UI Developer

About the Role

Have you ever wanted to shape not just features, but frontend architecture and engineering culture across multiple products? As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will play a critical role in defining UI architecture, setting engineering standards, and mentoring senior engineers while still being hands-on with complex frontend systems.

You will work closely with Product, Design, Backend, and DevOps teams to build scalable, high-performance SaaS products from the ground up—often version 1—across CAW’s growing product portfolio.

This role is ideal for engineers who combine deep React expertise, systems thinking, and technical leadership.

📍 Location: Hyderabad (Office) or Remote

What Will You Do?

Technical & Architecture Ownership

• Own frontend architecture and design decisions across one or more products.
• Define and evolve scalable UI patterns, component libraries, and frontend frameworks.
• Lead initiatives for performance optimization, accessibility, and cross-browser consistency.
• Drive adoption of best practices in TypeScript, state management, testing, and observability.
• Partner with backend teams on API contracts, data flow, and system boundaries.

Product & Execution

• Translate ambiguous product requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Build pixel-perfect, buttery-smooth user interfaces for complex workflows.
• Ensure frontend systems are reliable, testable, and production-ready.
• Diagnose and resolve hard performance, scalability, and reliability issues.
• Take end-to-end ownership of critical frontend modules.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor Senior and Mid-level Frontend Engineers.
• Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and technical deep dives.
• Set quality benchmarks for frontend engineering across teams.
• Influence roadmap discussions with a strong engineering perspective.
• Be a role model for ownership, execution discipline, and technical excellence.

Experience Required

• 5-8 years of overall frontend engineering experience.
• 5+ years of deep React.js experience, building and scaling production SaaS products.
• Proven experience owning frontend systems at product or platform level.
• Experience working in fast-paced, product-driven environments.

Technical Skillset

Must Have

• Expert-level knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Deep expertise in React.js, including Hooks and modern patterns.
• Strong experience with state management (Redux, Context, or equivalent).
• Advanced proficiency in HTML, CSS, responsive design, and browser internals.
• Hands-on experience with performance profiling and optimization.
• Experience with frontend testing strategies (unit, integration, E2E).
• Strong understanding of web storage, caching, and browser lifecycle.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Sentry).
• Experience with analytics frameworks (Mixpanel, WebEngage, or similar).

Good to Have

• Experience designing or maintaining design systems / component libraries.
• Familiarity with backend technologies and API design.
• Exposure to micro-frontend or large-scale frontend architectures.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and frontend DevOps practices.

Functional & Behavioral Skills

• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Comfortable working with distributed global teams (Slack, Zoom, Google Meet).
• Ability to drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Strong bias for action, ownership, and delivery.
• Data-driven mindset with focus on productivity and quality metrics.

About CAW Studios

CAW Studios is a Product Engineering Company of 70+ engineers building and scaling SaaS products end-to-end.

Products we’ve built and run:

• Interakt
• CashFlo
• KaiPulse
• FastBar

We also power engineering for:

• Haptik
• EmailAnalytics
• GrowthZone
• Reliance General Insurance
• KWE Logistics

We are obsessed with automation, DevOps, OOPS, and SOLID principles. We don’t believe in rigid tech stacks—we believe in solving real problems well.

🌐 Website: https://www.caw.tech || https://www.knacklabs.ai/

We are looking for a skilled React Native Developer to join our mobile development team. You will be responsible for building performant, maintainable, and responsive mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms using React Native.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop cross-platform mobile applications using React Native and JavaScript
• Translate designs from Figma or other specs into responsive UI using Flexbox, StyleSheet, and semantic components like View, Text, and Image
• Work with APIs using fetch, async/await, and implement robust error handling
• Use React Hooks (useState, useEffect, useRef, etc.) and manage component state and lifecycles effectively
• Optimize performance using FlatList, SectionList, useMemo, useCallback, and memo
• Handle accessibility, dark mode, safe areas, notches, and orientation changes
• Implement animations using Animated API and LayoutAnimation
• Use tools like React DevTools, Flipper, and Chrome DevTools for debugging and performance profiling
• Integrate third-party libraries, native modules, or write custom native bridges as needed
• Handle OTA updates, app size optimizations, and splash screens for both platforms
• Set up automated testing using tools like Detox or Appium
• Integrate and manage analytics (Firebase, Mixpanel), Crashlytics, and logging
• Write clean, modular, and reusable code following patterns like atomic design or MVVM

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!

• Great knowledge of Javascript
• Minimum experience of 6 months to 1 year
• After 3 months, assured permanent job.
• Must have knowledge of Three.js 
• Energetic and eager to tackle new projects and ideas

Job Description: Senior React.js Developer

• 2+ years of relevant experience in software development building web applications
• Well acquainted with cutting edge front-end framework like React Javascript dialects like ES6.

• CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation HTML5, CSS3 and tools like Gulp/Webpack
• Strong analytical and problem- solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions.
• Enjoys and gets energized by complex problem solving and ability to push the innovation on solutions.
• Ability to work both independently and in various team settings.

• Designing, building, prototyping, developing and implementing single-page responsive web applications for our cloud platform.
• Involved in decision making for design and technical aspects for modular and component-based architectures.
• Developing application code, services, user interfaces, user experience and unit tests.
• Ensuring high performance and responsive applications with state-of-the-art user experience.
• Experimenting with new technologies and working with integrated web-applications.
• Collaborating and iterating with the Product Managers, UI/UX and Backend teams to define, design, build, extend products and features.

• You have previously worked for a minimum of 3 years in a technical environment contributing as a programmer.
• You have proven expertise in the JavaScript ecosystem and used frameworks like ReactJS, Vue. Preference would be given to reactjs.
• You have exposure to Golang, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL and Firebase.
• You must have strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

• Work with creative and business partners to understand, build, and adjust web application functionality and visual presentation to support business goals
• Develop reusable, maintainable, accessible cross-platform HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for front end web application components while adhering to web and team standards
• Working in an AT/CI/CD paradigm develops with testing in mind; authors unit tests to provide sufficient testing coverage for each developed component
• Identifies opportunities to optimize and improve front end performance
• Remain curious and current with new developments in front end web development industry

Qualifications

• 0-2 years of practical front-end web development experience in writing and testing valid, web standards-based HTML, CSS, JS
• Understanding of basics of computer science such as Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, Development Patterns
• Good experience in front end development with both technical and visual expertise
• Some exposure to agile methodologies and supporting practices, tools, and technology
• Comfortable learning new technologies, tools, development/CI/CD processes, and best practices
• Ability to collaborate effectively with teams across different locations
• Possess effective verbal communication, writing, and presentation skills
• Analytical thinker with attention to detail
• E-commerce experience is a plus
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.0 AA is a plus
• Experience with react framework a plus
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience