Senior UI Engineer

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on SDE 3 - FE to build and optimize scalable, user-friendly applications with a focus on micro frontend architectures. The ideal candidate will blend strong UI engineering skills with modern frontend practices, ensuring responsive, secure, and high-quality experiences aligned with business needs.

Responsibilities

●      Design & Build: Develop scalable, performant front-end applications using React, TypeScript, and Micro Frontend architecture.

●      Code Quality: Review PRs, enforce best practices, and introduce patterns to reduce technical debt.

●      UI/UX Excellence: Deliver pixel-perfect, responsive, and accessible UIs across devices and browsers.

●      Performance: Optimise rendering, bundling, caching, and load times for smooth user experiences.

●      Mentorship: Guide and mentor mid/junior engineers, run design/code walkthroughs, and foster a culture of technical excellence.

●      AI-driven Development: Leverage AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and documentation in day-to-day workflows.

Criteria:

Experience: ~5–7+ years in software development, with proven expertise in React, modern frontend architectures, and building scalable user interfaces.

Technical Skills

●      Strong proficiency in React.js (v17+), TypeScript, and modern frontend workflows.

●      Experience with Micro Frontend architectures (e.g., Module Federation, Webpack, or similar approaches).

●      Solid expertise in HTML5, CSS3, and mandatory proficiency with Bootstrap for responsive design.

●      Knowledge of Blade templates for frontend-backend integration.

●      Good-to-have: Tailwind CSS and Material UI for component-based design systems.

●      Deep understanding of state management (Redux, Recoil, or equivalent).

●      Experience with frontend performance optimisation and browser dev tools.

●      Familiar with testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress).

●      Proficiency with Docker and containerised environments.

●      Experience with CI/CD pipelines for frontend deployments.

●      Ability to effectively use AI-powered tools for code generation, refactoring, documentation, and productivity improvements.

Soft Skills

●      Clear and effective communication.

●      Strong sense of ownership and accountability.

●      Ability to break down complex problems and provide accurate estimates.

●      Openness to adopt new tools/technologies to improve team efficiency.

What we offer:

●      An exceptional team: Our hiring bar is high, and your colleagues are talented, motivated self-starters.

●      A learning environment: We are a learning organisation, and as a team, we will help you grow and encourage you to learn and upgrade your skills.

●      Outstanding compensation: top talent deserves top pay, and our salary, equity and benefits reflect this.

●      Opportunities to grow: Encourages you to attend technical conferences and take company funded educational courses to advance your skills.

●      An opportunity to be a key member of a well-capitalised, leading brand in an online real estate investing platform.

● Experience Level: Min 2+ years

● JavaScript/Typescript and React Native.

● Experience using technologies like React Native, Redux/MobX/Saga, TypeScript, modern CSS frameworks and webpack.

● Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle {Android Studio, IntelliJ}

● RESTful API’s, basic HTTP knowledge, GET/POST.

● Good Communication Skills

• 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!

Job Description:

• 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.
• Understanding of React.js and its core principles.
• Familiar with newer specifications of ES6 and RESTful APIs.
• Debugging browser-based and performance testing software.
• Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
• Documenting application changes and developing updates.

Reporting Structure:

• This position reports to the Team Leader - Technology.

Job Specifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a similar field.
• 3+ years of working with complex front-end development in HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Sass/Less, AJAX and JSON.
• 3+ years of working with React.js is a must.
• Knowledge of React tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, Context API, and Flux performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, decision making and technical ability.

• Meeting with the design team to discuss the needs of the company.
• Building and configuring Magento 1x and 2x eCommerce websites.
• Coding of the Magento templates.
• Developing Magento modules in PHP using best practices.
• Designing themes and interfaces.
• Setting performance tasks and goals.
• Troubleshooting integration issues.
• Updating website features and security patches.

UI Architect / Developer

1.       A must have skills is Angular. NodeJs preferred but can be replaced with anything on server side scripting.  

a.       70% work for this role in angular based. At architect role without server side scripting understanding doesn’t a right fit. 

b.       Someone who can take sound decision for overall interaction with backend.  

c.        There are components written in node (Control Manager and aith server) which we have intentions to align with UI architect.  

d.       Given Node is technology primary in java script (same as angular), generally we are seeing people who have earlier exposure or are confident to pick it with little learning. But we would not penalize anyone who is week in node, but champ in angular for this role. 

2.       Design , develop and maintain client facing web applications. 

3.       Cooperating with backend developers in the process of building REST APIs. 

4.       Should demonstrate deep understanding of the following: 

·         Design - HTML/CSS  

·         Frontend languages - Experience with Javascript  and related frameworks - Angular(7/8/9), Angular Material, Bootstrap(or similar CSS frameworks), Node JS (preferred but not mandatory). 

·         Test frameworks - Mocha, Chai, Jasmine, Karma 

To be shared by you - 

1.     Can you lead frontend-backend integration? 

2.     Can you use linux machines? 

3.     Are you aware of websockets? 

4.     Has you workedon binary data communication over websockets? 

5.     Do you understand different types of communication protocols available between frontend-backend and it's working? 

6.       Do you have experience on electron framework? 

7.       Highest team size managed by you.