Senior UI Frontend Developer

What does the role look like?

Software Development Engineers FE will be responsible to participate in all stages of the software product development life cycle. This will include analyzing system and user requirements, designing software flowcharts, creating user interfacing applications (Web Or Mobile) , troubleshooting bugs, and running tests to improve system functionality.
An ideal candidate would be someone who has proficiency in Flutter and JavaScript frameworks, good analytical skills, the ability to anticipate issues and frame remedial actions, and excellent teamwork skills.

What will you be doing?
● Write simple, efficient, and maintainable code.
● Design, develop, scale and maintain User Application written in JS or Dart.
● Manage individual priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
● Validating the functionality and security of the application.
● Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
● Ensuring best coding standards and practices to improve and maintain quality.
● Meeting with the engineering and product team to discuss project definitions and goals.

What will you need ?
● Bachelor/Master degree in CS or related field from a reputed college
● Sound knowledge of JavaScript or Flutter technologies.
● Solid grip on the programming basics like DS and algorithms, OOPS.
● Understanding & experience with restful APIs and microservice architecture
● Prior experience in start-ups or health-tech will be a plus

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! 

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop new user-facing features, optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs,
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Freshers, thanks for your interest, but this is not the right role for you

Desired Candidate Profile

• 2-10 years experience on UI design, creative flair
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, such as AngularJS, ReactJS , KnockoutJS, BackboneJS etc.,
• Proficient understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, AJAX and Restful API calls
• Proficient understanding of Bootstrap and web markup, including HTML5, CSS3. Server-side CSS pre-processing platforms such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of responsiveness and cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Basic understanding of image authoring tools such as Gimp, PhotoShop etc
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / Mercurial / SVN

Perks and Benefits

• Health insurance
• A learning environment
• Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies
• Exposure to key customers in India and abroad
• Work closely with senior leadership that has already developed world class products

• Deep understanding of JS basics and advanced features (ES6) (5+ years)
• Deep understanding of basic and advanced HTML5 / CSS3 features (5+ years)
• Hands on experience developing scalable applications using React JS (preferably using functional components) (2+ years)
• Proficiency in using hooks based approach in react development
• Hands on experience developing UI components using Material UI for React JS (2+ years)
• Experience with any of the state management libraries for React JS – Redux, Context API, Mobx etc
• Experience with unit testing using Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library etc
• Experience with responsive design, progressive web apps and accessibility.
• Knowledge about platform tools such as NPM, Git command line tool and AWS.

• Contribute to front-end development of web applications
• Handle production incidents
• Working closely with stakeholders to ensure a smooth user experience
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code

Job Requirements:

• 2+ years experience in front-end web development is required
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Extensive experience in working with HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap and JavaScript
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, etc)
• Experience in developing an application with cross-browser compatibility in IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, including tablets, phone, etc 

**About Company**
SleepyCat is India's First Mattress-In-A-Box brand! We deliver luxury mattresses, at a fraction of the usual cost, straight from our factory to your doorstep in an easy-to-carry package. 
In sleepycat we constantly thrive to make our products and customer experience better using technology.

**About Role**
We are currently looking out for a frontend developer who is motivated to learn and work on challenging projects. You should have a product mindset with great technical skills. In sleepycat we promote new and fresh ideas which can directly or indirectly help customer experience and sales. Sleepycat provides to you platform to bring your thoughts into action and implement them.

Technical skills required (expertise in atleast two of these): Javascript, CSS, PHP

**Personal and Domain Growth Initiatives**
1. In SleepyCat we promote career growth. Once you are settled and have completely owned the system you are hired for, you have the freedom to pick some other technologies inside SC. You will be given time to learn and contribute. Right now we have Web Development (PHP/JS), ReactJS and Ruby on Rails. So you have the freedom to utilize 30% of your time on any of these languages if you wish to and remaining 70% on your primary domain.
2. We also promote self-growth. You can utilize 10% of your time to learn any skill you want and we will help you with that. It is not restricted to the tech domain, could be anything from marketing to sales to personality development.

**Interview Process Details**
***Technical Round 1: Development Knowledge Round***
We will test your skills in 3 domains
understanding an existing written code and ability to make changes
coding a logical question to test basic coding skills
ability to think of test cases to write a full proof code
***Technical Round 2: Coding Round***
45 minutes coding round where you will be required to code live sharing your screen. On the spot problem will be given.

**Additional details**
Website: https://sleepycat.in/
Work Culture: 6 days(All Saturday half day)
Office Location: 91Springboard, Kalina, Mumbai
Employee Strength: 40+ Employees
Founded: 2017
Funding: $1.6 Million

Read about Sleepycat and funding on Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sleepycat
Learn what employees say about Sleepycat on Glassdoor: https://tinyurl.com/r9oqfkl
Checkout what people say about SleepyCat products on Google: https://tinyurl.com/rco3nqr