UI Lead - React.js

Job description - React Developer Responsibilities: - Develop high quality Javascript (ES6) code for our React applications. - Coordinate with backend engineers to establish JSON-based APIs. - Optimize application for maximum speed and compatibility. - Integrating third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts - Multitask seamlessly, always maintaining a positive attitude and a client-first mentality - Incorporate engineering best practices, methodologies & standards in all deliverables - Pay close attention to details and be able to follow specifications and mockups (pixel perfect). - Making recommendations to address UI/UX issues. Requirement: - Must have good understanding in web application development - Strong experience in React, JavaScript, ES6, CSS3. - Good experience with React or React Native and Redux. - Experience building complex features and interfaces for React applications. - Familiarity with RESTful APIs. - Experience with version control tools (Git), NPM- - Deep understanding of data structures, data flow, Ajax and CRUD. - Solid knowledge of web app development practices. - Excellent spoken and written English. Experience : 2+years of experience Requirement : Immediate Joinee to 30 days

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 looking for a Frontend UI Developer to translate UI/UX designs and/or wireframes into User Interfaces using HTML, CSS, Javascript and jquery. He/ she will be responsible for a pixel-perfect conversion of the defined layout. They need to be competent with responsive coding/adaptation to ensure the correct rendering of the design when viewed on various formats including web, mobile, etc. The Front-end coding resource also needs to be familiar with design conventions and best practices and needs to follow the same to write easily scalable code

• Designing, developing, and testing UI for mobile and web applications
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Accurately translate user and business needs into functional frontend code.
• Developing new user-facing features using React and redux
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code with proper standards.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs.
• Added Advantage: Knowledge and experience in Cloud Computing

• Engineering experience with a proven track record of building high performance consumer web applications or services
  
• Good exposure in front end ui frameworks like reactjs and angularJS
  
• Very good analytical and problem solving skills
  
• Building desktop and mobile web applications

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer with 4+ years of experience who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality products are very important.

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

● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

● Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux, Redux, or Redux Saga)

● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript ● Knowledge of Node.js is considered a big plus

● Knowledge of D3.js is considered a plus

● You are always mindful of quality attributes like maintainability, performance, security, scalability, usability, and testability. As a result, you have successfully contributed to the architecture and UI/UX proposals and decisions.

● Strong experience creating pixel perfect and responsive designs

● Strong CSS skills (SCSS / Styled-components)

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Knowledge of Reactjs functional components and react hooks.

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs

● Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

● Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

● 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)