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• Job Title - Software Engineer - Frontend
• Reports Into - Lead Frontend Web Developer
• Location - Hybrid/Bangalore

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 
• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA
• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
• On site gym - take care of yourself
• Relocation support - available
• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars
• Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As our Software Engineer - Frontend you’ll be designing and producing excellent web interfaces, working closely with the server and analytics teams. 

Your Team Mates

The frontend team consists of both our frontend developers and designers, we work closely with all parts of the business to create tools that vary across the whole company, from the publishing team to create a portal for people to submit games, the marketing team on things like our website, all the way to our internal teams for things like administration and analytics.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• You'll be working directly with the server and client teams to create our games server admin interfaces. And closely with the analytics team developing features for our analytics platform.
• A portion of the work involves maintaining/improving our extensive games server admin interface and our in-house Analytics platform.
• You will be working with a lot of different technologies that make up our worldwide cluster where we support millions of daily players.
• On some projects specific gameplay features rely on server side counterparts and complex web UI interfaces making for a good change of pace from Analytics and Data entry interfaces.

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 2 years browser-based programming experience
• A proven track record of programming high quality and innovative web pages using Javascript, HTML5 & CSS3 and relevant frameworks (ideally ReactJS but could also be others e.g. AngularJS, NodeJS, Handlebars, jquery, gulp)
• An excellent working knowledge of various programming languages, databases and scripting tools including at least one of bash, MySQL, CouchBase, Python, Java, C#, JSP, PHP
• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best
• Interest in mobile games

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

As front-end engineer, you’ll be responsible for end-to-end development of products and services that align with business objectives.

Work Culture

1. Grow your skills, experiment with cutting edge technologies and tools
2. An environment that encourages creative thinking and limits red tape
3. Collaborate with fellow engineers, product management, clients and end users
4. Execute responsibilities effectively and honestly

Skills and Experience

1. Minimum 5 years of javascript development experience
2. In-depth understanding of javascript and reactjs
3. Experience in designing effective data structures and algorithms
4. Experience in object-oriented and functional programming paradigms
5. Experience in consuming REST web services.
6. Experience and understanding of any backend framework would be a plus
7. Experience with version control and project management tools
8. Excellent oral and written communication (english + 1 local language)
9. Analytical and problem-solving skills
10. Familiarity with any cloud service provider - aws/digital ocean/azure

Signs you would be a good fit

1. You enjoy crafting elegant, well-tested solutions, not just delivering working code
2. You have logical and well-researched opinions on existing and new technologies, and relish the learnings and challenges of working on different platforms and products
3. You have an entrepreneurial mindset
4. You are a quick learner with proven reasoning skills
5. You explore beyond your resume

About Eloquent Studio Pvt Ltd

Team of 1-10 people

Located in Pune, Maharashtra, India

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in Frontend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Relevant work experience as a UI Developer. Proficient in JavaScript , ReactJS and/or Reactive Native, Angular , JQuery Experience with HTML, CSS, Knowledge of web services and related technologies (REST) Experience with Web Services and API integration
• Candidate should have a stronghold on HTML & CSS
• Can understand and troubleshoot REST APIs calls
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Knowledge of SASS & LESS will be a plus as well
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Use JavaScript and cutting-edge JS frameworks to develop front end applications that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models
2. Solve and articulate complex problems through application design, product development, and user experiences. 
3. Develop software used by people who are not software developers--ensure the exceptional software you create influences them to be exceptional professionals in their respective fields
4. Collaborate with other programmers and mentor junior engineers through the development process
5. Leverage the knowledge of your peers to better understand business trends, customer communities, and technology adoption patterns
6. Evolve your language skills in JavaScript by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools.

Jivox is transforming the way the world experiences digital marketing. We connect brands with their audiences in the most personalized way: using big data, AI/machine learning, Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), customer journey optimization, and identity technologies to deliver omni-channel precision marketing.

https://www.jivox.com/creative-advertising-technologies-forrester/">Recognized as a leader in creative advertising technologies by Forrester Research, Jivox delivers 1:1 messaging throughout the customer journey, seamlessly linking paid and owned media. Our portfolio of global clients includes the likes of Marriott, Mazda, Unilever, Nestle, IBM, Vodafone, and Heineken. 

POWERFUL DYNAMIC CREATIVE PERSONALIZATION PLATFORM

Jivox has offices in San Mateo, Bangalore, New York, London, and Singapore.

• Own and drive business features into tech requirements

• Work closely with Product Managers, Customers to align technology choices with business requirements

• Design and build rich interactive application to be used by leading media companies
• Optimize our algorithms and API so that the we will be able to return information fast (and we mean really fast...and for a large numbers of users) 
• Build eye catching tools that will provide useful content and consumer delight 
• Quickly create quality prototypes
• Staying updated on emerging technologies
• Evangelist for high quality products and driver of best practices towards the same
• Mentor and develop junior developers in the team

• 7+ years of Frontend Development experience
• Expert in React or similar frameworks
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Expert in translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Proven experience in building high performance web application
• Prior experience working with test-driven development and continuous integration
• Prior experience working with microservices
• Prior experience in an Agile environment on a Scrum team
• Experience on one of AWS, Azure or GCP

• You have excellent and effective communication and collaborative skills
• You love problem solving
• You stay up to date with the latest technologies and then apply them in real life
• Interest and ability to influence all areas of software development from software best practices, CI, CD, Sustainability, documentation etc
• Eagerness to mentor the team and be a go-to technology leader
• You love paying attention to detail
• You thrive in meeting tight deadlines and prioritising workloads
• Ability to collaborate across multiple functions

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience within the field. 

• The UI developer will produce robust front end for advanced financial banking and trading applications connecting with server side using micro services
• 3+ years of relevant experience in front end development using React.JS.
• Strong knowledge of Web development technologies, including HTML5, CSS3 etc
• Should have a knowledge of java script libraries like ag-grid, datagrid, chart js, D3 js etc
• Strong experience in developing UI applications showing large amount of data in grid format.
• Must have good experience of testing frameworks like mocha/chai, jasmine etc. for React JS.
• Excellent knowledge of Java and spring, with experience of use in a professional environment