Senior UI developer (ReactJS)

What We’re Looking for in You:

1. Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

2. Certifications: NA

3. The Experience That Sets You Apart:

● Lead the development of responsive, pixel-perfect web interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

● Set and maintain frontend coding standards, structure, and best practices

● Collaborate with designers to bring UI/UX concepts to life with clean, maintainable code. ● Optimize web pages for performance, SEO, and cross-browser/device compatibility.

● Guide and mentor junior developers through code reviews and technical support.

● Own project timelines, quality assurance, and delivery for all frontend initiatives

4. Your Subject Matter Expertise:

● Team leadership — 2+ years leading 10+ member teams

● Strong communicator — aligns tech and non-tech teams

● Detail-driven — ensures UI and code precision

● Collaborative — fosters teamwork and mentorship

● Organized — manages time and parallel tasks efficiently

● Service-based mindset — experience in ~200-employee setups

● Composed under pressure — delivers in fast-paced environments

● Solution-focused — navigates challenges with clarity

We're seeking skilled front-end developers tasked with creating user-friendly experiences. Working closely with back-end developers, your focus will be on crafting visually appealing layouts, enhancing user interface/interaction, and optimizing overall user experience.

Key Skills Required:

1. Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
2. Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
3. Collaborative mindset to work seamlessly with back-end developers and cross-functional teams.
4. Strong understanding of responsive design principles for various devices and browsers.
5. Knowledge of UI/UX best practices and a keen eye for design aesthetics.
6. Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git.
7. Problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot issues efficiently.
8. Awareness of web performance optimization techniques.
9. Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
10. Continuous learning mindset to stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.

• 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!

About TO THE NEW:

TO THE NEW (TTN) is a technology services company that designs, builds, & runs digital products and platforms for Fortune 500 companies, enterprises, SaaS, and consumer tech companies. We are recognized by global analyst firms like Gartner, Everest, ISG, and Zinnov for our capabilities in Digital Engineering, Cloud, and Data & Analytics. We have deep expertise in Experience design, Open source technologies across Web, Mobility, CMS, diverse Cloud infrastructures, DevOps, Big data & analytics, Quality, and test automation; combined with proven experience in Agile methodologies.

Founded in 2008, TTN is one of the fastest-growing companies with a growth rate of over 60% since 2017. Our passionate team of 2000+ “Newers” is spread across our delivery centers in Delhi, Dubai, NYC, and Sydney. TO THE NEW is a consistent winner of the prestigious ‘Great Place to Work’ award since 2015 and ranked #47 in the ‘Top 100 companies in India to Work’ for in 2019. Recently TTN was also recognized as one of the ‘Top 25 India’s best IT & IT-BPM workplaces’.

We take pride in our culture driven by passion for making an impact through technology and is backed by our emphasis on learning and development. 

Responsibilities:

1. Create high performance, secure, responsive, clean and simple front-end builts in collaboration and discussion with backend developers, designers and product owners

2. Responsibility for resolving all issues assigned in a timely manner

3. Participate in and lead architectural discussions with a group of senior architects

4. Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse

5. Translate designs and style guides into interactive user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility, performance and robustness

6. Deliver high quality code that is maintainable and readable.

7. Develop and maintain features using JavaScript.

8. Our clients would value you for your comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Front-end design and architectures

Requirements:

1. Experience in developing front-end technologies using Object Oriented JavaScript, React.js, HTML, & CSS

2. Understanding of various browser engines

3. Experience to handle cross browser compatibility issues

4. Experience of full software development life cycle and good understanding of version control systems like Git.

5. Experience with an agile development methodology, preferably Scrum

6. Excellent time management, multi-tasking and communication skills

7. Understand the needs of our users and customers at the beginning of each project

8. Provide complete, actionable, and timely technical feedback to your Agile team

9. Mentor fellow and junior engineers

passion for all things JavaScript, having built complex single-page applications on React/Redux for at least 2 years.

Profound understanding of HTML, CSS, and browser capabilities to build beautiful, fast and snappy applications.

Comfortable with jest for writing unit and integration tests/puppeteer for e2e tests.

Curiosity to remain updated with the newest technologies and frameworks. Intuition for usability and UI design, with an ability to balance polish with the constraints of timing and scope.

Comfort with any of WebRTC/Backend Stack/React Native is a strong plus.

Most importantly, love coding and debugging gnarly problems!