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!

Profile Overview:

We are looking for passionate and keen-eyed front-end developers with 5+ years of experience in React JS for a major project to join our creative front-end development team who can add optimization and efficiency to the user experience and maintain brand consistency across all web page of the web products.

The front-end developer will closely coordinate with our back-end developers, graphic designers and UI designers to ensure all elements of the web creation are consistent.

Responsibilities:

• Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating excellent interactive forms of designs, writing reusable modules and maintainability of the code.

• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.

• Review and optimize the application usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.

• Determining the structure and design of web pages.

• Ensuring user experience by analyzing the design choices.

• Developing features to enhance the user experience.

• Striking balance between functional and aesthetic design.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, computer applications or related fields.
• Proven working experience as a React Developer for 5+ years and above.
• Hands-on experience with HTML5, CSS3, and  CSS frameworks.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Web services, Web API, REST services & GraphQL.
• Expertise in UI design and development of responsive web applications using React, Redux, Flask and Hooks.
• Applicable knowledge of Social API integration, Core location APIs, Web Views, Payments integration
• Proficiency in understanding layout aesthetics.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and multitasking skills.
• Ability to solve novel and challenging React problems.
• Capability to understand, develop and sustain continuous integration and delivery.

What we are looking for?

A React JS Developer to manage a project for one of our biggest clients in the banking domain. The Individual should be passionate about technology, and experienced in developing and managing cutting-edge technology applications.

Technical Skills:

• 4 - 8 years experience in various software development/maintenance roles and proven experience working on React projects under an Agile /Scrum methodology and extensively used 

    React JS (Must Have)

    C#, .Net Core (Good to have)

    Web API

    JQuery

   HTML5

    Version control systems like GIT.

• Experience in doing peer reviews and code reviews.
• Unit Testing Frameworks like Jest and karma
• Exposure to Source control like TFS, GIT
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• Experience with Real Estate IT systems would be an advantage.
• Understanding of Enterprise Frameworks, Release procedures, understanding of development environments.
• Demonstrated ability in communicating with business users and assessing their needs.
• Demonstrated ability in providing solutions and working through the full development life cycle.
• Experience in progress reporting to management.
• Time Management Skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Have the ability to provide constructive criticism in an inoffensive manner and be willing to help the team achieve the sprint goal. 
• Other duties as required.
• Participate in requirements analysis
• Write clean, scalable code using React
• Test and deploy applications and systems
• Refactor and debug code.
• Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Expert in applications and provide technical support.
• Work closely with Solution Architect in designing applications. 
• Write unit tests/functional tests/integration tests as per the definition of done for the Scrum team. 
• Write and verifies code that adheres to the acceptance criteria 
• Development according to best practices as per industry standards. 
• Post Implementation Support and production support. 
• Work closely with Architects and Scrum Masters to ensure the team attains continuous improvement 
• Have the ability to provide constructive criticism in an inoffensive manner and be willing to help the team achieve the sprint goal. 
• Ability to meet with clients as and when needed to discuss technical issues

Behavioral Skills:

• Resolve technical issues of projects and Explore alternate designs
• Participates as a team member and fosters teamwork through inter-group coordination within the modules of the project.
• Effectively collaborates and communicates with the stakeholders and ensures client satisfaction
• Train and coach members of project groups to ensure effective knowledge management activity.

Certification:

• Any relevant certification would be added advantage

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

Responsibilities

• Delivering a complete front end application
• Ensuring high performance 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

Skills and Qualifications

• Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system
• Ability to provide SEO solutions for single page apps
• Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times
• 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
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS
• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource
• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts
• Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks
• Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well reasoned alternative)
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments