Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop backend components and sub-systems for large-scale platforms under guidance from senior engineers.
• Contribute to building and evolving the next-generation customer data platform.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code with a focus on scalability and performance.
• Explore and experiment with modern technologies—especially open-source frameworks—
• and build small prototypes or proof-of-concepts.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and learning while adhering to engineering best practices.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and continuous improvement of the platform.

Qualifications:

• 0–2 years of experience (or strong academic/project background) in backend development with Java.
• Good fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and basic performance optimizations.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or IT (B.E / B.Tech / M.Tech / M.S) from premier institutes.

Technical Skill Set:

• Strong aptitude and analytical skills with emphasis on problem solving and clean coding.
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks and writing testable code is a plus.
• Basic understanding of distributed systems, messaging, or streaming platforms is a bonus.

AI-Assisted Engineering (LLM-Era Skills):

• Familiarity with modern AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Opencode, or similar.
• Ability to use AI tools for code generation, refactoring, test creation, and learning new systems responsibly.
• Willingness to learn how to combine human judgment with AI assistance for high-quality engineering outcomes.

Soft Skills & Nice to Have

• Appreciation for technology and its ability to create real business value, especially in data and marketing platforms.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to execute in fast-paced environments.
• Prior internship or startup experience is a plus.

About Rocketlane

https://rocketlane.com/">Rocketlane is a SaaS startup founded in April 2020 by https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikrishnang/">Srikrishnan Ganesan, https://www.linkedin.com/in/vignesh-girishankar/">Vignesh Girishankar, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepakbsub/">Deepak Balasubramanyam. Before Rocketlane, they built a successful in-app messaging startup that was acquired by Freshworks(NASDAQ: FRSH) in 2015.

Rocketlane launched in June 2021 and washttps://www.producthunt.com/posts/rocketlane"> #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt. It has a fast-growing, global customer base, including LinkSquares, AppCues, ContractPodAI, Chargebee, parcelLab, and many more.

Rapid early traction and customer love has catapulted Rocketlane to be recognized as a Leader in the G2 Category of Client Onboarding. Rocketlane has raised $21M in capital from global VCs such as 8VC, Nexus Venture Partners, Matrix Partners India, and super angels like Gokul Rajaram and Girish Mathrubootham.

Rocketlane offers a first-of-its-kind collaborative customer onboarding platform that enables businesses to onboard their customers better, faster, and smoother. It helps speed up revenue recognition and grow NRR for the vendor and enables faster time-to-value and a delightful customer onboarding experience.

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend 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 product again, and looking for an ambitious backend 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 new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with devops initiatives, and showcasing 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 backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization. 

About you:

• 3 - 7 years of experience
• Expertise in the following areas
• Java
• HTTP Protocol
• You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks / products
• Spring
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Docker
• Message brokers
• GitHub
• These non-functional areas are familiar to you
• Performance 
• Debugging
• Log management

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with AWS

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 stipend, flexible leave policy, and more! 

Java Developers (4-5 positions)

What qualities are we looking for?

• 3 – 8 years of experience in building web applications
• Excellent command over Data Structures & Algorithms
• Exceptional coding skills in an Object-Oriented programming language (Java)
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Technical Requirements:

• Working experience on JAVA, Spring Boot. (building web services)
• Working experience in building microservices and distributed systems.
• Working experience on using messaging queues RabbitMQ/Kafka is a plus.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery,  Angular 5+)
• Excellent knowledge and programming skills in data structures, algorithms.
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB)
• Proficiency with Git

As a Senior Software Engineer - I,you'll take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams. As SSE - I, you could expect to: 

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which includes: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components. 
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
• Perform design and code reviews
• Perform technical feasibility and trade off studies & guides others to perform these studies
• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to outage
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
• Actively mentor and develop junior developers in all software development practices
• Participate in the hiring process (referrals, interviews, attending recruiting events or writing blogs)
• Onboard and mentors new team members, helps shape the culture of the team
• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Minimum Requirements: 

• A minimum of 4 years of relevant software development experience