Senior Angular Developer

• 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!

Profile Overview:

We are looking for passionate and keen-eyed front-end developers with 5+ years of experience in React JS for a major project to join our creative front-end development team who can add optimization and efficiency to the user experience and maintain brand consistency across all web page of the web products.

The front-end developer will closely coordinate with our back-end developers, graphic designers and UI designers to ensure all elements of the web creation are consistent.

Responsibilities:

• Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating excellent interactive forms of designs, writing reusable modules and maintainability of the code.

• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.

• Review and optimize the application usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.

• Determining the structure and design of web pages.

• Ensuring user experience by analyzing the design choices.

• Developing features to enhance the user experience.

• Striking balance between functional and aesthetic design.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, computer applications or related fields.
• Proven working experience as a React Developer for 5+ years and above.
• Hands-on experience with HTML5, CSS3, and  CSS frameworks.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Web services, Web API, REST services & GraphQL.
• Expertise in UI design and development of responsive web applications using React, Redux, Flask and Hooks.
• Applicable knowledge of Social API integration, Core location APIs, Web Views, Payments integration
• Proficiency in understanding layout aesthetics.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and multitasking skills.
• Ability to solve novel and challenging React problems.
• Capability to understand, develop and sustain continuous integration and delivery.

- Hands-on experience in developing User Interfaces (more than 4 years) using Angular 4+.

- Hands-on experience of using reactive frameworks like Redux, NgRX.

- Strong understanding of using UI testing frameworks like Jasmine, Mocha.

- Focus on building reusable components by employing Design patterns.

- Ability to remote diagnose user issues (With or without tools).

- Strong understanding of Object-oriented concepts.

- Ability to suggest alternative solutions for micro-level problems considering the environment constraints.

- Ability to diagnose development issues independently.

- Self-motivated learner.

About Xpresslane:
Xpresslane is a universal one-click checkout platform for eCommerce. We want to transform the way online shoppers buy, Democratize optimized checkout and post checkout experience. We have achieved 150+ signups from D2C merchants in the last year alone and are aggressively adding new features to help solve problems in their checkout process.

Engineering @Xpresslane:
We are a small group of Tech Enthusiasts, Product Managers. We give incredible value to design and UX is our topmost priority. We've implemented products using Go, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, Temporal, GraphDB, Svelte & React, Cypress, Gitlab CI/CD.

Why Engineering @Xpresslane:

• Opportunity to Design & Implement new features which are internet-facing.
• Opportunity to Design Scalable Distributed System spanning many regions.
• Freedom to learn & work across Frontend/Backend/Devops/Design Expertise.
• 2-4 years of experience in Frontend Engineering.
• Expertise in one or more frontend frameworks like React/Angular/Vue/Svelte
• Style the frontend applications with an incredible focus on design & UX.
• Self-driven in identifying opportunities to make things better and efficient.
• Ensure code quality and reliability through automated test implementations.
• View frontend as Engineering i.e, plan & implement components for reusability, testability
  and scalability.
• Nice to have, experience in using Figma/Sketch for quick mockups & prototypes
• Nice to have knowledge of cache busting, CSRF, XSS attacks.

• Convert design to Angular 5 components.
• Must have good experience in UI Developer + Angular.
• In-hand experience on UI Developer, Discovery, Angular, Brand and platform exploration, Styleguide, Proof of concept, Design production, Usability testing.
• Use SCSS as the CSS macroprocessor.
• Integrate the Angular services with APIs from the backend team.
• Test your screens using a tool for all browsers and resolution compatibility.
• Handle and track tasks assigned using Agile methodology.
• Strong commitment towards quality and schedule.
• Cross team coordination.
• Implement UI development best practices to write optimized and non-buggy code.
• Work in Agile environment with sprint releases ranging from 2 to 4 weeks.
• Feasibility study of requirement and suggest multiple approaches for a problem after sufficient RnD.
• Keep abreast with trending recent UI tools, technologies, plugins and software in the industry.
• Roll-up your sleeves attitude to get things done.

About Spinny

Founded in 2015

O2O Model focusing on selling high quality certified refurbished cars

Offering 5 Days no question money back + 1 year warranty

Over 10 outlets in 5 Cities: Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune & Hyderabad. (Launching in 3 more cities soon)

Over 10000+ supremely happy customers

Business Model

Working on a transactional and fulfilment model, Spinny is the go-to platform for buying and selling used cars.

Offering convenient transactions to the customers

One of the key differentiating factors is that its price engine, which works

on a proprietary neural network-based algorithm, determines the correct price of the car.

Spinny also takes care of all the paperwork, from registration to title transfers as well as assisting buyers in financing their purchase.

Frontend Developerswho possess passion for pushing web technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of the Spinny web application.

Software Development Engineer: Frontend

Our Culture

Over 750 Spinners in the ecosystem Fast track growth environment Fostering strength driven culture Culture philosophy of social, agile and sustainable Top 50 global technology 

Crunchbase

Series A & Series B funding by SAIF & ACCEL & ALTERIAFrontend Developers who possess passion for pushing web technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of the Spinny web application.

What you'll do

You are a perfect match with us, if you have:

Experience in javascript frameworks such as React,, etc and a good understanding of the basics of these frameworks and their life cycles.

Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).

Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript (ES6 ES7).

Bachelors/ Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, preferably from IITs/Top RECs.

1-5 years of experience at cutting edge organizations or startups