane"> #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt. It has a fast-growing, global customer base, including LinkSquares, AppCues, ContractPodAI, Chargebee, parcelLab, and many more.
Rapid early traction and customer love has catapulted Rocketlane to be recognized as a Leader in the G2 Category of Client Onboarding. Rocketlane has raised $21M in capital from global VCs such as 8VC, Nexus Venture Partners, Matrix Partners India, and super angels like Gokul Rajaram and Girish Mathrubootham.
Rocketlane offers a first-of-its-kind collaborative customer onboarding platform that enables businesses to onboard their customers better, faster, and smoother. It helps speed up revenue recognition and grow NRR for the vendor and enables faster time-to-value and a delightful customer onboarding experience.
What’s the opportunity?
Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?
At Rocketlane, we’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser focused on delivering a world class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers.
If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with devops initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.
Some of the tech problems you get to work-on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.
About you:
- 3 - 7 years of experience
- Expertise in the following areas
- Java
- HTTP Protocol
- You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks / products
- Spring
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Docker
- Message brokers
- GitHub
- These non-functional areas are familiar to you
- Performance
- Debugging
- Log management
Nice to have:
- Familiarity with AWS
What’s in it for me?
- Great opportunity: Rocketlane genuinely cares about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.
- Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out thehttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=rocketlane_meet_the_team"> MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.
- Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.
- Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other sales roles you might like.
- Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.
- Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more!

About Rocketlane
About
Rocketlane is purpose-built software to accelerate and streamline implementation and customer onboarding. Watch this quick intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuYCw7bgGJ4
With its unified workspace, it’s easy to collaborate with customers and deliver projects consistently, transparently, and delightfully.
Moreover, Rocketlane helps you automate repetitive tasks and identify patterns across multiple projects to drive your execution strategy. We accelerate your time to value, improve visibility, and help you deliver 5-star experiences to your customers.
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