Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack EngineerJob type: Full Time · Department: Engineering · Work type: On-SiteChennai, Tamil Nadu, India Job detailsApplication formAbout RocketlaneRocketlane is building world-class software for customer onboarding, professional services, and modern service delivery teams.We care deeply about product craft. Our engineers work closely with Product and Design to solve complex problems, build delightful user experiences, and create systems that remain fast and reliable as we scale.If you enjoy owning a problem end-to-end — from the database and APIs all the way to the interactions a customer sees in the browser — this role is for you.What will you do?As a Lead Full Stack Engineer, you will own meaningful parts of the Rocketlane product from design through production.You will:Design and build features end-to-end across our React frontend and Java backend.Work closely with Product and Design to turn customer problems into simple, thoughtful product experiences.Build polished, performant user experiences for complex SaaS workflows.Design clean APIs, data models, and backend services that can scale as our customers and usage grow.Solve challenging product problems involving real-time collaboration, rich interactive experiences, workflow automation, large datasets, and highly configurable enterprise use cases.Make thoughtful architectural decisions across frontend, backend, database, caching, and asynchronous processing.Own the performance and reliability of what you build — from browser performance through API latency and database queries.Debug complex issues across the entire stack rather than stopping at service boundaries.Write maintainable, well-tested code and raise the quality bar through thoughtful code reviews.Identify technical debt and proactively improve architecture, developer experience, observability, and engineering productivity.Mentor engineers and help the team make better technical decisions.Take ownership of features in production and work with the team to diagnose and resolve issues quickly.Participate actively in engineering design discussions and influence how Rocketlane's technology evolves.You should apply ifFrontendYou are comfortable with:React and modern JavaScript/TypeScriptSPA architecture and component designHTML and CSSState management and complex client-side application flowsBrowser fundamentals such as caching, storage, networking, and renderingBuilding reusable components and maintainable frontend architectureFrontend performance profiling and optimizationBuilding responsive and high-quality product experiencesExperience with real-time applications, WebSockets, large data-heavy interfaces, rich editors, or spreadsheet-like experiences is a plus.BackendYou have strong fundamentals in:Java and Spring or similar backend frameworksHTTP and REST API designPostgreSQL or other relational databasesData modelling and query performanceRedis and cachingAsynchronous processing and message brokersDesigning scalable and resilient backend servicesPerformance optimizationDebugging and root-cause analysisLogging, monitoring, and production troubleshootingEngineering fundamentalsBeyond knowing frameworks, we expect you to understand why systems behave the way they do.You should be comfortable discussing topics such as:API and system designDatabase transactions and concurrencyCaching strategiesDistributed systems fundamentalsFailure handling and resiliencyPerformance and scalabilitySecurity and authorizationTesting strategyProduction observabilityClean code and maintainable architectureWhat we're really looking forWe're not looking for someone who is 50% frontend and 50% backend but shallow in both.We're looking for an engineer who has strong depth in at least one part of the stack, solid engineering fundamentals across the other, and the ability to independently take a customer problem from:Problem → Design → Architecture → Backend → Frontend → ProductionYou should be someone who asks:“What is the right solution for the customer and the product?”rather than:“Is this a frontend problem or a backend problem?”You'll thrive here ifYou enjoy owning problems rather than just completing tickets.You care about both how a product works and how it feels to use.You can move quickly without compromising engineering fundamentals.You are comfortable working through ambiguity and breaking large problems into smaller ones.You enjoy collaborating directly with Product and Design.You are willing to dive into unfamiliar parts of the stack when the problem requires it.You care about performance, reliability, and maintainability — not just getting something to work.You enjoy mentoring other engineers while remaining deeply hands-on.You like learning, experimenting, and continuously improving the way software is built.Nice to haveExperience building B2B SaaS productsExperience in a startup or high-growth product companyAWS experienceDocker/containerization experienceExperience with CI/CD pipelinesExperience building real-time collaborative applicationsExperience with WebSocketsExperience working with high-volume APIs or large datasetsExperience with Playwright, Cypress, or similar automation frameworksExperience designing enterprise-grade integrationsExposure to AI-assisted product development or AI-powered product experiencesWhy Rocketlane?Build challenging product experiencesYou'll work on problems that go well beyond basic CRUD applications — collaborative workflows, highly interactive interfaces, automation, data-heavy experiences, enterprise integrations, and increasingly AI-powered experiences.Own meaningful parts of the productEngineers at Rocketlane are expected to understand the problem, contribute to the solution, build it, ship it, and learn from how customers use it.Work across boundariesYou won't be constrained by artificial frontend/backend boundaries. If solving the problem requires changing the UI, API, data model, cache, or infrastructure, you'll have the opportunity to work across all of them.Raise your engineering barYou'll work alongside engineers, designers, and product leaders who care deeply about building a world-class SaaS product.And most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to look at something customers use every day and say:“I built that.”Apply for this positionAutofill from resumeSave time by uploading your resume. (Only PDF or DOCX format supported)Upload fileLoading...Made with