PHP Developer

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

• 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!

Work Profile:

• Delivering a complete front end application in Agular
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and browser with reusable and modular components spanning cross multiple projects
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Integrate with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services for 3rd Party tools and services integration
• Requirement  
• 2+ years of experience and proficiency with Angular, JavaScript and HTML5
• Deep knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ability to provide SEO solutions and optimization
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular

If you are looking to be part of the early-stage start-up team that is charting the course and solving a key pain point for the CXO, this opportunity is for you. The opportunity will provide you join a company where you can contribute to all aspects of the product definition, product building and solving some key challenges.

• Architect solutions and execution through hands-on development, quality-assurance, and prototyping 
• Collaborate with a UX/UI designers and other front-end and middle-tier engineers to design, prototype, and build user interface for complex cloud-based product 
• Participate in complete development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing and production release 
• Develop and maintain a scalable web and responsive applications 
• Exhibit Devops mindset – Work on continuous integration, including provisioning, deployment, testing, and version control of the software 
• Mentor new software developers and junior engineers

• Passionate engineer with 5 – 8 years of hands-on experience of developing next-generation user interface with high quality and performance 
• Strong desire to learn & evaluate new libraries/frameworks, and share knowledge with others 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile development environment 
• Sound knowledge of front end standards and practices 
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code 
• Knowledge of Redux, React.js and its core principles 
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, JSON, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model 
• Experience with popular JS frameworks and libraries (React, Angular, JQuery, Ember, Babel, Webpack etc.) 
• Experience of building Single-page Web Apps 
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
• Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing 
• Proficient with debugging and testing tools to troubleshoot and optimize the UI 
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design and programming concepts, core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises

Good to have

• Full-stack development experience 
• Prior Startup Experience 
• Prior experience in developing real-time web applications 
• Experience with continuous deployment 
• Proficiency with Git/Github 
• Experience with GraphQL

Success Factors

• Start-up mindset 
• Good problem solving abilities 
• ‘Can-do’ attitude 
• Prior experience of working with globally distributed teams is an added advantage 
• Work with minimal supervision 
• Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team

Our team is looking for fast-moving engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset. As a software engineer, you will help grow the platform by identifying new features, products, and business opportunities. You will write and own scalable production-grade code across the platform in collaboration with the small, close-knit and dedicated global development team.

We keep cloud-native concepts close to our heart whenever we design any software component and you will have exciting opportunities to work on new software frameworks, modern tech stack and cloud-native applications using latest cloud technologies.

If you want to feel and see that your contributions matter, have a strong desire to work for an early-stage startup and if you love working in a dynamic, agile, continually improving environment and most importantly, work with good people, come talk to us. If you are excited about the opportunity to build a cool new Cyber Security SaaS product ground-up then lets talk!!