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!

Role - Principle Engg | Reactjs

Skill Set - Programming

• React js with Redux,
• HTML5/CSS3
• Javascript
• Mobx (optional)
• Storybook (optional)

Unit Test Cases: Jest & Enzyme

Code Quality:

• SonarQube Knowledge
• Strong hold on unit-testing frameworks and writing effective unit tests

Other Important Skills:

• Engineering & Design Skills
• Good analytical & problem solving skills
• Ability to ship features end to end without much guidance
• Experienced with Agile methodologies

Soft Skills

• Good communication skills
• Zeal to learn new technologies & Methodologies

Position Summary

The Management, Orchestration, Visualization and Analytics team is looking for a technically strong UI/UX Engineer who will help develop and enhance the UI features of Manova products and services. Having a background in Cloud services or Network Management is highly valuable.

Responsibilities

• Design user interfaces by creating wireframes and mockups

• Adopt and advocate practices of modern responsive UI designs

• Develop flows using Javascript

• Develop/ enhance UI screens using HTML5, CSS3, React, Angular (or possibly other comparable Javascript technologies)

• Own both development and test automation for the assigned features

• Develop test automation for UI code using Cypress, Jest, React Testing Libraries or other technologies

• Performance tuning of web application with solid knowledge of isolating and debugging a performance problem

• Implement functional flows on a Micro-frontend architecture

• Ensure smooth pipeline runs based on Docker, Kubernetes

• Keep abreast of new front-end technologies and development practices

• Efficiently communicate/collaborate internally at F5

• Participate in defining new software architectures, products and solutions

• Serve as source of technical expertise to a project team and is a mentor for junior staff members

• Proactively identifying and resolving key technical issues

Qualifications

• 10+ years of significant software development and engineering experience.

• Experience of renovating a legacy application to one based on modern UI principles

• Solid hands-on experience in UI and Javascript technologies such as React/Redux, Angular, Knockout, Backbone, JQuery etc

• Solid experience with HTML5, CSS3, LESS, SASS

• Experience with UI Automation and practices to increase efficiency and accuracy of UI development

• Good familiarity with REST services and data formats such as JSON, XML

• BA/BS in computer science or other engineering disciplines

• Expertise with Continuous Integration and Agile development methodology

• Good communication, presentation skills and ability to work well in a development team

• Strong SW engineering and design skills with an eye for details.

• Passion for learning new technologies, and a track record of doing so.

• Great skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and cross browser implementations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience and knowledge about React.js and Next.js
• Strong understanding of how SSR (Server Side Rendering) works.
• Taking figma/zepline files from designers, slicing and/or recreating elements via CSS to match the design perfectly
• Ability to make modifications to libraries as per requirement of a project
• Extensive knowledge of fonts, embedding from third parties like Google, Typekit & Font Deck etc. Knowledge of optimizing CSS/JavaScript performance, coding practices and tools.
• Passion and follow through for their work. Excited and curious about learning new technology, as well as the sharing of ideas. Exceptional collaboration, listening, written, and verbal communication. Able to own individual projects as well as the ability to work within a team.
• Awareness of current design trends in the visual arts, working knowledge of the latest computer packages and an understanding time limits which can impact on the design.
• Knowledge of GIT or any other version control software.

• Good experience on Next.js, with great css skills.
• Should also know the latest strategies available on Next.js v12.

Looking for a dynamic go-getter attitude UI developer with at least 3+ years of product development experience in building great UI with neat code.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Product design and development
Work on different areas of the platform
Build, optimise and enhance the UI performance

• 3+ years of experience in product development
• Experience with Angular 2+, Ionic 3+ is must
• Working with RESTful web services within web applications
• Should be comfortable working with git
• Should enjoy hacking things together to create a proof of concept, but always good at quality production code
• Capable of executing tasks with minimal guidance

Responsibilities

• Develop our products front end
• Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Collaborate with back-enddevelopers and web designers to improve usability
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

Requirements

• 4 to 6 years of work-experience as a Front-end developer
• Experience in developing front end applications at scale
• Strong knowledge and experience with JavaScript ,CSS, Angular,AJAX and jQuery,react,node
• Experience in CSS preprocessor (SASS/LESS/COMPASS), CSS framework – Bootstrap.
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process
• Knowledge of Wordpress theme integration Template customization
• Able to Write code as Per W3 validation Rules, Cross browser, Cross Device, and SEO Friendly