React Developer

Are you a UI whiz with a knack for crafting beautiful and intuitive interfaces? Do you love the

challenge of building cross-platform apps with cutting-edge technologies? If so, we want you on our

team!

About the Role:

We're seeking a talented and passionate Software Engineer with a deep understanding of

JavaScript, React, and Flutter to join our fast-growing team. You'll play a key role in designing,

developing, and implementing user interfaces for our web and mobile applications. You'll collaborate

closely with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to bring our vision to life and

create exceptional user experiences.

Responsibilities:

- Design and develop user interfaces (UI) using JavaScript, React, and Flutter

- Build reusable, maintainable, and performant UI components

- Implement responsive layouts that adapt seamlessly across different devices (web, mobile)

- Integrate UI components with backend APIs

- Write clean, well-documented, and testable code

- Collaborate with designers to translate design mockups into functional UIs

- Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing

- Stay up-to-date on the latest UI development trends and technologies

Qualifications:

- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on UI development

- Proficiency in JavaScript, including ES6+ features

- In-depth knowledge of React and experience building React applications

- Solid understanding of Flutter and experience building cross-platform mobile apps

- Experience with UI design principles (user experience, accessibility)

- Familiarity with CSS frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap, Material-UI) a plus

- Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX) a plus

- Experience with unit testing frameworks (e.g., Jest) a plus

- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

- Strong communication and collaboration skills

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Bonus Points:

- Experience with UI animation libraries (e.g., React Spring, Rive)

- Experience with continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) pipelines

- Experience with accessibility best practices

- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)

Candidate Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good hands on experience in React JS
• Strong JavaScript fundamentals
• Knowledge of HTML5/CSS3 is plus.
• Knowledge in Natural Language Processing is plus.
• Knowledge of database technologies like Hadoop / MySQL / SQL / No SQL is a plus.
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs
• Enthusiastic in problems solving and is proactive.

Qualifications:

• MCA/BE/B.Tech

• 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:

• Strong in Vue.js or React.js, HTML, HTML5, DOM(Document Object Model) concepts
• Must know Nuxt.JS a Vue Framework.
• CSS3, SASS, SCSS, Bootstrap 4, Webpack, Box Modelling, Grid System
• Responsive Design, Cross browser/device development
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript
• OOJS - Object-oriented JavaScript
• NPM/YARN Representation 
• REST API knowledge
• Modular programming, Use of NPM Components

• 5+ years in architecting and building Single Page Applications (SPA)
• Shipped at least 2+ applications using Angular/AngularJs
• 6+ years expertise in building Angularjs and Angular with integration and unit tests.
• Good working knowledge of other frameworks such as REACT, nodejs, meteor etc.
• Experience with package management tools such as webpack for minification, uglification etc
• Experience with creating embeddable widgets
• Expertise with CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap4

• Demonstrated expertise of building cloud native applications
• Familiarity with administration of CI/CD such as jenkins
• Responsibilities
• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to create UI/UX designs
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• AngularJS, Angular: 5 years (Required)
• Single Page Applications: 5 years (Required)
• CI/CD: 2 years (Preferred)
• webpack: 2 years (Preferred)
• CSS: 5 years (Preferred)
• Cloud Native: 2 years (Preferred)
• React, vuejs: 1 year (Preferred)

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Skills:

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)