Front-End Architect

Job Title : Lead Web Developer / Frontend Engineer

Experience Required : 10+ Years

Location : Bangalore (Hybrid – 3 Days Work From Office)

Work Timings : 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM IST

Notice Period : Immediate or Up to 30 Days (Preferred)

Work Mode : Hybrid

Interview Mode : Face-to-Face mandatory (for Round 2)

Role Overview :

We are hiring a Lead Frontend Engineer with 10+ Years of experience to drive the development of scalable, modern, and high-performance web applications.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on React.js, micro-frontends, and Backend for Frontend (BFF) architecture, requiring both coding expertise and team leadership skills.

Mandatory Skills :

React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, micro-frontend architecture, Backend for Frontend (BFF), Webpack, Jenkins (CI/CD), GCP, RDBMS/SQL, Git, and team leadership.

Core Responsibilities :

• Design and develop cloud-based web applications using React.js, HTML, CSS.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers and backend engineers to implement seamless user experiences.
• Lead and mentor a team of frontend developers.
• Write clean, well-documented, scalable code using modern JavaScript/TypeScript practices.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, deploy applications to CDNs.
• Integrate with GCP services, optimize front-end performance.
• Stay updated with modern frontend technologies and design patterns.
• Use Git for version control and collaborative workflows.
• Implement JavaScript libraries for web analytics and performance monitoring.

Key Requirements :

• 10+ Years of experience as a frontend/web developer.
• Strong proficiency in React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
• Experience with micro-frontend architecture and Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns.
• Proficiency in frontend design frameworks and libraries (jQuery, Node.js).
• Strong understanding of build tools like Webpack, CI/CD using Jenkins.
• Experience with GCP and deploying to CDNs.
• Solid experience in RDBMS, SQL.
• Familiarity with Git and agile development practices.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or a related field.

Nice to Have :

• Experience with Node.js.
• Previous experience working with web analytics frameworks.
• Exposure to JavaScript observability tools.

Interview Process :

1. Round 1 : Online Technical Interview (via Geektrust – 1 Hour)

2. Round 2 : Face-to-Face Interview with the Indian team in Bangalore (3 Hours – Mandatory)

3. Round 3 : Online Interview with CEO (30 Minutes)

Important Notes :

• Face-to-face interview in Bangalore is mandatory for Round 2.
• Preference given to candidates currently in Bangalore or willing to travel for interviews.
• Remote applicants who cannot attend the in-person round will not be considered.

Responsibilities

• Interact closely with design, product, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces across multiple devices.
• Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating excellent interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules and maintainability of the code.
• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.
• Review and optimize the app usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.
• Review and Optimize application usage, by monitoring key metrics, for maximum speed and scalability
• Mentoring and guiding the team members.
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience as a web developer, UI developer, Angular Developer or front-end engineer.
• Sound knowledge in HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
• Familiar with UI layouts, SASS, Bootstrap, and the CSS GRID system
• Proficient with Typescript (Angular 2 & above)
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system.
• Passionate to create good design and usability
• A team player with excellent communication skills

About company

It is a fast-growing SaaS startup in the customer onboarding category and has raised $21M in capital (https://twitter.com/RocketlaneHQ/status/1483821563195850753">we rapped about it!) from global VCs such as 8VC, Nexus Venture Partners, Matrix Partners India, and super angels like Gokul Rajaram and Girish Mathrubootham.

Thanks to the rapid early traction and customer love the product has garnered globally from the likes of LinkSquares, AppCues, ContractPodAI, Chargebee, parcelLab, etc., we have been recognized as a Leader in the Client Onboarding category on G2 within six months of product launch.

With a mission to deliver chaos-free, consistent, accelerated, and delightful customer journeys through its purpose-built software the company was founded in April 2020 by second-time entrepreneur trio - Srikrishnan, Vignesh, and Deepak. Previously, the trio built a successful in-app messaging startup that was acquired by Freshworks (NASDAQ: FRSH) in 2015.

We became the https://www.producthunt.com/posts/rocketlane"> #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt on the day we launched it. We are now building a global and diverse workplace that will empower passionate problem-solvers to innovate, collaborate, do their best work, and see the next phase of hyper-growth together!

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a front-end 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”?

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 new product again, and looking for an ambitious front-end 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 well structured UI components, executing on pixel perfect design, paying great attention to every little interaction detail, and doing 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 front-end developer would include building real-time collaboration experiences across our product, building live document editing and modern spreadsheet experiences from scratch, creating flexible new Kanban-style views of work tasks, and crafting cool new UI components and interactions that we will use across our product.

About you:

• Knowledge in the following areas
  • React
  • SPA Framework patterns
• Hands-on experience in HTML, CSS, SASS & Object Oriented Javascript
• Worked with features provided by browsers (Caching / Storage / Compatibility etc )
  
  

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with AWS
• Experience with startups or early stage teams
• Knowledge of module bundlers like Webpack

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 the https://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 salary, flexible leave policy, and more!

We're seeking a skilled Front-end Lead Engineer to lead an ongoing production-ready enterprise project and contribute to code while leading the frontend team. If you're adept at creating user-friendly products and eager to work with cutting-edge tech in a growing company, we want to hear from you. We value an entrepreneurial mindset and passion for technology in our team members.

Experience: 5+ Year

Working Time: 12.30 PM to 9.30 PM

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including design, engineering & QA, to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Participate in planning and decision-making processes related to technical architecture, design, and implementation.
• Lead and mentor the Front-end (FE) team, providing technical guidance, coaching, and support.
• Oversee the deployment of frontend applications, coordinating with teams as necessary.
• Drive agile development practices within the FE team, ensuring efficient project delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in leading the front-end development team.
• Proven experience in frontend development, with expertise in ReactJS, NextJS, MaterialUI, and React Query.
• Proficient in TypeScript development, skilled in building type-safe applications and leveraging TypeScript configurations for enhanced development efficiency.
• Proven leadership skills, with the ability to lead and mentor a diverse team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Gain real-world experience in corporate functioning.
• Learn to collaborate with diverse teams and meet deadlines in a professional environment.
• Access various learning and development programs to explore your passion.
• Work in a fast-paced, rapidly expanding tech team undergoing a revamp, with exposure to advanced technology and tools relevant to your role

JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Frontend Engineer (React)

About us-

It is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services

online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogues (catalogs) right from a

smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as

Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital. We is currently powering over 3.7 M ecommerce stores built by indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.We are looking for a full-stack developer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.

DESCRIPTION-

We are looking for a great Frontend developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

RESPONSIBILITIES-

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.

REQUIREMENTS-

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and sockets
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM,etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools
• Experience with PWAs and React Native is a huge plus

What you need to have:

Key Responsibilities

• Design and Build complicated Workflow
• Understanding the user persona and deliver slick experience
• Experience in JavaScript (ReactJS / Redux) React Native, HTML, CSS, JQuery, HTTP
• Strong understating of XML, JSON, DOM, and w3c standards
• Providing technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle; from concept development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support
• Be an Interface with Stockholder sand architects to create technology specifications from business requirements for one or more modules within the project
• Responsible to prepare the technical design of the components within the module (one or more of client/web presentation tier, server tier, data access and data model, integration component, package function customization)
• Proficient in articulating the pros and cons of using a certain technology stack or component or design pattern versus another to the clients and project team and drives selection of technologies, designs to come up with the optimal architecture
• Drives the performance tuning, re-design and re-factoring for a module
• Contributes to designing and implementing the build, release process as well as system configuration and deployment characteristics of the application
• Implements (hands-on) the module components based on prevailing Framework and Open-source standards & its best practices.
• Mentors the team (people working on the module and other project team members) on technology concepts and best practices for design, implementation and other processes

• Expertise in Javascript, JQuery, W3 CSS, CSS3, HTML5
• Deep understanding of client-side, frameworks such as React.js, Redux & Hooks
• Performance optimization techniques for the web and mobile web
• Expertise in Integrating and maintaining RESTful Web-Services
• Good understanding of AJAX, asynchronous request handling, partial page updates
• Good understanding of Virtual DOM, Data structure, and data manipulation
• Deep understanding of UX principles & building GUI
• Basic knowledge of version control system like Git / Mercurial / Bitbucket
• Writes clean, readable, and maintainable code

Industry:

Retail / E-commerce Functional

Area: IT Software - eCommerce, Internet Technologies Role Category: Programming & Design

Role: Application Programmer

Employment Type: Permanent Job,

If you are looking to be part of the early-stage start-up team that is charting the course and solving a key pain point for the CXO, this opportunity is for you. The opportunity will provide you join a company where you can contribute to all aspects of the product definition, product building and solving some key challenges.

• Architect solutions and execution through hands-on development, quality-assurance, and prototyping 
• Collaborate with a UX/UI designers and other front-end and middle-tier engineers to design, prototype, and build user interface for complex cloud-based product 
• Participate in complete development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing and production release 
• Develop and maintain a scalable web and responsive applications 
• Exhibit Devops mindset – Work on continuous integration, including provisioning, deployment, testing, and version control of the software 
• Mentor new software developers and junior engineers

• Passionate engineer with 5 – 8 years of hands-on experience of developing next-generation user interface with high quality and performance 
• Strong desire to learn & evaluate new libraries/frameworks, and share knowledge with others 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile development environment 
• Sound knowledge of front end standards and practices 
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code 
• Knowledge of Redux, React.js and its core principles 
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, JSON, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model 
• Experience with popular JS frameworks and libraries (React, Angular, JQuery, Ember, Babel, Webpack etc.) 
• Experience of building Single-page Web Apps 
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
• Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing 
• Proficient with debugging and testing tools to troubleshoot and optimize the UI 
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design and programming concepts, core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises

Good to have

• Full-stack development experience 
• Prior Startup Experience 
• Prior experience in developing real-time web applications 
• Experience with continuous deployment 
• Proficiency with Git/Github 
• Experience with GraphQL

Success Factors

• Start-up mindset 
• Good problem solving abilities 
• ‘Can-do’ attitude 
• Prior experience of working with globally distributed teams is an added advantage 
• Work with minimal supervision 
• Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team

Our team is looking for fast-moving engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset. As a software engineer, you will help grow the platform by identifying new features, products, and business opportunities. You will write and own scalable production-grade code across the platform in collaboration with the small, close-knit and dedicated global development team.

We keep cloud-native concepts close to our heart whenever we design any software component and you will have exciting opportunities to work on new software frameworks, modern tech stack and cloud-native applications using latest cloud technologies.

If you want to feel and see that your contributions matter, have a strong desire to work for an early-stage startup and if you love working in a dynamic, agile, continually improving environment and most importantly, work with good people, come talk to us. If you are excited about the opportunity to build a cool new Cyber Security SaaS product ground-up then lets talk!!