Software Engineer III - Frontend

• 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!

JOB SUMMARY

Take part to the development and the maintenance of the FM SAAS Platform.

·    Write technical designs (conception, architecture, data model)

·    Maintain/enhance CI/CD processes ( Basic Knowledge is mandatory)

·    Develop and maintain the platform

·    Support UI developers

·    Identify and resolve incidents

·    Representing FM in global UI architecture meetings

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Customers

Delight our customers by:

·      Delivering high quality, bug free software

·      Respecting customer commitments

·      Respecting UX designs

·      Assisting operations (incl. support, delivery and pre-sales) with subject matter expertise when needed

·      Providing expected effort to solve customer issues

• Understanding fully the FM Strategy

Teamwork

Work together by:

·      Providing a transparent reporting to both the scrum team and the UI team

·      Helping other team members to achieve their commitments

·      Sharing knowledge

·      Driving other UI developers

• Working closely with his/her scrum team
• Working closely with the FM UI team
• Working closely with QA
• Working closely with SRE
• Working closely with the global UI team
• Working closely with the UX team

Innovate

Innovating by:

·      Keeping in touch with latest technologies

·      Sharing (business/technical) ideas with the team and the management

·      Proposing new development tools

·      Proposing enhancement to our CI/CD processes

Improve (KPI’s)

Constantly improving by:

·      Being proactive and autonomous

·      Actively participating to retrospective

·      Communicating with other BT UI teams

·      Helping others

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Required Skills

·      IT Master’s Degree or equivalent such as Engineering school

·      Strong/proven knowledge of Javascript development language

·      Strong/proven knowledge of React and its usual ecosystem

·      Basic knowledge of Docker

·      Strong analytical and algorithmic skills

·      Strong communication skills

·      Autonomy

·      Adaptability

·      Team working skills

·      Ability to propose and discuss API contract with backend tech leads

·      Heightened sense of client service

·      Quality and documentation

·      Sense of responsibility

·      Strong attention to detail

Good to have Skills

·      Rigorous, methodical and organized

·      Ability to work both independently and within a team

·      Knowledge about Single spa

·      Knowledge about Kubernetes

·      Knowledge about GitLab

·      Knowledge about ArgoCD

·      Knowledge of SWIFT banking environment would be an advantage

·      Knowledge of Open Banking would be an advantage

·      Mastery in software engineering tools

Senior React JS Developer

Responsibilities:

Translate Business requirements into Technical Requirements and conceptualize solution by breaking it up into logical units of work.

Plan and execute product roadmap with product manager and other stakeholders.

Develop and implement integration solution with high quality, exception handling and low maintenance in accordance with the project timeline, adherence to global standards/principles, design standards

Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining the project during the transition to production by working closely with production support team during production release and troubleshooting production issues

Responsible for effectively communicating the plan, status and updates to stakeholders and scrum team

Proactively raise issues to Product Owner and Scrum leads when necessary

Independently assess and represent development team - covering all aspects of technical feasibility, complexity and timelines during project / program review meetings.

Lead , manage , mentor team of developers.

Design and build new features, simplify existing services, and scale our systems as we rapidly grow and evolve

Create reusable patterns that improve the consistency of the codebase

Collaborate with your engineering teammates through planning, pairing, testing, reviewing and delivery of the features that you build

Work with the product team to translate powerful ideas into everyday business value

Write sustainable, testable, high-quality, high-performance code

What Makes You a Great Fit

6+ years of relevant front-end development experience writing modular / reusable / Object Oriented / functional Javascript code.

At least 5 years of working experience on React JS framework

Firm grasp of JavaScript (or Typescript) and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax

Strong expertise with HTML5, CSS3  (with media queries) and writing cross-browser compatible code

Grid system understanding

CSS preprocessor experience (SASS or LESS), Responsive design, Accessibility

Familiarity with code versioning tool like GitHub.

Experience with RESTful services

A strong, demonstrable portfolio of past web applications including websites.

Self-motivated, fast learner with attention to detail and quality

Excellent diagnostic, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Required Skills:

6+ Years of experience

Should be able to work independently and must be hands on in development.

Should be able to take a problem and produce an architectural pattern plus a proof of concept utilising best practices when it comes to developing enterprise integration software.

Should have excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Strong proficiency with Spring Boot, Microservices, Spring MVC, Coding and Spring Integration.

Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and asynchronous messaging patterns is required.

Experience with working with process modelling software is a nice to have.

Experience in working with rule based systems is a nice to have.

Strong fundamentals in object oriented programming is a must have.

Experience in working with at least one relational and one no sql database is preferred.

Strong experience in working and designing message structures using xml and json.

Strong knowledge of SDLC Lifecycle Process and Agile Methodology.

Experience in BPMN would be added advantage.

Experience in working with security protocol (e.g. TLS, OAuth) and understands security in development.

Experience with containerization using Docker, orchestration using Kubernetes, Continuous Integration/Delivery tools - Jenkins, Maven, GIT.

Experience in Messaging with MQ based Messaging Systems.

Communication:

Should be able to communicate effectively with product team members, clients and stakeholders.

Clarifies and communicates product objectives and problem solving.

Responsibilities:

• Works as part of a team to continually refresh and enhance our users’ web experiences using an Agile Development Methodology. 

• Build and ship features with an understanding of Javascript, CSS and HTML best practices.

• Coordinate with back-end engineers to provide a cohesive experience.

Must-Have:

• 2+ years of extensive exposure in developing web applications using the latest front-end technologies

• Expertise in the following area:

• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and JS frameworks, such as jQuery,

• Responsive & Adaptive web design

• CSS frameworks like SASS/LESS

• Able to work both independently and in a team environment.

• Adequate knowledge of Version Control Systems like Git

Mandatory Skills to have:

• Drupal Must-Have:

• Prior hands-on experience with Drupal Projects.

The ideal candidate needs to be highly resourceful and innovative developer with extensive experience in the layout, design and coding of websites specifically in Wordpress. You must also possess a strong knowledge of web application development using PHP programming language and MySQL Server databases. 

Responsibilities

• Perform a mix of enhancements, and new development as required
• Work on development or modification of WooCommerce and WordPress plugins to meet the desired functionalities
• Front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Work cross-functionally to convert business needs into technical specifications

Qualifications

• 0-1 years of experience in web development and software design
• Expertise in front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), Wordpress, PHP, and MySQL databases

1. Experience in Website Development.

2. To create web pages through HTML and CSS in alignment with PSD design and themify them. In other words, combine interface design concepts with digital design.

3. The candidate should have hands-on experience in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe creative suite. And should be proficient enough in designing the UI of websites with great user experience.

4. Ability to translate business requirements into system design and perform as per the needs.Capable enough to analyze the user’s choice over graphics and animation needs.

5. Conduct testing of completed applications to assess user experience.

6. Use coding to develop the aesthetics implemented within a website, from the layout menus and drop-down options to colours and fonts.

7. Ensuring all interactions are intuitive and convenient for the audience.

8. Collaborate with back-end web developers and programmers to improve usability.

9. Ensure that the website is optimized for various devices.

10. Coordinate with the testing team and work closely with them and implement the changes as asked by them.

11. The candidate must be ready to take responsibility, ownership of code, be independent, and at the same time is open to learning something new.

12. Basic knowledge of PHP.

We are building a workspace for Marketing teams - Think Webflow for Marketing teams, Grafana for Marketing teams who operate on large data sets and need a clear intuitive interface to look at all their data.

Traditionally Marketing teams have always had to depend on a large BI team to provide them with the data they need to make decisions. Clarisights eliminates this by giving Marketing teams everything they need in one intuitive, collaborative reporting platform.

We work with large enterprise Marketing teams around the world like Delivery Hero - The world's largest food delivery co., HelloFresh the world's largest mealkits delivery co. etc.

Our platform is central to how business teams make decisions and you will work on the interface that these teams use. We are helping non technical business users get comfortable with data by giving them a platform they can use to drive.

What makes this role challenging? Think Google Docs, Slides and Sheets all combined in one platform. We have a collaborative text editor which is used by teams together and we built our table grid which is extremely powerful. Tables, being one of the heaviest and most used widgets we have, have records composed of metric data(averages, share percentages, comparison data), multiple creatives(images, videos, gifs), trends(charts inside each cell) and a lot more.

The huge amount of data points naturally increases the amount of DOM nodes and thus it becomes memory heavy and CPU intensive to run the app in the browser. One table can have 500 records that the users can scroll through at once. Now imagine having 10+ of such tables in one tab, and each report comprising of multiple tabs. And we also support features like drilldowns/breakdowns, column freezing, row freezing, in the tables all while ensuring a smooth user experience.

We decided to build it from scratch using React Virtualize since most table libraries did not give us the performance or features we need. We also extensively use charts to visualize data and as we are scaling, a lot of these components have to be rebuilt to handle the volume of data we process.

We are only getting started, we want to make our platform a lot more collaborative and immersive by giving teams ability to interact with charts by adding annotations and ability to tag team members and leave notes for them. This might seem a solved problem when you look at collaboration on Google Docs but it's an extremely tricky problem for us as we don't deal with static data the way you have it with Google Docs.

Unlike read only dashboards which do not allow edits after building, our platform is meant for collaboration within teams. Think of how shitty collaboration was for design teams before Figma.

We are looking for someone who obsesses over performance and is comfortable with profiling performance, can think of frontend architecture. We are also looking for a lead who can mentor the team on performance and scale.

While working with such complex interfaces, often times, performance and the tech becomes a bottleneck for the user experience we strive for. We are looking for someone who —

• Understands fundamentals of Application Design and has designed/architected applications from scratch.
• Has worked on large-scale applications, and setup/maintained its data pipelines (data flows from backend to frontend)
• Has architected efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications

• 3+ years of JavaScript experience, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types.
• HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross browser compatibility, and accessibility
• Experience with browser APIs and optimizing frontend performance
• Previous experience with dashboard apps, charts framework, window virtualisation
• Has written Generators for project setup
• Comfortable with tech like Postgres, Docker, Rails
• Understands tooling like Webpack, Babel

Experience with React and Typescript is preferable but not necessary.

• Understanding the data flow and familiarise oneself with the app components
• One feature/task like updating something that touches majority of the app — this is again aimed to get familiarity with the whole codebase in the quickest way
• Synchronising the data pipelines by adopting better serialisation protocols
• Creating avenues to improve app performance (by profiling and benchmarking)