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 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!

• Designing and developing interactively Adapting / Responsive web applications using best practices on ReactJs and the latest front-end technologies.

• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS, LESS / SASS.

• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful APIs.

• Participate in complex technical and design decisions for ReactJs projects.

• Ensuring high performance of applications (on mobile and desktop) and providing support.

• Work closely with design teams, development teams and testing teams.

• Coordinate team deliverables assuring Quality and Completeness.

• Unit Testing.

Technical Skills:

• Highly Skilled with proven experience in React 16+ and its State Management tools like Redux, styling framework like Material UI.

• Proficient in CSS, LESS / SASS, Semantic HTML, and writing cross-browser compatible code.

• Extensive experience using JavaScript/ Typescript, HTML5, CSS/CSS3, LESS/SASS, Bootstrap, AJAX, JSON, Gulp, Grunt etc.

• Good Knowledge in Rest APIs/ GraphQL.

• Experience in tools such as GIT / SourceTree / Bit Bucket, JIRA, Confluence, etc.

• Should have understanding of the agile methodology

• User should have basic knowledge on tools like Figma / Adobe XD and photoshop etc.

Nice to have:

• Nice to have knowledge in Angular, NextJs.

• Nice to have knowledge in Progressive Web Application (PWA), Service Worker and Web Worker, etc.

• Best practices for Website Accessibility (WCAG)

Personal Traits:

• Strong Verbal and Written communication skills, such as meeting facilitation, presentation and documentation

• Work day-to-day with development team, QA testing team, providing expert support to each as needed and appropriate.

• Lead and Coordination experience with critical thinker and good problem-solver.

Education Qualification

• UG: B. Tech / B.E. – Computers OR PG: MCA / M. Tech

We are looking for a skilled react.js developer to join our front-end development team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing user interface components using React.js concepts. You will also be responsible for profiling and improving front-end performance and documenting our front-end codebase.

React.js Developer Responsibilities:

1. Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
   
2. Identifying web-based user interactions.
   
3. Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using react concepts.
   
4. Writing application interface codes using JavaScript following react.js workflows.
   
5. Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.
   
6. Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
   
7. Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
   
8. Documenting application changes and developing updates.
   

React.js Developer Requirements:

1. Previous experience working as a react.js developer.
   
2. In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
   
3. Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux.
   
4. Experience with user interface design.
   
5. Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
   
6. Excellent troubleshooting skills.
   
7. Good project management skills.
   

Senior Software Engineer-Frontend

About the role: 

We are looking for passionate, talented, and highly motivated hands-on Front End Developers with a creative edge, strong problem solving skills and strong development fundamentals. We strive to maintain an open culture where everyone is a contributor and feels comfortable sharing ideas and opinions. Our team, drawn from the best product companies, is obsessive in its detailing and our focus is on awesome User Interaction.

Requirements:

• Ability to collaborates with teams to explore existing systems, determines areas of complexity and learns the applications capabilities
• Complete understanding of internal code and workings on any popular open source library will be highly appreciated
• Some record of contribution to any popular front end open source project is a big plus.

Skills that will help you succeed in this role:

• An ideal Senior Front End Engineer would have 3-6 years of experience in building highly scalable UI on the Web/Mobile.
• Highly skilled at building highly performant web applications using  JavaScript, HTML and CSS including frameworks and tools such as React, Redux, Redux saga, Sass, Less etc.
• Ability to write testable, maintainable code that’s easy to understand.
• Experience in modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Ability to take complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks.
• An innate curiosity about how things work.
• Strong product and design sensibilities and an obsessive attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Self-directed team player who thrives in a continually changing environment.
• We are looking for passionate, talented, and highly motivated hands-on Front End Developers with a creative edge, strong problem solving skills and strong development fundamentals. 

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Hiring for  Angular Developer:  

• Delivering a complete front-end application
• Hands-on experience in Angular 4+ version
• Ensuring high performance & adaptability on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services
• Deep knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating self-contained, reusable, custom, and testable modules, directives, pipes, and components
• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, regarding the app logic as well as the file system
• Exp on angular material themes and best scss practices
• Extensive Typescript knowledge to create angular applications
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to implementing custom HTTP interceptor.
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts
• Application knowledge of unit testing. TDD knowledge is an added advantage
• Good understanding of Git and related workflows for daily development activities
• Hands-on debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Working knowledge of Agile methodology and scrum

We are looking for individuals with a love for frontend, and building products with a great user experience. The ideal candidate is someone who has a collaborative process and is comfortable with ambiguity. You will be the earliest members of the product engineering team, and will have an opportunity to define the culture. If you enjoy the zero-to-one process, this is for you.

What you’ll do

• Be part of a team building a web and mobile web app from grounds up
• Drive frontend development for our product.
• Work fast, carefully evaluate the technical tradeoffs of every decision
• Collaborate with design and product on user experience and interface
• Build responsive & re-usable UI components using ReactJS
• Maintain code and write unit tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong proficiency in developing with Javascript/ReactJS/AngualrJS
• Strong command of HTML5 and CSS
• Comfortable collaborating with designers and translating designs into high-quality code
• Familiarity with REST APIs
• Familiarity with Git for version control
• Strong communication skills - verbal and written

Minimum Qualifications

A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields or relevant experience to demonstrate your abilities and aptitude

2+ years of experience in developing consumer or SaaS web apps or websites

Good to Have

Experience in building real-time frontend and backend data sync applications

Demonstrated an interest for UX and UI

Experience with: AWS, Shopify

• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages
• Design mobile-based features
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
• Maintain and improve website
• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
• Create quality mockups and prototypes

• Proven work experience of 2+ years as a Front-end developer
• 1+ years experience of working in ReactJS
• Hands on experience with markup languages, including HTML5, CSS3
• Experience with JavaScript, CSS and jQuery
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Understanding of layout aesthetics
• Knowledge of SEO principles
• Familiarity with software like Adobe Suite, Photoshop and content management systems
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