Senior Front End Developer

We are looking for a talented React Developer with 1-3 years of experience to join our growing team. As a React Developer at [Company Name], you will play a key role in building and maintaining the front-end of our AI-driven products. You will collaborate closely with our product designers, AI engineers, and back-end developers to create user-friendly interfaces that are both functional and aesthetically pleasing.

Description

3-5 years of proven and progressive experience in React with TypeScript, and Microservices with Node.js(Good to have), CSS3, and HTML5. As a Frontend Developer, you will be in charge of all duties related to the frontend client platform, from developing designs for complicated applications. This includes reviewing software and business specifications, ensuring UI/UX feasibility, and implementing front-end code optimizations to ensure a smooth user experience.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of Javascript fundamentals with a strong understanding of the DOM and browser APIs.
• Full-stack web development experience (Good to have).
• Experience working with Microservices with Node.js (Good to have).
• Experience with a responsive design for desktop/mobile.
• Experience with Javascript frameworks, such as React(must), Angular, or Vue.
• Knowledge of the latest CSS conventions, and experience with preprocessors, such as Sass or Less.
• Ability to work in an Agile environment.
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge. 
• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding process.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance the performance of the main front-end website.
• Work with business analysts to review business requirements, and UI designers to ensure technical feasibility of concepts.
• Collaborate with backend developers to set up scalable API architectures.
• Maintain frontend infrastructure, monitor for exceptions in the code, and debug any faults that occur in production.
• Perform requirements analysis, identification of code metrics, code analysis, system risk analysis, usability, automation, and software reliability analysis.

Perks

• Work-Life Balance
• Skill Development
• Object Bootcamp
• Sabbatical Leave
• Parental Leaves
• Office Perks (Free Meal, Snacks)
• Challenging work

Culture

• Open Culture
• Flat Hierarchy
• 360-degree feedback
• Mentorship Program
• People Supportive
• Competitive & Friendly Environment

• 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!

👋🏼We're Nagarro.

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital , and our people exist everywhere in the world (19000+ experts across 33 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Must-Have: Typescript
• Expertise in TypeScript, HTML CSS, React JS, Unit Testing, Webpack, Service Worker and Web Worker
• Knowledge of high-quality professional software engineering practices for the agile software development cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and deployment
• Fundamental knowledge of design patterns
• Passionate about building great solutions
• Mentoring the team members to meet the client's needs and holding them accountable for high standards of delivery
• Knowledge of multi-site and multi-locale sites would be preferred
• Task delivery, Task status reporting, Proactive Contribution, Process Adherence, Autonomous task delivery, Effort estimation (Strong), Technical risk handling, Technical solutions (Strong), Risk management (Strong), Technical leadership (Capable), Client interaction, Interviewer, Pre-sales support.
• Knowledge of high-quality professional software engineering practices for the agile software development cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and deployment
• Fundamental knowledge of design patterns
• Experience in communicating effectively with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
• Passionate about building great solutions
• Mentoring the team members to meet the client's needs and holding them accountable for high standards of delivery
• Being able to understand and relate technology integration scenarios and be able to apply these learnings in complex troubleshooting scenarios

 RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Writing and reviewing great-quality code
• Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analyzing the client’s needs in the context of the project
• Envisioning the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, and being able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks to realize it
• Determining and implementing design methodologies and toolsets
• Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities.
• Being able to lead/support UAT and production rollouts
• Creating, understanding and validating WBS and estimated effort for a given module/task, and being able to justify it
• Addressing issues promptly, responding positively to setbacks and challenges with a mindset of continuous improvement
• Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations.
• Helping the team in troubleshooting and resolving complex bugs
• Coming up with solutions to any issue that is raised during code/design review and being able to justify the decision taken
• Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested designs/technologies meet the requirements

• Work with other developers to ensure that the website is functional and visually appealing.
• Liaise with the client to gauge their needs and expectations.
• Plan the layout of the website.
• Ensure that the website is optimized for various devices.
• Use analytics to test client enjoyment.

• Proficiency in HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS.
• Knowledge of Adobe Illustrator.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of key design principles.
• Good problem-solving skills.

Kvantum is a career-changing opportunity where you will get to learn the latest and greatest marketing analytics for CPG, Retail, eCommerce, Pharma industry (to name few). At Kvantum, you will be part of a rapidly growing company. You will be able to make your mark; you’ll help write the story.  You will get the chance to go above and beyond, being a hero to your clients and to your team. You will get the chance to make a big impact, applying your coding skills, domain expertise to ready the most innovative marketing science product to Fortune 1000 customers.

What you’ll be doing in your new job:

 As a  Front End/UI Developer at Kvantum you will be working with incredibly talented, optimistic people in an environment that fosters innovation builds trust, and frequently erupts into laughter. You are a natural developer and enjoy helping team members in coding and development. You command respect from your superiors and also from peers. In this role, you’ll demonstrate a proven track record of developing enterprise-grade web frontends using technologies such as JavaScript, Ajax, XHTML and JSON. You'll join a team of exponential application developers who are working hard to develop our next generation SaaS marketing applications.

 Primary Responsibilities includes:

• Develop Proof-of-Concept and prototype applications using new technologies and frameworks. In addition to collaborating with internal teams and clients to create innovative solutions.
• Help establish GUI best practices and JavaScript frameworks for web development.
• Provide context and guidance for integration and implementation of Front-End Interfaces
• Translate wireframes, comps, and functional requirements into functional HTML/ CSS / Javascript.
• Develop standards-compliant mark-up and code for web sites and applications
• Develop JavaScript using standard Frameworks (jQuery, etc.)
• Develop small to medium size custom JavaScript libraries for reuse across the application
• Provide technology and implementation expertise to the domain, projects, or client
• Maintain leading-edge knowledge in emerging technologies and frameworks
• Participate in knowledge sharing and lessons learned sessions from project experiences

For this position, you must have:

• Expert JavaScript/HTML/CSS coding skills.
• 2-4 years of professional experience 
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in javascript 
• Minimum 1 year of relevant experience in React.js
• Hands-on experience with the implementation of different design patterns
• Proven experience of developing software using the Agile/SCRUM development methodology
• Command of web standards, CSS based design, cross-browser compatibility
• Experience to optimize the performance of the web application;
• Good understanding of page rendering, DOM manipulation, caching, REST API
• Experience of developing the application using  Test-driven Development(TDD)
• Experience of working on LINUX environment
• Attention to detail, Dedication, and Problem-Solving skills.

Nice to Have: 

• Working experience in any of  these technologies and frameworks: D3.js, Node.js, Express.js, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, Redis
• Experience working with start-ups.
• A good learning curve for new technologies.

We provide a competitive stipend and abundant opportunity for talented people to grow faster. Our people (as we call them Kvants) know how to celebrate success (monthly team events, quarterly company events, employee awards, etc.) and work smart to achieve desired goals.

Disclaimer:

Outside Recruiters: Kvantum prefers to recruit candidates directly. We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not contact Kvantum employees with unsolicited resumes. Any resume sent by an outside agency without an explicit signed Kvantum generated agency agreement in place will be considered unsolicited and will not be eligible for payment.