Frontend Engineer

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and experienced Engineering Leader to take up front-end development efforts. You will design and develop elegant interfaces that exceed client expectations in terms of value and benefit. You will collaborate on scalability issues involving visualizing massive amounts of data and information. You will identify, define and communicate best practices for front end.

You are passionate about building secure, high-performing and scalable front-end applications. Your design intuition inclines towards usability, elegance and simplicity. You are biased towards open-source tools and existing frameworks. You have demonstrated strong inter-personal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct UI/UX team, define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of advanced visualization products
• Define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of advanced visualization products
• Translate wireframes into functional requirements, write well-abstracted, reusable, high-performance code for UI components
• Work closely with design, product management and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces
• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies
• Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale. Support diverse clients from high-powered desktop computers to low-end mobile devices
• Understand and coach/teach others, show a high level of ethics and team-work

 Requirements

• Bachelor/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in developing responsive, elegant, efficient and cross-browser front-end applications
• Hands on experience on various MVC frameworks, UI libraries and tools such as Angular, ReactJS, HTML5, CSS3, D3.js
• Hands on experience on Map API’s like Google Maps, Openstreetmap and other powerful information-rich maps
• Familiar with UX processes and design
• Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision making 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!

About Job

HelloAR is actively seeking React JS developers with strong proficiency in Three.js to join our growing technical team.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in modern JavaScript, including ES6 and promises.
• Previous experience with React.js in either a commercial setting or personal projects.
• Understanding of common browser APIs and recent HTTP protocol extensions relevant to frontend development.
• Familiarity with state management libraries such as Redux.
• Experience working with 3D libraries like Three.js.
• A problem solver who enjoys challenges and puzzles.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain HelloAR's React applications.
• Create UI components based on provided designs.
• Produce reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
• Contribute to team development and initiatives.

About HelloAR:

HelloAR is a Remote Presentation platform for physical products. Our platform empowers users to create immersive product catalogs, 3D product configurators, sales tools, e-commerce experiences, collaboration tools, and more. We offer well-designed APIs, a 3D design marketplace, a drag-and-drop admin tool, SDKs for various web and mobile platforms, SDKs for VR platforms, and out-of-the-box solutions that enable users to deliver exceptional product presentations to their customers.

Expectations for Our Engineers:

• Tackle challenging problems.
• Take pride in producing high-quality code.
• Display interest in Augmented Reality.
• Build simple yet powerful web applications.
• Embrace the unique challenges of working in a startup environment.
• Possess knowledge (or a willingness to learn) about 3D and computer graphics.
• Be open to experimentation, learning, and becoming experts in new languages and platforms.
• We are seeking developers who not only excel in programming but also have the ability to question specifications and propose better solutions for users.

● Developing new user-facing features using React.js

● Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

● Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code

● Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

● Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript as well as HTML and CSS

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Working knowledge and integration knowledge with RESTful APIs

● Knowlegde of websockets implementation is a must.

● Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

● Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.

● A knack for benchmarking and optimization

● Familiarity with code versioning tools {such as Git}

● Added advantages if you have working knowledge of AWS

• Proficient knowledge of a NodeJS and Express.
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms (such as mobile vs, desktop), and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jade, EJS, Jinja, etc. depending on your technology stack)
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors (such as Stylus, Less, Sass etc. depending on your technology stack)
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS.

• VueJS
• Express
• Socket.IO
• NuxtJS
• MongoDB (3.x)
• Mongoose

• Work with Angular2, NodeJS, Meteor, and MongoDB as the stack to develop newer functionalities for our platform
• Deploy application on AWS/ Google Cloud infrastructure
• Monitor the application regularly and fix bugs
• Work with team to create scalable and robust infrastructure from experts
• No. of positions available: 2
• Skill(s) required : JavaScript, Node.js and Angular 2.0 (ref:hirist.com)