Frontend Developer (Angular)

Location: Fully remote 

Company: StrategyConnect - Dubai based startup backed by Techstars 

As a Front-end Developer, you will be responsible for building user-friendly, responsive, and visually appealing web applications. You will work closely with our design team and senior developers to create high-quality web applications using modern front-end technologies such as React. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Build user-friendly, responsive, and visually appealing web applications using React, NodeJs and Tailwind. 
• Collaborate with the design team to turn mockups into pixel-perfect web applications. 
• Implement designs and create reusable UI components using React and Tailwind. 
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. 
• Debug and troubleshoot issues as they arise. 
• Ensure the application is optimized for performance, scalability, and usability. 
• Continuously learn and keep up-to-date with the latest front-end development trends and technologies. 

Requirements: 

• Strong proficiency in React, NextJS, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 
• Experience with modern front-end development tools such as Webpack, Babel, and Git. 
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies. 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 
• Ability to work collaboratively in a remote team environment. 
• Excellent communication skills in English. 

If you are passionate about front-end development, have a strong focus on React, and want to work with a dynamic team of talented individuals, please apply to this exciting Front-end Developer position today! 

About Rocketlane

Rockeltane 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.

Rocketlane 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”?

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 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 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 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! 

Our frontend (React) team is passionate about React Technology and we are working on a few world-class products which have their roots and frontend in React Technology along with Redux, web-hooks, and Reducers. Keeping performance, scalability, usability, and user acceptance in mind, we are looking for a smart frontend engineer that has experience developing a variety of Web Applications using React Technology. (Along with strong frontend expertise, needs a good understanding of how frontend applications work in different browsers and have a mobile responsive design)

Basic roles and responsibilities are mentioned for the engineer at our team:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• 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.
• Good understanding of async functions and their concepts.
• Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known ReactJS workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• A Commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

• Developing new user-facing features using ReactJS
• Familiarity with modern front-end builds pipelines and tools.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Thorough understanding of ReactJS and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows. (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and Oauth.
• Good knowledge of CSS and other latest frameworks like a tailwind CSS / Bootstrap.

• Experience developing highly scalable Web applications.
• Knowledge of Media Queries and CSS via useful frameworks.
• Strong experience with React frameworks with components like Redux, Flux, Webhooks.
• Good knowledge of code versioning (git / Github)
• Good experience with code deployment on servers like Ubuntu, Linux systems.
• In-depth knowledge of designing and developing software in distributed architectures for multi-tier applications
• Basic understanding of docker to work with different major versions of Node js and database release(Postgres, MySQL, etc)
• Good knowledge to write and train the team to write unit test cases for the application code.

• You would be knowing how to do a basic code review of team and junior NodeJS engineers.

• Experience with deployment and CI/CD is a plus!
• Have worked with Testing libraries
• Good Verbal and Written communication Skills.

As a Mid Level Front-End Developer, you will:

Create well-designed, documented, and tested front end solutions using modern JavaScript frameworks, such as React and Redux, CSS-in-JS, Styled Components, etc.

Collaborate with clients, project managers, UX designers, and other developers to gain a thorough understanding of project requirements within agreed-upon scope and architecture designs

Translate wireframes into fully functional user interfaces and proactively address edge case scenarios

Collaborate with back-end developers to design REST APIs and request/response schemas

Perform code reviews with constructive feedback

Promote clean code, best practices, and consistent design patterns across the team

Write infrastructure as code and automated deployment scripts for customer delivery

Provide development estimates from granular tasks to comprehensive projects/applications

Lead and present technical discussions to clients, including knowledge transfers

Take on additional responsibilities over time and become a key contributor for scaling team size

• Design, develop and manage multiple secure and reliable web applications that process and manage transactions.
• Collaborate with UI/UX and Research teams to further improve current systems.
• Adapt technical trends in web applications to support product quality.
• Manage product compatibility across devices.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new team mates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Skills & Requirements

• At least 1 year of experience working in frontend for desktop and mobile web.
• Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript plus experience with a modern framework (ReactJS is preferred).
• Well-versed in other non-vanilla languages (ex. TypeScript)
• Understanding of GraphQL APIs.
• Possess a deep understanding of basic security aspects on the frontend and how to mitigate them
• Deep understanding of web technologies in various mobile systems
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience working with cybersecurity and compliance

Your primary focus will be developing web applications and components. You'll implement them with the React.js framework, following generally accepted practices and workflows. You will ensure that you produce robust, secure, modular, and maintainable code. You will coordinate with other team members, including backend developers and UX/UI designers. Your commitment to team collaboration, good communication, and a quality product is crucial.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js and workflows like Redux.
2. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
3. Translating designs and wireframes in high-quality code.
4. Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
5. Integrating APIs for complete functionality.
6. Write technical documentation.

Responsibilities include:

1. Experience developing desktop and mobile applications for a minimum of 2 years.

2. Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

3. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

4. Should have experience with Redux and respective middlewares (eg. redux-thunk or redux-saga)

5. Familiarity with RESTful APIs

6. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

7. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

8. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

9. Knowledge of D3.js would be plus

Skills Required: HTML/CSS, Javascript, React.js, Redux.

Required Experience: 2 - 4 year of experience