Frontend Developer

Role & Responsibilities

4-7 years of Strong proficiency in Full stack Development of Web Applications and experience in shipping production applications.

Experience of using Typescript for development would be a mandate.

Frontend- next.js, react.js, vue.js and bit for svelte kit are highly preferred Backend- node.js, react.js, express.js

B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering from Tier 1 Colleges preferred

Experienced with Tailwind CSS

Experienced with TDD for component and end-to-end testing

Ableto set up CI/CD pipelines for testing and deployment (canary, staging) using Github actions according to project

Entrepreneurial mindset with strong decision-making skills

Ability to move quickly without breaking things too much (we are dreamers)

Ability to work under immense pressure which is balanced by a sense of responsibility and ownership

Comfortable working with a Git style workflow where every commit deploys to a staging environment and merged pull requests deploy to production

Job Description : 

• Work with your team to design and build software applications to function across web applications
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Work closely with UX designs and work on integrating the wireframes into UI
• Validate the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Conduct thorough testing of user interfaces in multiple platforms to ensure all designs render correctly and systems function properly.
• Get feedback from, and build solutions for users and customers.
• Write functional requirement documents and guides.
• Ensure high-quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Architect and build high-performance, scalable, and user-friendly mobile apps using native frameworks
• Optimize application performance and ensure responsiveness across different iOS devices.
• Integrate with RESTful APIs and other backend services.
• Implement unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver a seamless user experience.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in UI development.
• Mentor and guide junior team members. Mandatory Requirements
• Minimum of 5 years working as a professional UI developer
• Proficient knowledge of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript .
• Expertise in front-end in any of the front-end frameworks like React.js
• Strong understanding of front-end coding and development technologies.
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Experience with state management libraries like Redux
• Experience with unit testing frameworks like Jest or WTR
• Experience in E2E testing frameworks like Playwright or Puppeteer
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration with backend services
• Experience with performance monitoring and Optimization tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Job Title - Frontend Software Engineer - Data
• Reports Into - Senior Software Engineer - Data
• 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 a Frontend Software Engineer in the Data Science Team, you will build tools and develop technology that deliver data products to a team of strategists, marketing experts and game developers. You will design, build, test and deploy products which serve a company fuelled by data.

Your Team Mates

The Data Science team is central in developing the technology behind the growth and monetisation of our games. We are a cross functional team that consists of analysts, engineers and data scientists, and work closely with the larger engineering team to deliver products spanning our modern, cloud first, tech stack.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Develop and maintain user-friendly and visually appealing web applications using Vue.js
• Create interactive and informative data visualisations for general audiences as well as highly specialised teams
• Integrate with large, complex data sources and machine learning models via APIs
• Work within a data focused team to increase access to and the understanding of test and analysis results within game development, marketing and other aspects of 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 VueJS but could also be others e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, Svelte)
• Knowledge of data visualisation libraries and techniques
• Understanding of REST APIs, asynchronous programming, and data handling
• An excellent working knowledge of various database, scripting, and development tools, for example bash, Python, Postgres, MySQL, CouchBase, git, JIRA
• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best

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!

Our client is a rapid growth stage Edtech start-up focused on solving the teacher shortage crisis in the US education system using technology by bringing teachers to the classrooms and giving them access to the right tools to teach students in a highly engaging manner.

They have a development center in Mumbai and they are looking to scale up the teams in Pune and Bangalore as well.

What does the role entail:

●Lead requirement/task and guide junior software engineers in the development process.

● Design, develop and maintain user interfaces for web and mobile applications.

● Strong understanding of UI design principles and best practices.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyse requirements, design solutions, and implement new features.

● Develop and implement unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality.

● Troubleshoot and debug applications.

● Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.

● Mentor junior software engineers and help them grow their technical skills.

Required Skills:

● B.E/B.Tech/master’s in computer science (or equivalent).

● 4 - 7 years of experience

● Skilled with one of Front end Technologies: Angular 10+/Flutter/React/Vue.

● Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript or Dart.

● Experience with state management libraries.

● Experience with UI testing frameworks such as Cypress.

● Experience with responsive design and developing mobile-first user interfaces.

● Knowledge of UI accessibility guidelines and experience implementing accessibility features.

● Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.

● General understanding of Agile software development methodologies.

● Understanding of development and operational support best practices.

• Implement responsible web design principles to ensure that our company website renders well across multiple devices
• Design a framework for creating user apps that grows with the needs of the company
• Monitor website performance, watch for traffic drops related to site usability problems and rectify the issues
• Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team
• Assist in the development of applications and features that will be put on the website and in internal functions as well.
• Ensuring user experience determines design choices.
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Striking a balance between functional and aesthetic design.
• Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
• Building reusable code for future use.
• Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
• Utilizing a variety of markup languages to write web pages.
• Maintaining brand consistency throughout the design

• - Contribute to a full development life cycle, including: requirements analysis, functional design, technical design, programming, testing, documentation, implementation, and on-going technical support.
• - Work closely with the existing team to learn the current application architecture, design and understand its functionalities and complexities.
• - Bridge the gap between graphic design and backend technical implementation
• - Build modular, responsive templates using modern CSS techniques
• - Translate UI/UX design wireframes to actual code
• Testing cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility for inconsistencies.

• - 2+ years of industry experience as a Front End Developer Engineer
• - Degree in Computer Science or related field
• - Experience with developing web and mobile applications
• - Extensive knowledge HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript / jQuery / Bootstrap / ReactJS, AngularJS
• - Strong experience in JSON/XML and REST/SOAP based Web Service based integration.
• - Experience (mandatory) with working Web Framework versions with exposure to creating components and handling AJAX calls.
• - Good to have knowledge in JIRA, GIT.
• - Strong knowledge of Client-Server Architecture.
• - Basic Proficiency with Python or relevant back-end scripting language
• - Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way

• - A positive attitude, and a growth mindset
• - Great attention to details

• - Experience with API testing software (e.g. Postman)
• - Good Humor

Our frontend (React) team is passionate about React Technology and we are working on a few world-class products which have their roots and frontend in React Technology along with Redux, web-hooks, and Reducers. Keeping performance, scalability, usability, and user acceptance in mind, we are looking for a smart frontend engineer that has experience developing a variety of Web Applications using React Technology. (Along with strong frontend expertise, needs a good understanding of how frontend applications work in different browsers and have a mobile responsive design)

Basic roles and responsibilities are mentioned for the engineer at our team:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• 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.
• Good understanding of async functions and their concepts.
• Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known ReactJS workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• A Commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

• Developing new user-facing features using ReactJS
• Familiarity with modern front-end builds pipelines and tools.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Thorough understanding of ReactJS and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows. (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and Oauth.
• Good knowledge of CSS and other latest frameworks like a tailwind CSS / Bootstrap.

• Experience developing highly scalable Web applications.
• Knowledge of Media Queries and CSS via useful frameworks.
• Strong experience with React frameworks with components like Redux, Flux, Webhooks.
• Good knowledge of code versioning (git / Github)
• Good experience with code deployment on servers like Ubuntu, Linux systems.
• In-depth knowledge of designing and developing software in distributed architectures for multi-tier applications
• Basic understanding of docker to work with different major versions of Node js and database release(Postgres, MySQL, etc)
• Good knowledge to write and train the team to write unit test cases for the application code.

• You would be knowing how to do a basic code review of team and junior NodeJS engineers.

• Experience with deployment and CI/CD is a plus!
• Have worked with Testing libraries
• Good Verbal and Written communication Skills.