Senior Front-End Developer

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 - 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!

• Proficient knowledge of a NodeJS and Express.
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms (such as mobile vs, desktop), and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jade, EJS, Jinja, etc. depending on your technology stack)
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors (such as Stylus, Less, Sass etc. depending on your technology stack)
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS.

• VueJS
• Express
• Socket.IO
• NuxtJS
• MongoDB (3.x)
• Mongoose

• 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)

Responsibilities:          

• Designing and developing user interfaces using AngularJS/Angular best practices.
• Adapting interface for modern internet applications using the latest front-end technologies.
• Writing JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
• Developing product analysis tasks.
• Making complex technical and design decisions for AngularJS/Angular projects.
• Developing application codes and unit tests in AngularJS, Angular, Micro-frontend architecture, and Rest Web Services.
• Conducting performance tests.
• Consulting with the design team.
• Ensuring high performance of applications and providing support.

Qualifications   

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related background
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

Required Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years’ experience with JavaScript (Particularly ES6), Typescript, CSS, HTML.
• 2+ years’ experience with Angular v9 or greater.
• Experience using JavaScript building tools like Grunt and Webpack.
• Client-side unit testing via Jest or similar testing library a plus
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs is strongly desired
• Experience working in agile project management methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, FDD)
• Excellent communication skills.
• Critical thinker and good problem-solver.

Required Skills

As a developer, you have a passion for development and a thirst to learn. You enjoy working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You are a quick learner who can step up and take ownership of work to get things done on time. You also enjoy and appreciate working and collaborating with others from various backgrounds as part of a team.

Job Requirement

• Full-stack developer with exposure working in building products from scratch
• Have 2+ years in implementing front-end of applications using ReactJS
• Proficient in HTML 5, CSS 3, Bootstrap Ant-D, Redux, JavaScript and writing cross-browser compatible code
• Good knowledge of MVC, MVVM, OOPS concepts, Web Development Concept.
• Experience with RESTful services
• Work experience any one of the backend technologies such as Java, NodeJS, .NET will be a major plus
• Experience in JavaScript build tools such as web-pack /gulp
• Familiar with testing frameworks (such as Jasmine) and Test runner framework (such as Karma) (good to have)
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Knows unit testing
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Duty /Responsibility

• Your specific duties in this role will include:
• Responsible for the front end/UI development for of the web-based and mobile-based application
• Responsible for communicating with clients
• Responsible for communicating with Designing Team and Team Manager
• Responsible for Requirement Analysis
• Responsible for mentoring junior front-end developers
• Responsible for researching new web technologies
• Responsible for developing POCs
• Respond to technical queries/requests from team members and customers.
• Coach, guide, and mentor junior members in the team.

About Nua

Nua was founded on a dream to transform women’s wellness in India.

Our story began with a pad. And not just any pad that could be picked off the shelves but one that was truly thought around a woman’s needs.

However, we soon realised that the need for safe & effective products went beyond just pads. So, we asked the women in our community to tell us what they were looking for.

We believe that our Sanitary Pads, Cramp Comfort (India’s first unique self-heating patch), Foaming Intimate Wash, 1mm Everyday Liners & Uplift (period nutrition drink mix) are made by us but are created by our community of over 4 Lakh women who wanted to start a new and improved wellness journey.

As for our dream, it just got bigger from where we started. As of today, we continue to transform the women’s wellness space in India through safe, innovative, inclusive and effective products that are Made Safe Certified and backed by science.

About the role

Nua's storefront team is looking for a senior front end developer. You will work on building next-gen web applications using VueJS/ReactJS and a wide array of front-end technologies. The UI layers have to be highly responsive, beautiful, performant and work for consumer sites and mobile apps. You will be working closely with the Product, and QA team to build and launch the product.

Must Have Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in building highly scalable UI on the Web/Mobile.
• Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript, various JavaScript libraries and micro frameworks (Vuejs/Reactjs Prototype, Backbone), HTML and CSS.
• Knowledge of Vuejs/React Framework- at least 1-2 years.
• Expert knowledge of CSS, CSS extension languages (Less, Sass), and CSS preprocessor tools.
• Excellent proficiency in responsive design and performance optimization techniques for the web and mobile web.
• Knowledge of selenium or any other testing framework is a plus
• Working knowledge of a backend programming language (PHP/Java/C#).
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-directed team player who thrives in a continually changing environment
• Experience in working with Magento 2.x would be a plus

What’s in it for you

• An opportunity to work in one of India’s most innovative digital, direct-to-consumer brands
• Experience a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to part of a fast-growing company at an early stage
• Steep learning curve with exposure to wider marketing and community management teams’ functions
• A performance-based environment with no limits to career growth and personal development