Frontend Engineer

UI/UX Designer

Location: Baner, Pune (Work from Office)

Company: StarApps Studio

About Us:

StarApps Studio is a fast-growing, bootstrapped, and profitable B2B SaaS company empowering 25,000+ Shopify merchants and 1,000+ Shopify Plus stores with 6 highly-rated apps. As one of the Top 100 companies building apps on Shopify and the Top 1% in RPE SaaS, we are on an exciting journey from $4M ARR to $10M ARR. We are a passionate team of 20 people, building innovative tools that simplify and enhance e-commerce success.

Now, we’re looking for a UI/UX Designer to elevate our product experience and make our apps even more intuitive, engaging, and delightful for Shopify merchants.

What We’re Looking For:

• 4+ years of experience in UI/UX design, preferably in SaaS or e-commerce.
• Strong proficiency in Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar design tools.
• Experience in creating wireframes, prototypes, and design systems.
• A solid understanding of UX principles, usability, and accessibility best practices.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and front-end development concepts (coding is a plus, but not mandatory).
• Strong problem-solving skills with a keen eye for detail and aesthetics.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment, handling multiple projects effectively.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills—comfortable presenting and discussing design decisions
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Why Join Us?

• Impact: Your work will directly influence thousands of Shopify merchants and drive the growth of a top-rated SaaS company.
• Growth: Be part of a company on the path from $4M to $10M ARR, with ample opportunities to scale your career.
• Autonomy & Creativity: We value innovation and give you the freedom to experiment and bring your ideas to life.
• Great Culture: A small, passionate, and tight-knit team that values collaboration, flexibility, and work-life balance.
• Perks: Competitive salary, occasional WFH, and a fun, high-growth startup environment in Baner, Pune.

If you’re a creative, data-driven designer passionate about shaping intuitive and high-converting digital experiences, we’d love to hear from you! Let’s build something amazing together! 🚀

Job Role :

o Experience in Front-end web development using JavaScript jQuery,Angular, HTML5, CSS

o Responsible for handling end to end design & execution of all product web interfaces

o Develop new user-facing features & build reusable code and libraries for future use Work closely on UI/UX designs and back end engineers to implement versatile front-end solutions to web development problems

o Design, development, integration, delivery of different UI side modules of the product

o Develop and enhance modular, multilingual, cross-browser front-end applications using Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, etc.

o Experience in making responsive layouts

o Experience developing in Agile development processes

o Work closely with product management, customer support and SQA to continuously evolve and innovate the product.

o Involvement in the full development life cycle of projects. Working as a part of a team as well as on your own initiative

o Facilitate in the decision-making processes with team members both in terms of new system development and enhancement to current systems

o Experience of full software development life cycle and Agile Strong verbal & written skills required to interact with global teams. Highly motivated, analytical thinking individual

o Since this role involves working closely with users, the ideal candidate would have Knowledge of Relational database/SQL

o Ability to multi-task and work against deadlines/priorities

o Sense of ownership and desire to take on an expanded role over time. Eager to work with new technologies and apply them towards enterprise-level data solutions

o Capable of working with a global team and thriving in a team development environment. Advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to deal with real world business issues

• 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!

Job Description:

We are looking for good JavaScript developers who are proficient with React.js. 

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js.
• Have 2-4 years of experience.
• 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

Skills:

• 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)
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

Location: Bangalore, Delhi, Gurgaon

Function: Software Engineering → Frontend Development

Requirements:

• 2-5 years of experience in building large complex and performant web applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS across multiple browsers.
• Strong Object Oriented JavaScript fundamentals.
• Experience in java script frameworks such as React and a good understanding of the basics of these frameworks and their life cycles.
• Deep understanding of various deployment strategies and their pros and cons.
• Understanding of Docker.
• SSR experience is a must.
• You should have enough understanding of SEO principles.
• Experience of working with React Hooks desirable.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript (ES6 ES7).
• Experience with server-side rendering using nextjs, express, hapi etc.
• Hands-on experience with any unit testing framework (mocha/chai, jest etc).
• Deeper understanding of Chrome Dev Tools.
• Should understand nuances of the timeline for perf monitoring.
• Deeper knowledge of UI optimizations and performance.
• Deeper understanding of network layer, HTTP, HTTPS, cookies, local storage.
• Understanding of JavaScript Design patterns and ability to use them in applicable scenarios.
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms and their space and time complexities.
• Strong in open source technologies, agile development.
• Excellent communication skills, good visual design sense, in-depth experience in developing web-based applications.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial.

Web Development Interview:

• Technical Round 1 JS + Web fundamentals + React (Based on Experience)
• Technical Round 2 React JS - Problem solving (Machine coding round)
• Technical Round 3 Technical evaluation/Team fitment
• HR Round