UX Engineer

At Shipthis, we work to build a better future and make meaningful changes in the freight forwarding industry. Our team members aren't just employees. We are comprised of bright, skilled professionals with a single straightforward goal—to Evolve Freight forwarders towards Digitalized operations, enhance efficiency, and drive lasting change.

As a company, we're just the right size for every person to take initiative and make things happen. Join us in reshaping the future of logistics and be part of a journey where your contributions make a tangible difference.

Learn more at www.shipthis.co

JOB DESCRIPTION

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the frontend of Shipthis's suite of SaaS products
• Drive the implementation of new technologies and architect frontend solutions to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Work closely with backend developers to ensure seamless integration of APIs and data between the front and back end.
• Define and enforce coding standards, guidelines, and best practices for the team, ensuring high code quality and performance.
• Actively participate in planning and strategy discussions, contributing to technical decisions that influence the product roadmap.
• Troubleshoot and resolve high-priority technical issues, ensuring the stability and performance of the system in production environments.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers and product managers to shape the user experience, ensuring that complex data workflows are intuitive and accessible.
• Mentor and guide junior developers within the team, providing code reviews and feedback to ensure quality and best practices are followed.
• Stay current with industry trends and developments, recommending tools, libraries, and processes to improve the frontend development workflow.

Desired qualifications include:

• 2+ years of experience in frontend development with a solid track record of delivering successful web applications.
• Experience leading frontend teams or working as a senior developer in a collaborative environment.
• Proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks (preferably Angular 12+), along with a strong understanding of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Proven ability to architect scalable frontend solutions for large, complex web applications.
• Experience with performance optimization techniques, code-splitting, lazy loading, and browser rendering behavior.
• Familiarity with frontend testing frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Jest, Jasmine, or Cypress).
• Strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to work effectively across teams and with stakeholders at all levels.
• Solid understanding of web development principles, including responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards.
• Knowledge of backend / ionic apps for android/iOS
• A strong portfolio of previous frontend work that demonstrates technical depth and design skills.

We welcome candidates

• Who is Immediate Joining
• Female candidates returning to work after a career break are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

JOB SYNOPSIS:

• Job Role: Frontend Engineer
• Location: Bangalore
• Job type: Full-time, permanent
• Experience (2-3) years
• Industry Type: Software Product
• Functional Area: Software Development

What you’ll do: 

● Own and build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reusable front-end abstractions 

and systems. 

● Explore and design lively and compelling consumer experiences. 

● Ensure that all the assigned systems are performing to scale. 

● Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes 

● You will mentor junior engineers on design and proper coding practices 

What you will need: 

● A deep expertise in React, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3. 

● Understanding of browser internals and a basic understanding of the network stack. 

● Understanding of common design patterns followed in front-end projects. 

● Basic awareness of application security practices and deployment techniques for front-end projects. 

● Should have sound knowledge in computer science fundamentals like data structure, object-oriented 

programming and possess excellent communication skills. 

• 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!

We are looking for a passionate Sr.Software Engineer to design, develop and maintain the software solutions. The successful candidate will be able to build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software in compliance with coding standards and technical design. The candidate should have working knowledge in the specialist area of

Core JAVA, JSP,Servlet, JavaScript, JQuery/Angular and HTML 5

Spring Boot Framework , Hibernate/JPA,

REST API using the Java,

GIT / GitHub/SVN,

And MySQL/Oracle

Note : JSP,Servlet and Spring Boot is must

Added Advantage

Educational Qualifications: 

BE / MCA

Relevant Experience:

5+ years of work experience.

Working 6 days per week

Behaviors: