UI Developer

We are a B2B SaaS company that is re-imagining how companies use sales incentives to motivate their employees. We believe great results are only achieved when people are motivated - and our product is nothing but an extension of that philosophy.

On a more day-to-day level, our product takes away the ambiguity and grunt-work behind manual sales incentive calculation, and allows companies to experiment with incentive plans that actually work for every employee - and not just top performers. We are a team of experienced founders who between them have built and sold software products pretty much all across the globe. We are backed by some of the best angels and institutional investors in India - and are growing at breakneck speed.

We are seeking a skilled React JS Developer for a three-month contract to join our dynamic team. You will be responsible for developing and implementing user interface components using React.js concepts and workflows such as Redux, Flux, and Webpack. The ideal candidate should have proficient knowledge of React tools, excellent troubleshooting skills, and the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new user-facing features using React.js.
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Past Intership with React.js and its core principles.
• Usage experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

• 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!

Role

Front-end engineers at AssetSprout work on our products. They include software for Certified Financial Planners, their clients, and also internal admin tools. They work with the founders, product designers, and backend engineers and deliver towards the company’s vision.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own product features end to end in a scalable, secure and maintainable way. The buck stops with you on whatever you own.
• Provide technical solutions through design, architecture and implementation. Wear multiple hats in delivering greenfield projects from concept to production. 
• Work with the product and design team in understanding and shaping the customer experience.
• Establish, advocate and bring your experience on coding styles, best practices, and in scaling the product from MVP to production.
• Iterate fast. Display maturity in prioritizing towards velocity while balancing quality. As a startup, we break or make on how fast we deliver.
• Teach and mentor other front-end engineers. Focus on providing technical expertise and solutions regardless of how long one has been working professionally.

Requirements

• Professional experience working with any of the front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, Ember etc.
• Solid expert level understanding of Semantic HTML, CSS and JavaScript concepts.
• Have written automated tests with any of the frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, AVA, Karma etc.
• Able to use CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins etc. and create workflows and pipelines to release to production every other day.
• Good understanding of how a browser parses and renders a web page.
• Understand HTTP requests, Restful APIs and web applications.
• Strong understanding of AWS cloud computing platform and being able to leverage its various services such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild, EKS, ECS etc.

Good-to-haves

• Early or mid-stage startup experience
• Eager to work in a flat organization with no corporate politics
• Positive energy with a get-it-done attitude.
• Worked in a remote environment and high trust and high responsibility role
• Working knowledge of build systems like Gradle, Maven, Bazel, Webpack etc.
• Understand databases, RDMS, and work with SQL

Selected intern's day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Push the limits of web design and create great user experiences

2. Build smooth, stable, and fun products

3. Develop features from design through implementation and launch

4. Evaluate technical tradeoffs of every decision

5. Work with high available infrastructure practices

6. Perform code reviews that guarantee code quality

Other requirements

1. Knowledge in NextJS, React, NodeJS, HTML, JavaScript, CSS,ES6/TypeScript, Redux, React Hooks

2. Basic knowledge on version control and continuous integration systems (e.g., Git)

3. Good to have knowledge of Python, AWS, or Google Cloud

4. Good problem-solving skills, logical thinking ability, strong coding fundamentals

5. Willing to work in the startup environment, challenge yourself and grow

6. Based in Bangalore and willing to work from our office

• software engineering experience focused on web development.
• Hands on experience in architecting large scale frontend applications.
• Have detailed hands-on experience of cutting edge web technologies (HTML5, CSS, Javascript, TypeScript), Application Servers, Web Applications 
• Experience developing UI with JavaScript development frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue, Bootstrap, etc)