WE ARE GRAPHENE

Graphene is an award-winning AI company, developing customized insights and data solutions for corporate clients. With a focus on healthcare, consumer goods and financial services, our proprietary AI platform is disrupting market research with an approach that allows us to get into the mind of customers to a degree unprecedented in traditional market research.

Graphene was founded by corporate leaders from Microsoft and P&G and works closely with the Singapore Government & universities in creating cutting edge technology. We are gaining traction with many Fortune 500 companies globally.

Graphene has a 6-year track record of delivering financially sustainable growth and is one of the few start-ups which are self-funded, yet profitable and debt free.

We already have a strong bench strength of leaders in place. Now, we are looking to groom more talents for our expansion into the US. Join us and take both our growths to the next level!

WHAT WILL THE ENGINEER DO?

• Primary Purpose: As part of a highly productive and creative AI (NLP) analytics team, design and develop web applications and SPA’s i.e., UI/UX, and underlying backend – API’s, security framework, scalable microservices etc.
• Daily Grind: Interface with the product manager, project managers, and the engineering team to achieve sprint goals on the product roadmap.
• Career Progression: Senior Full Stack Engineer, Technical Architect

YOU CAN EXPECT TO

• Work in a product-development team capable of independently authoring software products.
• Guide junior programmers, set up the architecture, and follow modular development approaches.
• Design and develop code which is well documented.
• Optimize of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Adhere to the best Information security and Devops practices.
• Research and develop new approaches to problems.
• Design and implement schemas and databases with respect to the AI application
• Cross-pollinated with other teams.

HARD AND SOFT SKILLS

Must Have

• Problem-solving abilities
• Extremely strong programming background – data structures and algorithm
• Angular/React, Strong UI/UX skills
• Very strong python background, TDD, CI/CD,
• Software design skills i.e., OOPs, design patterns
• SQL, NoSQL – design of schemas and databases
• Microservices architecture, Cloud native apps

Good to Have

• Enterprise Design Patterns
• Distributed Systems
• Exposure to ML and Data Science
• Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, Kafka, Graph databases

Skills required (minimum):

• Knowledge about Web architecture
• Competitive coding
• Experience of web applications
• Knowledge about Git version control systems

Skills better to have (preferred):

• Knowledge about React
• Django, Python
• Conversion of UI/UX designs into code
• Making responsive UIs to efficiently query data and manage states optimally

Perks:

• Certificate
• Letter of Recommendation
• Flexible work hours
• Performance based stipend
• Intrapreneurship - Chance to innovate and be responsible in their own projects/tasks

Duration: 2 months with extension depending on performance & requirements

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game publishers, with well over 600 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D and Makeover Studio 3D. Alongside this, we also have a growing PC and console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS! and Eternal Hope.

With a team of talented people collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, the Philippines and many more, we have a truly global team making games for a global audience. And it’s paying off: Kwalee games have been downloaded in every country on earth! If you think you’re a good fit for one of our remote vacancies, we want to hear from you wherever you are based.

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters for many years, 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. Could your idea be the next global hit?

As Full Stack Engineer you will write code that will run on 100s of servers thousands of times a second helping our games run smoothly, you will have to work out how to deal with massive amounts of data efficiently, train machines to crunch data and generally play around with the latest and greatest in tech.

You love to write efficient code and tackle hard puzzles, you like working with a committed team. 

What you tell your friends you do

“I’m the hero of the day, when actually I only needed to fix one line of code”

 What you will really be doing

• Contributing to the design and architecture of our servers using Python with Flask deployed on AWS EC2 Servers.

• Implementing server features to robustly support millions of mobile game players.

• You’ll be working with a worldwide multi cluster Couchbase and Elasticsearch database.

• Interfacing with other teams on any server-related issues affecting them.

How you will be doing this

• You’ll be part of an agile, multidisciplinary and creative team and work closely with them to ensure the best results.

• You’ll think creatively and will be motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best.

• You’ll work with cutting edge technology, if you need software or hardware to get the job done efficiently, you can get it. We even have a robot!

Team

Our talented team is our signature. We have a highly creative atmosphere with more than 150 staff where you’ll have the opportunity to contribute daily to important decisions. You’ll work within an extremely experienced, passionate and diverse team, including David Darling and the creator of the Micro Machines video games. 

Skills and requirements

• At least 5 years of experience writing high quality database and program code for servers with Python. We are considering different levels of experience (from several months to years).

• The ability to write quick scripts to accelerate manual tasks. 

• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, Memcache,etc.) could be useful but it’s not mandatory.

• Knowledge of Unix, Linux or equivalent development environments

• Some experience in game development would be a plus, although it’s not necessary.

• An avid interest in either console, PC or mobile games.

We offer

• We want everyone involved in our games to share our success, that’s why we have a generous team profit sharing scheme from day 1 of employment

• In addition to a competitive salary we also offer private medical cover and life assurance

• Creative Wednesdays! (Design and make your own games every Wednesday)

• 20 days of paid holidays plus bank holidays

• Great work-life balance with flexible working hours

• Quarterly team building days - work hard, play hard!

• Monthly employee awards

• Free snacks, fruit and drinks
  
  

Our philosophy

We firmly believe in creativity and innovation and that a fundamental requirement for a successful and happy company is having the right mix of individuals. With the right people in the right environment anything and everything is possible.

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Rails Web developer with good communication skills. The Candidate MUST have good communication skills and should be comfortable taking Phone/Video calls with US employees.

Please see below the technical skillset required:

For Front-end:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Strong Proficiency in HTML/CSS and experience with Bootstrap and FontAwesome
• Thorough understanding of ReactJS and its core principles
• Experience with popular ReactJS workflows (such as Flux and Redux)
• Experience with AngularJS
• Experience with NPM and NodeJS
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, etc.
• Experience with popular frameworks like EmberJS, BackboneJS, KnockoutJS and Vue is a plus.

For Backend (Ruby on Rails):

• Solid understanding of Ruby along with Rails 3, 4 and 5
• Solid understanding of gems like with devise, ActiveAdmin, Clockwork, SideKiq, Ransack
• Proficient with ActionCable, EventMachine, Websocket
• Excellent understanding of Rails query interface and DBMS like Mysql, sqlite, postgreSQL
• Proficient in creating test suites using Cucumber, Capybara, RSpecs, Minitests etc
• Proficient in HTML/CSS/Sass
• Experience in AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Capistrano deployments is a plus
• Experience in creating Ruby programs/scripts to automate tasks is a plus
• Experience with CMS systems like BrowserCMS is a plus

General:

• Exp – 9+ yrs
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization is a solid plus
• Experience in GoLang and/or Rails and desire to work on back-end applications is a solid plus