UI Developer /Lead

About company

It 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.

We 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”?

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 the https://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!

We are a B2B SaaS company that is re-imagining how companies use sales incentives to motivate their employees. We believe great results are only achieved when people are motivated - and our product is nothing but an extension of that philosophy.

On a more day-to-day level, our product takes away the ambiguity and grunt-work behind manual sales incentive calculation, and allows companies to experiment with incentive plans that actually work for every employee - and not just top performers. We are a team of experienced founders who between them have built and sold software products pretty much all across the globe. We are backed by some of the best angels and institutional investors in India - and are growing at breakneck speed.

We are seeking a skilled React JS Developer for a three-month contract to join our dynamic team. You will be responsible for developing and implementing user interface components using React.js concepts and workflows such as Redux, Flux, and Webpack. The ideal candidate should have proficient knowledge of React tools, excellent troubleshooting skills, and the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new user-facing features using React.js.
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Past Intership with React.js and its core principles.
• Usage experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

About Us

GradRight is an Ed-fintech startup focused on global higher education. We are committed to enabling global youth aspirations by helping students find the "right education" at the "right cost". We aim to assist students in discovering their best fit universities and funding plans.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK. Since September 2020, we have received over US$500 million in loan requests and successfully secured over US$75 million in loan approvals for more than 1600 students.

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll build beautiful front-end experiences and enable flexible customer journeys while focusing on an international audience.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead design discussions and decisions around building a scalable and modular front-end architecture
2. Write clean and modular code
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as an SDE, with at least 2 years experience leading teams
2. Strong experience with vue.js
3. Able to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
4. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
5. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
6. Passion for solving complex problems
7. Experience with team management
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience with GraphQL and micro-frontend architectures
2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Skills:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• 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)

-          Strong programming skills in JavaScript

-          Experience with ReactJS

-          Experience with frontend frameworks like bootstrap, Jquery

-          Object Oriented concepts

-          Good knowledge in HTML5, CSS, CSS3

-          Experience in working with RESTful APIS

-          Experience with HTTP, HTTPS and WebSockets

-          Building responsive design

-          Knowledge in version control- Git, Subversion

-          Good problem-solving skills 

● B.Tech/M.Tech degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject 

● Proven hands-on Software Development experience 

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript and the JavaScript object model is a must. 

● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles 

● Prior experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux) 

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs 

● Familiarity with HTML / HTML5 CSS/CSS3/ Bootstrap 

● Mobile app development experience with Flutter/Dart is a big plus; or willingness to learn these technologies. 

● Experience with MySQL is a plus. 

● Preferably prior experience in working in a start-up.

Responsibilities :

• Manage product milestones, deployment cycles & overall product roadmap 
• Understanding of the threading limitations of AngularJs, reactjs, and multi-process architecture 
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies like AWS 
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns 
• Sound knowledge of Databases Postgres is a must including Performance Tuning, Designing and optimized Postgres databases and queries 
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audience 
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application 
• At least 3-5 years of experience in consumer product engineering and architecture, with proven track record of architect impactful products in the internal CRMand consumer domain. 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git 
• Ship great products under stringent deadlines and in the face of ambiguous requirements and changing business priorities 
• Maintain Code Quality, Implement Standards & improve overall understanding

What lands you in this role :

• Exceptional leadership skills and proven experience in shaping team culture
• Strong grasp of full-stack networking, scalable web back-end, and all genres of platforms
• Must have Bachelor degree in computer science from a Tier-1 College
• Multitasking & problem solving approach

We are looking for a skilled React.js Developer to join our front-end development team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing user interface components using React.js concepts and workflows such as Redux, Flux, and Webpack. You will also be responsible for profiling and improving front-end performance and documenting our front-end codebase.

To ensure success as a React.js Developer, you should have in-depth knowledge of JavaScript and React concepts, excellent front-end coding skills, and a good understanding of progressive web applications. Ultimately, a top-class React.js Developer should be able to design and build modern user interface components to enhance application performance.