React Front-End Developer (Immediate Hire)

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game publishers and developers, with well over 750 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Traffic Cop 3D and Makeover Studio 3D. Alongside this, 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 and Die by the Blade. 

With a team of talented people collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, the Philippines and many more places, we have a truly global team making games for a global audience. And it’s paying off: Kwalee games have been downloaded in every country on earth! If you think you’re a good fit for one of our remote vacancies, we want to hear from you wherever you are based.

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters for many years, 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. Could your idea be the next global hit?

What’s the job?

As our Junior Frontend Web Developer you’ll be designing and producing excellent web interfaces, working closely with the server and analytics teams. 

What you tell your friends you do

“I make really powerful web-based tools and ensure that everyone in the company has the software that they need, especially when they don't actually know what they need!”

What you will really be doing

• 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 WatchTower.
• A portion of the work involves maintaining/improving our extensive games server admin interface and our in-house Analytics platform WatchTower.
• 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.

How you will be doing this

• You’ll be part of an agile, multidisciplinary and creative team and work closely with them to ensure the best results.
• You'll think creatively and be motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best.
• You’ll work with cutting edge technology, if you need software or hardware to get the job done efficiently, you will get it. We even have a robot!

Team

Our talented team is our signature. We have a highly creative atmosphere with more than 200 staff where you’ll have the opportunity to contribute daily to important decisions. You’ll work within an extremely experienced, passionate and diverse team, including David Darling and the creator of the Micro Machines video games.

Skills and Requirements

• Minimum 6 months 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

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the Unix, Linux, MacOS or equivalent development environments
• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• 2:1 or higher degree in a related discipline e.g., computer science, programming, maths

We offer

• We want everyone involved in our games to share our success, that’s why we have a generous team profit sharing scheme from day 1 of employment
• In addition to a competitive salary we also offer private medical cover and life assurance
• Creative Wednesdays!(Design and make your own games every Wednesday)
• 20 days of paid holidays plus bank holidays 
• Hybrid model available depending on the department and the role
• Relocation support available 
• Great work-life balance with flexible working hours
• Quarterly team building days - work hard, play hard!
• Monthly employee awards
• Free snacks, fruit and drinks

Our philosophy

We firmly believe in creativity and innovation and that a fundamental requirement for a successful and happy company is having the right mix of individuals. With the right people in the right environment anything and everything is possible.

Kwalee makes games to bring people, their stories, and their interests together. As an employer, we’re dedicated to making sure that everyone can thrive within our team by welcoming and supporting people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances. With the inclusion of diverse voices in our teams, we bring plenty to the table that’s fresh, fun and exciting; it makes for a better environment and helps us to create better games for everyone! This is how we move forward as a company – because these voices are the difference that make all the difference.

JOB DESCRIPTION

It is a platform for creators, influencers and celebrities to grow, manage and monetise their community. It is aimed at both established and aspiring online creators who want to pursue their passion. Our vision is to enable anyone and everyone to make a successful living doing what they enjoy.

Profile Summary

We are looking for experienced and skilled Frontend (React.Js) Developers to join our
core team. Your primary focus will be the development of new features and refinement of
existing features on user-side.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure product delivery is fast, low-cost and sustainable.
• Take responsibility from development to customer support.
• Build robust and scalable production software.
• Improve quality using code reviews, and unit/integration testing.
• Improve efficiency using automation, and methods like test driven development.

Skills & Qualification:

• 2+ years of experience in software development preferably B2C experience.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Experience in React.Js , Javascript, any experience in React native is a plus
• Experience with popular React workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript (ES6 & ES5 ).
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Experience in working with the MERN stack or similar frameworks
• Working knowledge of git for version control.
• Understanding of Unix tools.

We are looking for a Lead UI Engineer to design and build multiple channels for user interaction.

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• Design/Architect and develop core features of the UI/frontend.
• Design/Architect and develop policy framework to provide rich UI for various features of the solution.

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Requirements:

• Must have 6+ years of experience in working in frontend technologies
• Must have at least 2-3 years. of experience with Angular2 or above versions.
• Must have at least 5+ years of experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with PrimeNG and Vega is a plus
• Strong background in developing UI for Monitoring and Management systems, dealing with topology, and different telemetry such as metrics, traces and logs
• Familiar with containerization solutions like Docker/Kubernetes etc.
• Familiar with serverless technologies like AWS Lambda.
• B.E/B.Tech/MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript / Typescript language and its nuances,
• including ES6+ syntax
• Knowledge of Object oriented programming
• Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage

We are looking for a talented Front-end Engineer capable frontend developer to join OneFin!

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the design and backend team to build and develop web applications for our forward-thinking products.
• Design large-scale systems with high complexity to support our high throughput applications.
• Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving such large-scale problems.
• Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible.
• Adopt problem-solving as a way of life - always go to the root cause.
• Develop scalable front-end engineering, for the largest FinTech companies in India who use our product.
• Actively think about improving UX and UI.
• Collaborate with the team to discuss and implement ideas.
• Build responsive, robust, and optimized applications.

• Professional development experience with Angular 10
• At least 1-3 years of JavaScript development experience for web applications.
• Strong eye for design, UI, and UX.
• Passion for front-end development.
• Willingness to learn and experiment with new technologies.

Job Description

• • Collaborate with developers and UI/UX engineers to build scalable web apps
• • Design, implement and manage large applications with video streaming and complex state and high-frequency data
• • Experiment with large data sets to find interesting and valuable ways to visualize the data
• • Build reusable, testable React components that can be used between projects
• • Contribute towards building the company’s coding culture.
• • Mentor, groom junior developers and participate in code reviews

Requirements

• • 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• • A deep understanding of JavaScript
• • React, Redux or other JS framework experience
• • HTML5, CSS/SASS, Restful APIs, HTTP
• • JEST or other testing experience
• • Experience with android app development
• • Experience with CI/CD
• • Experience with Mathjax/Latex
• • Experience with large scale video streaming
• • Understanding of i18n, A11Y
• • Excellent understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues
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The Role

• Create fast and functional and intuitive interfaces.
• Create mobile responsive web pages that work on desktop, tablets and smart phones.
• Create well-written JavaScript, as well as expanding current JavaScript code.
• Create and maintain web forms that integrate with our CRM.
• Assist with API integration for dynamic email/web prospect and customer communications.
• Translate designs and style guides provided by the UI/UX team into functional user interfaces, ensure cross-browser compatibility and performance.
• Create functional pages and banners from design mock-ups.
• Test code across platforms and browsers.
• Document work and communicate issues when they arise.
• Assist troubleshooting production issues.

Requirement:

• Associate degree in a technology-related field required (bachelor’s degree preferred).
• 3+ years of experience in front-end development in a start-up or similar work environment.
• 1+ experience with Front End frameworks such as Angular 2.0/React JS/React Native.
• Knowledge of web standards and accessibility (W3C and s508).
• Ability to create production-quality CSS, SASS, and HTML for web applications with support for mobile and tablet devices.
• Good understanding of web-based application architecture.
• Designing/coding to overcome browser/platform constraints.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and JavaScript Knowledge.
• Ability to learn new tasks outside immediate range of skills.
• Able to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues
• Deadline oriented and able to multi-task in a fast pace environment.
• Knowledge of unit test frameworks like karma, Jasmine, Mocha, Chai etc.