UI Developer

There are various job roles within software development, each with its own focus and responsibilities. Some common job roles include:

1. **Software Engineer/Developer**: This role involves designing, developing, and testing software applications or systems.

2. **Front-end Developer**: Front-end developers focus on creating the user interface and experience of websites or applications using languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

3. **Back-end Developer**: Back-end developers work on the server-side of applications, managing databases, servers, and application logic using languages like Python, Java, or Node.js.

4. **Full-stack Developer**: Full-stack developers have expertise in both front-end and back-end development, allowing them to work on all aspects of an application.

5. **Mobile App Developer**: Mobile app developers specialize in creating applications for mobile devices, often using platforms like iOS (Swift) or Android (Java/Kotlin).

6. **DevOps Engineer**: DevOps engineers focus on streamlining the development process by automating tasks, managing infrastructure, and ensuring smooth deployment and operation of software.

7. **Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer**: QA engineers are responsible for testing software to ensure it meets quality standards and is free of bugs or errors.

8. **UI/UX Designer**: UI/UX designers work on designing the user interface and experience of software applications, focusing on usability and aesthetics.

• 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

We are looking for a Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

Responsibilities

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting it to the back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Skills And Qualifications:

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding of ( Developer should know advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS, etc.)
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
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• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as (Git / SVN)

Job Brief:

We are seeking a skilled WordPress developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience in developing and maintaining WordPress websites, plugins, and themes.

The exciting part of joining our organization is here for you. Once you complete a career span of 1year and above in our company based on your performance, you will get an opportunity to work in our onshore office in "Australia".

Responsibilities

• Develop custom WordPress websites, plugins, and themes based on client requirements
• Modify existing WordPress websites, plugins, and themes
• Troubleshoot and fix any WordPress-related issues
• Optimize website performance, security, and SEO
• Collaborate with designers, content creators, and project managers to ensure timely and successful project completion
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in WordPress development

Requirements

• Proficient in PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL
• Proven experience with WordPress development
• Strong understanding of WordPress architecture and APIs
• Familiarity with popular WordPress plugins and frameworks
• Experience with version control systems such as Git
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and time-management skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity to work on exciting projects for a diverse range of clients
• Collaborative and supportive work environment
• Continuous learning and growth opportunities

If you are a talented WordPress developer looking for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you!

Is software engineering your passion? Are you always hungry for challenges? Do you like to take risks?  Do you always crave to learn more and more? Do you like to help others solve their problems? Do you like to solve complex problems by simple methods?

• Culture to promote learning and growth by relentless focus on innovation.
• A team of aces to work with
• Streamlined engineering processes woven around Agile methodology with the help of tools
• Design led engineering focus
• Opportunity to work on B2B and B2C products in various domains like healthcare & education

• Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies 

You have:

• Proficiency in Angular 4+, Typescript, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML/CSS
• Thorough understanding of OOJS & commonly used design principles and design patterns
• Working knowledge of State management using NgRxState management & custom npm packages
• Hands on ES6 features to reduce code and keep code clean
• Working knowledge of RxJS
• Working experience in writing automated unit tests using Jasmine, Mocha or any other similar framework.
• Experience of integrating RESTful Web APIs in Web Application.
• Written efficient and production ready code
• Working experience building high performance and scalable applications
• Ability to troubleshoot and debug application for functional and common problems
• At least 6 years of experience in software development 
• Knowledge of databases - NoSQL or RDBMS. 
• Experience working with version control like Git / Bitbucket
• Experience working in Agile Scrum Methodology
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Experience working on Web APIs
• Working knowledge of modern programming/scripting languages and runtime environments including node.js, Python/Ruby/Java, and experience in mid-tier web services development.
• Experience building proof of concepts, architecting new systems, and improving existing systems to solve business problems and support scaling
• Exposure to various tools that help in maintaining code quality like SonarQube
• Exposure with Atlassian JIRA application lifecycle management tool
• Exposure to Cloud Platforms like Azure or AWS or GCP

• Collaborate with engineering, design and product teams to build and ship new features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product using Agile methodologies.
• Maintain and improve web applications. Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Self-contribution & able to manage and execute work through team members.
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Create proof of concepts to demonstrate feasibility of proposed solution
• Continuously discover, evaluate and learn new technologies to stay at the forefront of technology innovation
• Write good quality, modular, reusable, well documented, unit-tested code.

We are looking for a smart, passionate hands-on engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible to drive innovation in full-stack development of complex web applications, while improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

You should:

1. Have thorough knowledge of JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap.
2. Be familiar with different PHP CMS (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla) and frameworks.
3. Be able to unit test the code components; Document the code and the functionality.
4. Be a good and quick learner, and open to learn new technologies in JavaScript Frameworks.
5. Good to have experience in MySQL/ MariaDB databases.
6. Good to have experience working with outside data sources and API’s.
7. Have Good Communication skills.

1. Deliver stable and scalable solutions in HTML, and JavaScript
2. Update existing components to support changing needs.
3. Improve the internal team culture of high-quality software development.
4. Cooperate with team members on maintaining existing solutions beyond means of code development.
5. Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

What we offer:

• Various challenges ranging from scratch design/architecture to end-user experienced performance.
• Flexible working process, openness to suggestions and a fresh point of view.
• Room for self-improvement and knowledge exchange within the team.
• Close cooperation with Customer Experience Team providing actual feedback on end-user experience.
• Transparent cooperation with business stakeholders.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model 
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows for state management (such as Redux/Mobx)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs 
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc. 
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization 
• Experience in Python or Java/Kotlin development