Frontend Lead Engineer

Position: Front-end developer ( Mobile App)

Location: Bangalore

About us

RockED is a fast-growing EdTech company building a microlearning platform that delivers byte-sized, engaging content to learners on their mobile devices. Headquartered in Florida, with our R&D team based in Bangalore, we are focused on creating intuitive, learner-first experiences through thoughtful design and strong engineering.

Your Impact

We are looking for a skilled Frontend Developer to join our Engineering team in Bangalore. You’ll be responsible for building high-quality, scalable, and user-friendly interfaces for our mobile-first platform using JavaScript and React Native.

• Develop and maintain scalable, high-performance frontend applications using JavaScript and React Native
• Translate product requirements and UI/UX designs into clean, efficient, and reusable code
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers
• Optimize applications for performance, reliability, and responsiveness
• Write well-structured, testable, and maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices
• Stay updated with evolving AI technologies and encourage the team to leverage AI tools effectively to improve development efficiency and innovation.

What skills do you need?

• Hands-on experience in frontend mobile application development
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and React Native
• Experience building and shipping mobile applications (Android/iOS)
• Solid understanding of frontend architecture, performance optimization, and state management
• Familiarity with REST APIs and integration with backend services
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment
• Ability to think strategically when designing systems—not just how to build, but why

Why choose a career at RockED?

• Build from Day One: Work in small, fast-moving teams solving real problems and building
• products from the ground up.
• Learn from Industry Leaders: Collaborate directly with leaders who’ve held senior roles at global
• Companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Walmart, and more.
• AI Expoure: We encourage engineers to leverage AI tools and emerging technologies to improve
• productivity, experimentation, and innovation.
• Global Exposure: Be part of a diverse, high-calibre team working closely across the US and India.
• People-First Benefits: Health insurance coverage for you and your family—fully sponsored by RockED.

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

React.js, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript
Client side scripting
Experience in responsive design, PWA, asynchronous request handling, complex front end displays like flowchart, graphs etc.
Knowledge of JSON/XML
Knowledge of Web Fundamentals, Browser Working, REST API
State Management with Redux
Latest APIs of HTML5

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Minimum 3-5 years of Experience in Java Backend development. 
• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science. 
• Good knowledge/experience in Data structure, Algorithms. 
• Proficiency with Programming Language: Java 1.8 and above (1.8 V must), J2EE. 
• Proficiency with Framework: Spring Stack (Security, Web MVC, REST), Hibernate, JMS. 

• Strong knowledge in any one Relational Databases (Mysql / Oracle / SQL Server). 
• Strong experience in Web services (SOAP and RESTFUL). 
• Tools & Utilities: STS / Eclipse / IntelliJ / NetBeans.Web/Application Server: Jboss. 
• Should have expertise in Design Patterns, Transactions, Multithreading concepts 
• Proficiency in Build Cycle management (Maven, Jenkins, Scripting). 

• Familiarity with Deployment technologies like Docker, Rancher and Virtual machines. 
• Familiarity with Agile Development processes. 
• Exposure to Spring Integration batch knowledge, OAuth2 authentication 
• Excellent verbal communication skills. 
• Good problem-solving skills with attention to detail. 

• Able to create functional, attractive applications that perfectly meet the needs of the user. 

1. Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code
2. Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques
3. Experience with RESTful services
4. Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp
5. Expert in Angular, TypeScript, Angular Material and Server Side Rendering (SSR)
6. Hand on and implements complex Angular applications, directives, controllers, services and components, create the same from scratch
7. Experience in Third Party integrations like Payment Gateway, Facebook, Gmail and any other Google APIs
8. Knowledge of state management tools such, NgRx, Redux

1. Develop User interfaces for Modern Rich Internet Applications with the latest Front End Technologies Perform product analysis and development tasks of increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis
2. Writing tested and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
3. Make design and technical decisions for Angular projects
4. Ensuring high performance

•  6+ years of web UI development experience including 4+ years of deep, hands on experience in building robust, highly reusable and responsive web applications using HTML, CSS3, SVG, React, Redux, Thunk ecosystem
• Great problem-solving skills with solid data structures and algorithms knowledge
• Strong ability to translate the design/wireframes into reusable micro components
• Experience of leading, coaching and mentoring junior developers with good delegation and time-management skills
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles and has extensively worked with Redux, Thunk, Axios etc
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Oauth2 etc
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• A knack for perfection, benchmarking and optimization
• Writing and maintaining batch jobs to streamline processes (Shell, Perl etc).
• Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
• Worked with WebSocket, Push notifications etc
• Experience working with local-storage, cookies etc
• Proficient understanding of CORS issues and ways to work with such issues.
• Proficient understanding of social network APIs.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Inclined to take ownership of tasks and to ship highly polished products with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• BE/BTech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience