Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Link to apply - https://tally.so/r/wv0lEA

Key Responsibilities:

1. Software Development:

• Design, implement, and optimise clean, scalable, and reliable code across [backend/frontend/full-stack] systems.
• Contribute to the development of micro services, APIs, or UI components as per the project requirements.

1. System Architecture:

• Collaborate and design and enhance system architecture.
• Analyse and identify opportunities for performance improvements and scalability.

1. Code Reviews and Mentorship:

• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
• Mentor and support junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

1. Agile Collaboration:

• Work within an Agile/Scrum framework, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Carbon Science, Designer, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.

1. Problem-Solving:

• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues in production and development environments.
• Contribute to incident management and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.

1. Continuous Improvement:

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Propose and implement improvements to existing codebases, tools, and development processes.

Qualifications:

Must-Have:

• Experience: 2–5 years of professional software development experience in [specify languages/tools, e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.].
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Technical Skills:
• Strong proficiency in [programming languages/frameworks/tools].
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of version control tools (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with containerisation (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

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 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 salary, flexible leave policy, and more! 

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

Skills:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Good Experience in Next.js
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with Project Manager or Project Consultant to develop front end of mobile and web application
• Delivering a complete front-end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Collaborate with the stakeholders, the users, the build team and other development partners to implement state-of-the-art user experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and ship new features
• Participate actively in discussions, presentations and decisions about front end development, web application, mobile app etc.
• Act as the impulse by providing clear guidance to the team’s questions during implementation phases
• Implement new technologies to maximize application performance
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

KEY COMPETENCIES & SKILLS:

• Strong object-oriented JavaScript
• Flat box, material design concepts
• AngularJS, MVC frameworks – Angular
• CSS precompilers like Sass and LESS
• Skills in one or more chosen frameworks/libraries like jQuery or Bootstrap
• AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
• HTML 5, CSS Modules, Web pack, Babel, npm
• jQuery, jQueryUI, RequireJS, doT.js (Templating Engine)
• Able to integrate existing API (REST)
• Understanding of java web application technology stack (core Java, spring core, Spring MVC, Hibernate, REST)
• Git/GitHub, Continuous integration using maven & Jenkins
• Integrate applications with network systems, servers and databases.
• Troubleshoot problems with application development and use
• Excellent conceptual, and critical thinking capabilities
• Self-directed and self-motivated with the ability to take charge or play a supporting role
• Strong understanding of product development
• Clear written and verbal communications skills (English), including presentation skill
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) is required.

Senior React JS Developer

Responsibilities:

Translate Business requirements into Technical Requirements and conceptualize solution by breaking it up into logical units of work.

Plan and execute product roadmap with product manager and other stakeholders.

Develop and implement integration solution with high quality, exception handling and low maintenance in accordance with the project timeline, adherence to global standards/principles, design standards

Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining the project during the transition to production by working closely with production support team during production release and troubleshooting production issues

Responsible for effectively communicating the plan, status and updates to stakeholders and scrum team

Proactively raise issues to Product Owner and Scrum leads when necessary

Independently assess and represent development team - covering all aspects of technical feasibility, complexity and timelines during project / program review meetings.

Lead , manage , mentor team of developers.

Design and build new features, simplify existing services, and scale our systems as we rapidly grow and evolve

Create reusable patterns that improve the consistency of the codebase

Collaborate with your engineering teammates through planning, pairing, testing, reviewing and delivery of the features that you build

Work with the product team to translate powerful ideas into everyday business value

Write sustainable, testable, high-quality, high-performance code

What Makes You a Great Fit

6+ years of relevant front-end development experience writing modular / reusable / Object Oriented / functional Javascript code.

At least 5 years of working experience on React JS framework

Firm grasp of JavaScript (or Typescript) and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax

Strong expertise with HTML5, CSS3  (with media queries) and writing cross-browser compatible code

Grid system understanding

CSS preprocessor experience (SASS or LESS), Responsive design, Accessibility

Familiarity with code versioning tool like GitHub.

Experience with RESTful services

A strong, demonstrable portfolio of past web applications including websites.

Self-motivated, fast learner with attention to detail and quality

Excellent diagnostic, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Required Skills:

6+ Years of experience

Should be able to work independently and must be hands on in development.

Should be able to take a problem and produce an architectural pattern plus a proof of concept utilising best practices when it comes to developing enterprise integration software.

Should have excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Strong proficiency with Spring Boot, Microservices, Spring MVC, Coding and Spring Integration.

Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and asynchronous messaging patterns is required.

Experience with working with process modelling software is a nice to have.

Experience in working with rule based systems is a nice to have.

Strong fundamentals in object oriented programming is a must have.

Experience in working with at least one relational and one no sql database is preferred.

Strong experience in working and designing message structures using xml and json.

Strong knowledge of SDLC Lifecycle Process and Agile Methodology.

Experience in BPMN would be added advantage.

Experience in working with security protocol (e.g. TLS, OAuth) and understands security in development.

Experience with containerization using Docker, orchestration using Kubernetes, Continuous Integration/Delivery tools - Jenkins, Maven, GIT.

Experience in Messaging with MQ based Messaging Systems.

Communication:

Should be able to communicate effectively with product team members, clients and stakeholders.

Clarifies and communicates product objectives and problem solving.

In this role you will

• Be a part of a small UI team and will work closely with the UXdesigner and product manager to shape the product design.
• Build web UI components for a cloud-native SaaS product.
• Drive clear requirements for the backend APIs working closely withthe backend engineers.
• Focus on quality and velocity by developing appropriate tests.

Requirements

• Highly motivated self-starter with a builder’s mindset.
• 5+ years of web UI development experience.
• Highly skilled in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Deep knowledge and experience of REST APIs.

Preferred: experience with frameworks such as React

Preferred: full stack development experience