Senior Front end engineer

• 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!

JOB OVERVIEW

Responsible for the front-end development of user interfaces ensuring an enhanced user experience. Follow

emerging trends, adhere to development best practices, and help make improvements to existing web pages,

emails, and all other user interfaces/experiences.

we will need some stronger UX skills to round out the rest of the team (comfortable working with figma and creating responsive/pixel perfect designs

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work in collaboration with Callaway Golf Designers to turn their vision into functional HTML templates

integrated into SAP Hybris across international sites and multiple brands

• Work in collaboration with backend developers to ensure proper implementation of website data and

functionality.

• Help manage projects through the design, development, and QA processes

• Continue to expand knowledge of new technologies, as well as strengthen current knowledge base

• Build responsive sites for mobile and desktop web experiences.

• Follow the latest advancements in front end technologies and techniques.

• Review code and mentor other developers on best-practices for front end development.

• Help import content and product data into sites using a multi-country model including localization and site[1]specific catalogs

• Help integrate images from digital asset management system

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):

• Experience developing web-based responsive applications

• Fluent in HTML/CSS/JavaScript and able to develop rich client experiences from mock-ups from the ground

up

• Experience using established CSS architecture patterns for code reuse and modularity such as BEM,

SMACSS and others

• Experience with CSS pre-processors such as LESS or SASS

• Experience building responsive templates using bootstrap

• Front end and visualization experience using JavaScript and extensive experience with jQuery Libraries,

React.js, underscore, or native JS for DOM manipulation.

• Experience using HTML markup languages such as JSTL to create high performing applications

• Experience with CMS platforms, such as WordPress, Shopify or Hybris

• Experience using web templating engines

• Extensive knowledge of respective browser compatibility issues (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome).

• Experience integrating iframes

• Experience loading product and content data onto management tools

• Experience working with RESTful JSON Web Services is a plus

• Experience with front end build tools such as webpack, gulp, grunt, etc.

• Experience with development processes including git

• Experience in working with client and offshore team to ensure seamless delivery.

• Creative, artistic and understanding of how human interacts with computer

• An impeccable eye for detail with the ability to match your UI to any design in a cross-browser and device

environment

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an affinity for problem-solving

• Ability to self-manage during projects and proactively raise issues/concerns to the team

• A desire to own a project from beginning to end, with a strong sense of pride in a job exceptionally done

This person MUST have: 

- BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent 

- Extreme CSS skills 

- Experience with ReactJS or NextJS is a MUST 

- Strong communication skills 

- A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code. 

- Sound knowledge of clean code, no unused code, optimized code and more. - Always starting with a document and then implementing in a systematic and organized manner 

- Past experience as a frontend developer building modern JavaScript-based web applications - Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing skills. 

Experience: 

- Min 3 year experience 

- Not more than 15 year experience. 

- Startup experience is a must. 

Location 

- Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings: 

- 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. Typically clients are in California PST Timezone. 

Position: 

- Full time/Direct 

- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc. 

- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period. 

• Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.
• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Identifying web-based user interactions.
• Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using react concepts.
• Writing application interface codes using JavaScript following react.js workflows.
• Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.

Frontend Developer - React JS/progressive Web App (2+ yrs experience)

Experienced in developing applications using Javascript, ReactJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, HTML5, CSS3/CSS4 and other UI technologies.
Experience in building rich PWA applications.
Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation 
Deliver across the entire app life cycle - concept, design, built, deploy, test
In depth data structure and algorithm developement experience