Software Engineer

• 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!

Mandate Skill - Angular , Unit Testing

Please note we are looking for immediate joiners

Designation Offered: Engineer CL 2 – I & II (Software Engineer / Lead Engineer)

UI/UX Developer Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain highly reusable Angular, JavaScript, HTML and CSS code.

• Translate user behavior and research into actionable data.

• Design and create mockups and user journeys for a wide range of devices including mobile.

• Rapid development and testing methodology.

• Ability to clearly communicate research and design ideas to rest of the team and upper management.

• Ability to communicate with the backend to display data in the UI

• Ability to handle graph of different types, real time huge data display in the web page

Position Overview

Front-End UI/UX developer with the combined skillset of application design and web programming. Responsibilities will include converting the UI designs to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will be working on the UI/UX technical implementation of the application functionality.

To be successful in this role, you should have very good experience on programming and interaction with the backend. The team develops web application, mobile based application, which need to display graph, data and image in real time. The candidate should able to display huge data in an efficient way.

Experience:

• A minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in a similar role

Qualification:

• Bachelor of Engineering (BTECH / BE) or Masters (MTECH / MS / MCA ) in Computer Science / Electronics / Information Science from reputed institutions

UI/UX Developer Requirements

• Proficiency with Angular, JSP, HTML, and CSS, bootstrap.

• Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch or other Graphics designing tool

• Good understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks like jquery, Node.js, React.js, Durandal framework.

• Proven work experience as a UI/UX developer or similar role.

• Team spirit, strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders

• Good time-management skills

• Good programming knowledge on design and development of drag and drop activities, graph components and data tables with different options in tables.

Tools

Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop

Front-end languages:

HTML 5, CSS3, jquery, JavaScript, Angular and bootstrap.

Additional skillset

• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.

• Good knowledge on version control tools SVN (Check-in, check-out, branching-merging policies), automated build and release management tool is a plus.

• Strong communication skills (written, verbal), and interpersonal skills to be able to communicate effectively with all levels of staff and external clients.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

We are looking for a qualified WordPress Front-end developer to join our IT team. You will be responsible for building the ‘client-side’ of our web applications. You should be able to translate our company and customer needs into functional and appealing interactive applications.

• WordPress front-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery to create user-friendly web pages

• Experience or in-depth knowledge about the theme customization

• Experience in implementing basic security for websites & plugin understanding

• Maintain and improve website

• Optimize applications for maximum speed

• Design mobile-based features

• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve the usability

• Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers

• Write functional requirement documents and guides

• Create quality mockups and prototypes

• Help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting

• Ensure high-quality graphic standards and brand consistency

• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
  
  

• Proven work experience as a Front-end developer

• Hands-on experience with markup languages

• Experience with WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, SASS, and jQuery

• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging

• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.

• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)

• Understanding of layout aesthetics

• Knowledge of SEO principles would be the cherry on the cake!

• Instrumental in preparing SRS, detailed design document, case diagrams, data flow diagrams, class diagrams.
• Scripting and Programming for varied solutions.
• Constructing specifications and determine operational feasibility.
• Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback & experience on application deployment.
• Writing database script procedures, function & triggers.

• Must be well versed with software development lifecycle (SDLC) management with different project methodologies especially Agile methodology (Scrum).
• Strong Oops concepts, Entity Framework, Design Patterns bootstrap, Web/Windows Services knowledge.
• Working knowledge on C#, ASP.NET, MVC 4.0/5.0, LINQ, Javascript, JQuery, bootstrap, Web/Windows Services.
• Good to have knowledge of Angular JS.
• Must have worked on database like SQL Server/ MySQL.
• Working knowledge on google maps API or GIS would be an added advantage.

• 5-7 years of IT experience. B.E./B.Tech. in Computer Science/ IT or MCA would be preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Candidate should hold 60% & above in 10th, 12th and Graduation