React.js Frontend Developer

Opportunity:

We are looking for a young and enthusiastic personality who loves UI design and be at the forefront of creating exceptional user interfaces for our laundry industry. We believe that user-centric design ultimately leads to the best products, so we listen closely to our users, both external and internal. As an engineer on our close-knit, cross-functional team, you'll be an active voice in shaping our product.

Responsibilities:

         User Interface Development:

●     Develop and maintain responsive and user-friendly web and mobile user interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks.

●     Ensure consistent and pixel-perfect implementation of UI designs across different browsers and devices.

         Optimization:

●     Optimize UI code and assets for performance, speed, and scalability.

●     Implement responsive design principles for seamless user experiences on various screen sizes.

         Cross-Functional Collaboration:

●     Work closely with UI/UX designers to translate design concepts and wireframes into functional web interfaces.

●     Collaborate with product managers, back-end developers, and QA engineers to deliver high-quality products.

         Testing and Debugging:

●     Perform testing and debugging to identify and resolve front-end issues and ensure a smooth user experience.

●     Stay updated on industry best practices and emerging technologies.

Required Candidate Profile:

         Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Web Development, or a related field is preferred.

         Front-End Development Skills:

●     Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and front-end development frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).

●     Strong understanding of responsive web design principles.

         Experience: Previous experience in front-end development, with a portfolio demonstrating your skills and projects you've worked on.

         Cross-Browser Compatibility: Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and solutions.

         Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug and troubleshoot front-end issues effectively.

         Communication: Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

         Adaptability: Ability to adapt to changing project requirements and deadlines.

As a UI Developer on our team, you'll have the opportunity to shape the user interfaces of our digital products, contribute to the development of innovative features, and enhance the overall user experience.

Job Profile: This role involves working with the frontend team working closely with the backend team. You are required to have in-depth knowledge of every level of the web creation process, which includes Linux server set-up and configuration, creating server-side APIs, making JavaScript codes that power apps, etc. Key Responsibility Areas: · Developing new user-facing features using React.JS Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers Skills Required: ▪ Experienced with front-end programming language with React JS. ▪ Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model. ▪ Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles. ▪ Experience with popular React.JS workflows (such as Flux or Redux). ▪ Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token. ▪ Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools. ▪ Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial). ▪ Candidates with Good communication Skills. ▪ Candidates with Banking / Finance domain experience preferred.,

• 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!

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of high quality, innovative, flexible, cost-optimized and scalable technical solutions that meet business requirements
• Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Micro services and scalable cloud native apps.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
• Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve quality and productivity of deliverables
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with cross functional team along with client's team
• Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User Focused, Adaptive
• Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
• Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
• Participate into the Evaluation Review of your team member

Desired Candidate Profile

• Experience in building enterprise web application using ReactJS as the frontend framework
• Experience with Redux and React Hooks
• Expert in HTML5, CSS3
• Experience in Bootstrap4 or CSS pre-processor like Less or Sass is highly desirable
• Strong knowledge of best practices and modern web design trends is necessary.
• Some experience with modern web-based typography.
• Excel at rapid prototyping and at writing good code.
• Experience with testing/debugging in multiple browsers and platforms.
• Expertise in using Javascript
• Should have worked on REST client and WebSockets
• Should be able to write Unit testing using any one of the frameworks like Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, Jest , Enzyme or any other similar framework.
• Should have experience in either one of the Build scripts like Gulp or Grunt or Webpack
• Low-Latency UI, Page optimization, and bundle build+caching
• Problem-solving and debugging skills
• Component-based architecture

Experience- 3 to 8 years 

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

REQUIREMENTS

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and sockets
• 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
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools
• Experience with PWAs and React Native is a huge plus

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