Frontend Engineer (ReactNative)

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement user-centric features on web platforms to enhance overall experience and usability.
• Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, and product teams to deliver cohesive and scalable products.
• Solve diverse technical and integration challenges by building efficient solutions that connect with automation systems.
• Apply best practices to create reusable, testable, and maintainable components and frameworks.
• Optimize application performance and ensure responsive and adaptive design across multiple devices and browsers.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of modern front-end development frameworks and architecture.
• Hands-on experience building interactive, high-performance web applications.
• Proficiency with:
• React, Redux, and TypeScript
• Build tools like Vite, CSS preprocessors such as Less/Sass
• Solid grasp of UI/UX principles, responsive design, and accessibility standards.
• Experience integrating front-end solutions with REST APIs or automation systems is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.

The Opportunity At Certa, we are building the AI-native Operating System for global enterprise relationships. We have the clients (Fortune 100/500) and the robust backend technology. Now, under the guidance of our new Head of Design, we are elevating our experience to match the best consumer products in the world. We are looking for our First Design Engineer. You are the "missing link" between our pragmatic engineering requirements and our ambitious design vision. You won't just implement tickets; you will define how our product feels.

The Role This is not a standard Frontend Engineer role, nor is it a Product Designer role. This role is equal parts: Craft-focused Frontend Engineering: You write production-grade code, but you obsess over the details that others miss. Systems Thinking: You don't just build components; you build the architecture (Design System) that allows the rest of the team to build beautiful UI faster. Figma-to-Code Mastery: You bridge the gap between static Figma files and dynamic browser realities, moving fluidly between design and implementation.

What You Will Do

1. Architect the Design System & UI Patterns Take ownership of our internal design system. You will treat it as an internal product, creating a type-safe, accessible, and composable library in React & TypeScript. Manage the tokens, components, patterns, documentation, and governance required to scale design across a remote engineering team. Bridge the gap between Figma Variables/Tokens and code, ensuring a single source of truth for our visual language.
2. Make AI-Native UX Feel Trustworthy & Human Implement interaction patterns specifically for AI workflows: streaming states, progressive disclosure, and optimistic UI. Build for "explainability" and human-in-the-loop controls, ensuring users trust the system even when it automates complex tasks. Make complexity feel simple—especially when the system is performing sophisticated "smart" operations in the background.
3. Maximize Output with AI-Assisted Tooling Hyper-automate the mundane: Use AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, etc.) to handle boilerplate and scaffolding, allowing you to spend 80% of your time on the 20% of the "feel" and "craft." Build tooling and guardrails (linting rules, visual checks, component playground workflows) that help the team ship high-fidelity UI consistently.
4. Bridge Design & Code (Figma-First) Live in Figma: You are expected to be as comfortable in Figma as you are in VS Code. You’ll tweak layouts, design missing states, and refine prototypes yourself. Push performance beyond just metrics: focus on rendering, bundle size, perceived speed, and interaction responsiveness. Raise the bar on accessibility and cross-browser behavior, ensuring the product is usable by everyone.

Must Haves

1. Expert Figma Skills: This is a primary requirement. You should be fluent in auto-layout, components, variables, and prototyping. You view Figma as a design environment and a technical spec.
2. AI-Assisted Workflow: You are a "power user" of AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, v0, etc.). You know how to leverage AI to move faster without sacrificing the quality of the final output.
3. Strong Frontend Foundation: Deep expertise in React + TypeScript with a track record of shipping complex, data-heavy UIs in production.
4. Demonstrated UI Craft: A portfolio showing obsession with spacing, typography, interaction detail, and motion. You likely have a "Folder of Inspiration" from the best apps in the world.
5. Design System Experience: Strong experience building and maintaining a design system: tokens, components, patterns, and documentation.
6. Accessibility Expertise: You build keyboard-first UX, understand screen reader behavior, and enforce correct ARIA usage by default.
7. Modern Tooling: Experience with Vite and modern frontend tooling; comfortable setting up and customizing JS tooling/build systems.

Why You? (The "Craft" Factor)

1. You are inspired by the design-engineering cultures of companies like Linear, Vercel, Family, or Arc (The Browser Company).
2. You get annoyed when a modal closes without an exit animation.
3. You understand that latency is a UX problem, and you use optimistic UI updates to make the app feel instant.
4. You believe enterprise software doesn't have to look like a spreadsheet from 2005—it should feel as fluid as the best consumer apps.
5. You are an "AI-augmented" engineer who uses modern tools to do the work of three people while maintaining the taste of an artisan.

• 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!

• Minimum 4 yrs of experience in React JS.
• Experience building single page frontend applications and reusable components
• Solid experience with the core React ecosystem like React Router, Redux etc.
• Master of HTML, CSS, and other display-centric web technologies.
• Comfortable using git, docker.
• Proficient in Javascript (ES6 / ES7) programming with at least 4/5 years of
• experience.
• Good knowledge in writing frontend test cases.

• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates and Promises.

• Strong Problem Solving skills.

• Strong skills in Javascript and ability to write well documented, clean JavaScript Code.

• Very good understanding of ES6/ES7, JSX and Component Lifecycle.

• Deep practical knowledge of native Javascript, ES6, understanding the internals of frameworks like ReactJS, Angular or any other view libraries.

• Knowledge of modern authorisation techniques, such as JWT Tokens.

• Good understanding of common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, Yarn etc.

• Has strong communication skills and self-accountability.

This is a temporary full time role.

Responsibilities

• Developing the latest user-facing features using React.js
• Designing a modern highly responsive web-based user interface
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Learn and understand user interactions
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• As a React.js Developer, you will be involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound and aesthetically impressive.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Prior experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with more current specifications of EcmaScript
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with HTML / CSS
• GIT experience is a plus
• 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
• Familiarity with code versioning tools

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering with 3+ years experience.
• Strong knowledge in HTML5, CSS, SASS/Bootstrap, OOP JavaScript, JQuery & AJAX are preferred.
• Strong knowledge in developing responsive web app, designing models (JSON) and (Server communication (REST APIs) are preferred.
• Strong knowledge in modern Frontend frameworks & libraries like Angular, Redux + React are preferred.
• Strong Knowledge in HTML templates and modern templating technologies are preferred.
• Strong knowledge in modern libraries like React is preferred.
• Knowledge of NodeJS, NPM packages is a huge plus.
• Knowledge of Gulp, Bower is a plus.
• Knowledge of ExpressJS is desirable.
• Knowledge of Docker is desirable.
• Basic Knowledge of relational DBMS and SQL