Frontend Developer

• 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 https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a Software Engineer - Frontend you’ll be part of the Frontend team, implementing beautiful web designs made by our designers to keep both our site and the internal web-based tools we use fresh and up to date on top of working on new projects alongside this, there is always something new and interesting to work on. 

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?

• Implementing designs for our website/web tools created by our design team

• Create and update interactive interfaces used throughout the company

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!

Brief Overview:

Through your work at Vauld, you will have the opportunity to change money for the 21st century. We’re a leading cryptocurrency platform and are passionate about increasing economic freedom around the world.

We are looking for a Lead frontend engineer who has hands-on experience with Angular/React in the front end responsibilities. You'll be involved with bringing features from idea to completion and mentoring an incredibly talented group of peers.

If you are looking for a challenging work environment where you can grow and deepen your technical skills as a frontend engineer and architect, we’d love to chat with you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with designers, product managers to collaboratively own the front-end layer for Vauld’s web and mobile applications.
• Architect, develop, maintain, and improve our front-end libraries.

Requirements:

• You have 5 years or more of front end development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance web applications.
• You are aware of Javascript design patterns and can architect a fairly complex UI without feeling the need for a framework.
• You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a particular language/framework.
• You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework.
• Experience in any of React/AngularJs/Vue js
• You have a deep understanding of javascript coding methodologies and can rightly judge/implement solutions to complex problems.
• You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production environment, and finally monitoring.

Preferred:

• Previous work experience in product-based (B2B/B2C) startups and fintech firms.
• Experience working with Visualisation/graphs/gaming
• Experience building for mobile platforms
• Understands the cryptocurrency landscape

Working at Vauld:

You will join a fun and intellectually stimulating work environment. If you’re excited by the idea of making a real impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves on being disruptive and ambitious, a career with Vauld is perfect for you.

About the company

One of Asia’s largest global sports media property in history with a global broadcast to 150+ countries. As the world’s largest martial arts organization, the company is a celebration of Asia’s greatest cultural treasure, and its deep-rooted Asian values of integrity, humility, honor, respect, courage, discipline, and compassion.

About the Role

The Company's Engineering team in Bangalore, India is building products for the Martial Arts fans across the world. As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products.

This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+ countries!

Responsibilities
• Own architecture, design, development, and implementation of different
modules/features of the front-end applications at ONE
• Be up to date with the latest trends in React ecosystem
• Bring in industry best practices
• Take ownership to drive an initiative to completion
• Discover opportunities for performance improvements
• Recommend ways to improve reliability, efficiency and code quality
• Focus on continuous delivery and reducing complexity
• Carry out code reviews and manage pull requests within the frontend application
development team

Requirements
• Overall 4.5+ years of experience in frontend development using React, Redux.
• B.E/B.Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute (IITs, NITs, BITs,
IIITs or equivalent)
• Ability to write readable and maintainable JavaScript code
• Ability to build pixel-perfect user interfaces with smooth interactions
• Knowledge of Web technologies and concepts -HTML, CSS, REST APIs, Caching, etc.
• Experience in Vue.JS and Angular.JS is a plus.
• Experience using web build tools, such as Webpack, Babel, NPM, Yarn, etc.
• Solid understanding of how web applications work including OWASP, XSRF,
Security, Session management and best development practices.
• Experience in Cloud-based technologies such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with handling Services, RESTful APIs and developing for high-volume
web applications. Experience in Microservice architecture and practices.

• Responsible to develop web application using Angular 2 or above.
• To Create functional requirements and design documents for new features in web application.
• Write and maintain the front end code of web applications & To work in UI development.
• Must have developed web application.
• Hands on experience in Angular 2 or above , JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap.
• Knowledge in jasmine or karma (optional)

Your Responsibilities

• You will be a rockstar front end engineer bringing to life designs and solutions created in collaboration with designers and product managers. You will be responsible for converting the requirements to fast, optimised, usable interfaces, loved by our users.
• You will be the main source of knowledge on everything “front end” related and guide the team to make correct technical decisions to ensure the speed and scale of the solutions deployed.
• Collaborate daily with back-end developers and web designers to improve the usability
• You will be a key person in ensuring that agile processes created by the team are adhered to and you actively contribute to the improvement of these processes. You will be responsible for estimating your tasks and ensuring that promised timelines are met.
• You will be responsible for the performance, security, scalability, reusability and quality of the applications under you. You will collaborate with senior engineering managers/architects to refine & improve your solutions. You will cascade the same culture across the team by supporting and mentoring team members, helping build truly scalable applications
• You will need to collaborate closely with product managers, designers and business stakeholders to achieve predictable results at a rapid pace. 
• You will be able to handle competing priorities and chart the best course of action for yourself and your team members ensuring blockers are removed
• You will help in attracting and evaluating tech talent to help build the engineering brand of the organization.

Desired background & skills

• 3-9 years of experience as an engineer at top tier digital product companies across consumer or SMB. 
• 3+ years of experience in working on front end JS frameworks like React/Angular/Vue
• Excellent knowledge of working with responsive and adaptive designs. Expert in HTML5, JAVAScript, JQuery & CSS. Basic knowledge of SEO.
• Experience of design collaboration tools such as Zeplin, Figma, XD, Invision. 
• Bonus if either you’re a full stack developer with knowledge of the back end or have experience with cross-platform mobile technologies such as React Native or Flutter.
• You have strong problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms. 
• Passion to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment. conscientious, curious, hard-working individual who craves accountability and loves to solve complex problems.
• You get a kick out of people using and loving your produced outcome.

• Must have - Javascript, React JS, React Native, Typescript
• Good to have - Andriod/iOS, Express.JS, Angular, VUE, Team Lead experience/Scrum Master, Design Experience
• Working Experience on building Dashboards, UI Prototypes, Internal Tools
• Profile - Independent, Self-Organised, Problem Solver