Fullstack UI developer

JOB TITLE - SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Roles and Responsibilities

·      Developing Content Management System.

·      Designing and building the website front-end.

·      You will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development including the implementation of WordPress themes and plugins as well as site integration and security updates.

·      Building wireframes and designs for website before execution.

·      Ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience, Able to interact with team and understand functional requirements and create design documents for new features.

·      To work in teams alongside back-end developers, graphic designers, and user experience designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent.

·      Utilizing a variety of markup languages to write web pages for e.g., HTML, CSS, JS

·      Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team.

·      Troubleshooting content issues.

·      Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end

·      Generating WordPress themes and plugins.

·      Conducting website performance tests.

QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES

·      Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.

·      Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.

·      Experience designing and developing responsive design websites.

·      Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, and jQuery.

·      Knowledge of code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, and SVN.

·      Experience working with debugging tools such as Chrome Inspector and Firebug.

·      Good understanding of website architecture and aesthetics.

·      Excellent communication and teamwork skills

·      Great attention to detail

·      Organizational skills

·      An analytical mind

KEY RESULT AREAS FOR THE ROLE

·      Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.

·      Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages.

·      Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.

·      Accessibility and performance optimizations of websites across devices.

·      Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.

• 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!

• Full stack product engineering i.e. design, engineer, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain software components to QA and Production environments
• Design & engineer product experience & APIs conforming to defined quality, maintainability, scalability, and performance KPIs
• Build, maintain, and improve continuous integration and delivery lifecycle processes
• Automation of repetitive engineering and production activities

• Engineering in computer science
• 3+ year of relevant experience in product engineering with expertise in building frameworks, reusable components, and APIs
• Expert level skills in analytical & problem solving
• Strong programming and engineering fundamentals like Data Structures,
• Design Principles, TDD, and Performance Tuning to build scalable and performance optimized product
• Ability to communicate clearly in English

• HTML5
• CSS3 (Sass/Less)
• JQuery
• JavaScript (ES6) / TypeScript
• React.js
• Version Control : Git

• Angular 6
• Java Script
• HTML
• Css
• UI 

Jivox is transforming the way the world experiences digital marketing. We connect brands with their audiences in the most personalized way: using big data, AI/machine learning, Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), customer journey optimization, and identity technologies to deliver omni-channel precision marketing.

https://www.jivox.com/creative-advertising-technologies-forrester/">Recognized as a leader in creative advertising technologies by Forrester Research, Jivox delivers 1:1 messaging throughout the customer journey, seamlessly linking paid and owned media. Our portfolio of global clients includes the likes of Marriott, Mazda, Unilever, Nestle, IBM, Vodafone, and Heineken. 

POWERFUL DYNAMIC CREATIVE PERSONALIZATION PLATFORM

Jivox has offices in San Mateo, Bangalore, New York, London, and Singapore.

• Own and drive business features into tech requirements

• Work closely with Product Managers, Customers to align technology choices with business requirements

• Design and build rich interactive application to be used by leading media companies
• Optimize our algorithms and API so that the we will be able to return information fast (and we mean really fast...and for a large numbers of users) 
• Build eye catching tools that will provide useful content and consumer delight 
• Quickly create quality prototypes
• Staying updated on emerging technologies
• Evangelist for high quality products and driver of best practices towards the same
• Mentor and develop junior developers in the team

• 7+ years of Frontend Development experience
• Expert in React or similar frameworks
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Expert in translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Proven experience in building high performance web application
• Prior experience working with test-driven development and continuous integration
• Prior experience working with microservices
• Prior experience in an Agile environment on a Scrum team
• Experience on one of AWS, Azure or GCP

• You have excellent and effective communication and collaborative skills
• You love problem solving
• You stay up to date with the latest technologies and then apply them in real life
• Interest and ability to influence all areas of software development from software best practices, CI, CD, Sustainability, documentation etc
• Eagerness to mentor the team and be a go-to technology leader
• You love paying attention to detail
• You thrive in meeting tight deadlines and prioritising workloads
• Ability to collaborate across multiple functions

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience within the field.