Senior Software Development Engineer

At Shipthis, we work to build a better future and make meaningful changes in the freight forwarding industry. Our team members aren't just employees. We are comprised of bright, skilled professionals with a single straightforward goal—to Evolve Freight forwarders towards Digitalized operations, enhance efficiency, and drive lasting change.

As a company, we're just the right size for every person to take initiative and make things happen. Join us in reshaping the future of logistics and be part of a journey where your contributions make a tangible difference.

Learn more at www.shipthis.co

JOB DESCRIPTION

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the frontend of Shipthis's suite of SaaS products
• Drive the implementation of new technologies and architect frontend solutions to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Work closely with backend developers to ensure seamless integration of APIs and data between the front and back end.
• Define and enforce coding standards, guidelines, and best practices for the team, ensuring high code quality and performance.
• Actively participate in planning and strategy discussions, contributing to technical decisions that influence the product roadmap.
• Troubleshoot and resolve high-priority technical issues, ensuring the stability and performance of the system in production environments.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers and product managers to shape the user experience, ensuring that complex data workflows are intuitive and accessible.
• Mentor and guide junior developers within the team, providing code reviews and feedback to ensure quality and best practices are followed.
• Stay current with industry trends and developments, recommending tools, libraries, and processes to improve the frontend development workflow.

Desired qualifications include:

• 2+ years of experience in frontend development with a solid track record of delivering successful web applications.
• Experience leading frontend teams or working as a senior developer in a collaborative environment.
• Proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks (preferably Angular 12+), along with a strong understanding of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Proven ability to architect scalable frontend solutions for large, complex web applications.
• Experience with performance optimization techniques, code-splitting, lazy loading, and browser rendering behavior.
• Familiarity with frontend testing frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Jest, Jasmine, or Cypress).
• Strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to work effectively across teams and with stakeholders at all levels.
• Solid understanding of web development principles, including responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards.
• Knowledge of backend / ionic apps for android/iOS
• A strong portfolio of previous frontend work that demonstrates technical depth and design skills.

We welcome candidates

• Who is Immediate Joining
• Female candidates returning to work after a career break are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

JOB SYNOPSIS:

• Job Role: Frontend Engineer
• Location: Bangalore
• Job type: Full-time, permanent
• Experience (2-3) years
• Industry Type: Software Product
• Functional Area: Software Development

• Job Title - Frontend Software Engineer - Data
• Reports Into - Senior Software Engineer - Data
• 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 a Frontend Software Engineer in the Data Science Team, you will build tools and develop technology that deliver data products to a team of strategists, marketing experts and game developers. You will design, build, test and deploy products which serve a company fuelled by data.

Your Team Mates

The Data Science team is central in developing the technology behind the growth and monetisation of our games. We are a cross functional team that consists of analysts, engineers and data scientists, and work closely with the larger engineering team to deliver products spanning our modern, cloud first, tech stack.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Develop and maintain user-friendly and visually appealing web applications using Vue.js
• Create interactive and informative data visualisations for general audiences as well as highly specialised teams
• Integrate with large, complex data sources and machine learning models via APIs
• Work within a data focused team to increase access to and the understanding of test and analysis results within game development, marketing and other aspects of 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 VueJS but could also be others e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, Svelte)
• Knowledge of data visualisation libraries and techniques
• Understanding of REST APIs, asynchronous programming, and data handling
• An excellent working knowledge of various database, scripting, and development tools, for example bash, Python, Postgres, MySQL, CouchBase, git, JIRA
• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best

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!

• Write performant code using core Vue, Vuex, and Vue Router to create websites and web applications 
• Create tests for code written by yourself and other web developers, full-stack developers, and software engineers
• Integrate Vue into legacy projects
• Diagnose and fix bugs and other software defects in new and existing Vue applications
• Run code optimization tools and analyzers to spot and refactor inefficiencies to create highly performant code

• Bachelor’s degree or several years of experience in enterprise products, computer science, or other related fields
• Strong understanding of JavaScript and React JS, including the latest revisions of ECMAScript
• Good knowledge of the Vue.js framework and related components such as Vuex and Vue Router
• Experience with standard tools and services in JavaScript front-end development and software development, such as Git, JIRA, HTML5, Laravel, Angular, Node.js, and npm
• The ability to work as part of a team, taking ownership of individual components and following coding guidelines to create performant components that fit into more-comprehensive projects
• An understanding of advanced JavaScript concepts, such as dealing with asynchronous requests and dynamic content 
• Experience with integrating and maintaining external software libraries and APIs using a command-line interface and package managers

Your key responsibilities will be converting PSD/Figma into HTML/CSS. You will also be responsible for writing clean, semantic front end code - HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Java Script.

Selection Criteria
If your profile has selected then you have to attend a 3 hours assignment to move your candidature to the final round of interview.

• Seek to enhance the user experience by creating seamless navigation through various digital programs and interfaces within the company
• Use coding to develop the aesthetics implemented within a website or product, from the layout menus and drop-down options to colors and fonts
• Combine interface design concepts with digital design and establish milestones to encourage cooperation and teamwork
• Develop overall concepts for improving the user experience within a business webpage or product, ensuring all interactions are intuitive and convenient for customers
• Collaborate with back-end web developers and programmers to improve usability

• 2-4 years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing UI development
• Detailed experience with coding and the ability to troubleshoot and analyze websites using HTML, CSS and comparable languages
• Continued education and research into UI development trends and current design strategy and technology
• Professional written and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple milestones and projects efficiently
• Advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to optimize code for the best possible outcome
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment to create top-performing interfaces
• Proficient with visual design programs such as Adobe Photoshop

• A self-driven UI engineer with an eye for detail UI Design and Development
• Build solutions that’ll be used by thousands of enterprises globally
• Meld UX and great looking UI and Wireframe while keeping excellent code quality
• Thrive in a collaborative team environment and work with challenging timelines
• Design and build web apps that are scalable, puts user experience front and center
• Develop modular UI components for company-wide reuse
• Evolve a common design language for UI across apps
• Establish and advocate front-end coding guidelines
• Iterate UI features with high speed
• Work with ambiguous product requirements and shared backend APIs

REQUIREMENT-

• 2-4 years of experience with working on UI frameworks like Angular
• Experience in product companies would be a plus
• Must have a solid understanding of JavaScript and related libs, CSS
• Big plus if familiar with Django, Flask, Postgres, Linux, Git, AWS
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code
• Ability to define cross-core contracts and bring them to closure through collaboration.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of Git and proficiency with Jenkin

Work Location: Hyderabad

J.D:

• Minimum 3+ years of professional experience in Angular 2+ and above, React JS and scripting Language.
• Excellence in modern JavaScript, HTML5 and design patterns.
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, React testing library, server side rendering, and Type script.
• Validating user input on the client side and implementing meaningful feedback.
• Skill in designing a modern build process that integrates testing and continuous delivery.
• Hands-on experience with creating configuration, build, and test scripts for continuous integration environments.

• Ability to design the overall architecture of UI components of the web application.
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Maintain code integrity and organization.
• Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection.
• Good problem-solving skills and willingness to learn new technology

Qualifications:-

• 2+ year track record of relevant work experience and a Computer Science or a related technical discipline is required
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript
• Proficient experience in ReactJS.
• OOPS, Concept, and Data Structure like Queue, Stack, Tree, Linked List, etc.
• Good knowledge in working with REST APIs
• Knowledge of converting designs to working web pages using HTML and CSS.
• Experience in Architecture and delivery of web applications.
• Knowledge of code versioning tool – Git

Good to have:

• Experience in AngularJS
• Experience in server-side programming