Why us?
We at Wow Labz are always striving to look for exciting problems to solve. Whether we’re creating new products or helping a small startup extend its reach, we build from our heart. We’re entrepreneurial and we love new ideas. Fun culture with a team that cares about your development and growth.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for an experienced game designer working primarily with Unity to be a part of our exciting game development team at Wow Labz. You would be part of a team that is working on designing and developing the future of games and interactive experiences.
We are creating amazing experiences and hub worlds in the metaverse which integrate with our blockchain protocols to offer unique experiences.
Your primary responsibilities would be prototyping various hub zones within the virtual world in Unity, developing scenes and environments as per the project requirement and also implementing various characters and avatars into the game world. You will also work with the backend team to integrate the world into a multiplayer experience.
Please be sure to highlight the following in your resume:
- Publicly accessible links to games you have built and deployed. These need to be Unity based. (Please provide links to these)
- 3D work you have done in Blender or Maya. (Please provide links to these)
- List of certifications you have completed on Unity (optional).
Responsibilities
- Create a fun, casual adventure world with various hubs and a marketplace!
- Create collectibles and architect an economy system inside the game.
- Create and design fun 3D models and avatars for the Player as well as NPCs. Work with cool libraries like Mixamo to implement fun animations and player world navigation systems.
- Create exciting and custom face models for 3D characters!
- Create and customize player animation trees and character animations while working with state-machines and co-op animations. Create fun emotes and player actions!
- Create awesomely fun multiplayer user-to-user interactions and emotes.
- Design responsive game UX/UI in Unity for various screen sizes and orientations.
- Prototype and deploy scenes in a quick and efficient way and iterate on levels quickly.
- Integrate smart and performance-effective lighting techniques in-game based on time-of-day and other factors.
- Work with materials, textures and shaders for environmental objects as well as characters.
- Implement programmatic and spatial 3D sound in-game.
- Work with Cinemachine cameras and Timeline to create cut-scenes and programmatic camera movements.
- Create performant and optimized scenes. (Prefabs, reusable components, singletons).
- Profile and improve performance for mobile (Unity profiler, Rendering optimization).
Required Skills & Experience:
- 2+ years of minimum production experience in Unity game development.
- Must have released at least 1 game commercially.
- Team player and takes responsibility for work, handles feedback well.
- Strong working knowledge of Unity systems like Prefabs, Animations, UI, TextMeshPro, Profiler, Cinemachine, Terrain, 3D Sound, etc.
- Experience working with Blender, Maya and 3D pipeline for game dev.
- Strong grasp of Photoshop or other image manipulation tools.
- Strong AR/VR and Metaverse understanding is a bonus.
- Good knowledge of Unity C#.
- Experience with Git. (Unity Collaborate and PlasticSCM is a bonus)
- Knowledge of Visual Scripting is a bonus.
- Highly capable of executing in a fast-paced, virtual, changing environment
- Strong problem-solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills
Any of this is a BIG PLUS:
- Hands-on experience with developing Multiplayer games.
- Platform experience with releasing on Android and iOS.
- Experience writing custom shaders in Unity.
Persona of the kind of people who would be a culture fit:
- Curious and aware of the latest digital and social media trends
- Avid Gamer who is knowledgeable about the latest gaming trends
- Strong relationship-building skills
- Exceptional analytical reasoning, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills
- Extremely self-driven and able to execute in a diligent manner
- Get a kick out of leading a solution towards its completion
- Fun to hang out with!
About Wow Labz
We aspire to build products that touch the lives of a billion people worldwide.
Our Journey:
Long story short... Bunch of motivated guys joined together to make a difference and build something. We worked tirelessly to create a kick@$$ team to provide customer delight to our exhilarating customers. Day in and day out, there were late nights, lots of coding, lots of partying – work hard, play harder was the motto. After 10 years, it’s still the same motivation and passion that drives the team.
Our Team:
One big crazy family... Fixers, doers, beer lovers, food lovers and from all facets of life all joined together for a common goal. We aren’t perfect but we are a passionate bunch of human beings that work hard and party harder. Getting the best out of each other is encouraged and striving to be the finest versions of ourselves.
Our Clients:
An extended family... We don’t build accounts, we build relationships. Customer delight is extremely important to us and we work with our clients closely in each aspect of the product. Like partners in spirit. Their success is our success and we take pride in delivering great work that puts a smile on their face. Happy clients = happy us.
Our Contribution:
Express gratitude... Members of our Wow team have founded some amazing product, startup and design communities. We volunteer, speak at events, drive workshops, mentor startup founders, and contribute to open source. It gives us that warm mushy feeling that we all love.
Our Culture:
It's in our DNA to strive to go the extra mile.
Codes to live by:
Excellence - We strive to be the best at whatever we do
Measurement - We never stop learning and growing
Surprise - We do wow things that people don’t expect
Critique - We are open to giving and receiving feedback
Bias for Action - We do instead of wait, if we mess up, we learn
Speed - We consistently optimise for efficiency
Party - We let the good times roll
Love - We put our heart and soul into our work and our people
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Job Title - Software Engineer - Frontend
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Reports Into - Lead Frontend Web Developer
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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?
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Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
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Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
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Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win
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Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA
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Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
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On site gym - take care of yourself
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Relocation support - available
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Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars
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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?
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Implementing designs for our website/web tools created by our design team
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Create and update interactive interfaces used throughout the company
Your Hard Skills
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Minimum 2 years browser-based programming experience
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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)
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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
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A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best
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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!
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Website
We are looking for a world class Unity Game Developer in Unity game engine for mobile application to help us develop the next generation of mobile casual games. As a developer, you will be working closely with Team to develop 3d unity multiplayer game and maintaining high coding standards.
Skills and Qualifications
- Experience with Unity 3D mobile game development.
- Strong C# object-oriented programming and scripting language skills.
- Experience with unity photon multiplayer and Rest API integration.
- Experience working with game assets (animations, materials, etc).
- Experience profiling and optimizing the game and render performance (GPU and CPU).
- Experience working on a physics-based game project, source control systems such as Git in a multi-developer team environment.
Location- Pune, Baner ( Work from the office)
Exp- 0 to 2years
Job Type- Permanent
Skills- Angular, c+, c#, Asp.net
NP_ Immediate
Technologies: React JS
Experience: 3 to 8 years
Notice Period: Immediate joiner
Job Location: Kalyani Nager, Pune, MH
Job Summary
Looking for React JS developers who will be responsible for architecting and building applications, as
well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure.
Responsibilities and Duties:-
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Responsible for development of new highly-responsive, web-based user interface
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Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
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Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
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Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical
software fixes—React Native moves fast and often breaks things.
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Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
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Transition existing React web apps to React Native.
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Construct visualizations that are able to depict vast amounts of data
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Work and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team
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Work with product team and graphic designers
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Develop a flexible and well-structured front-end architecture, along with the APIs to support it
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications:-
● Experience with automated testing suites, like (Jest or Mocha)
● Experience with JavaScript, REACT, HTML / CSS, REST API's
● Experience with Git knowledge is a plus
● Hands on Redux
●Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle (Android Studio, IntelliJ)
●Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
- Synthesize business requirements and translate them to appropriate technology solutions.
- Product development for C# and SQL based solutions.
- Modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
- Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure specifications are met.
- Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
- Think strategically and balance short-term needs with longer-term business priorities
- Challenge status quo and champion new ideas throughout cross functional organizations; ability to inspire confidence and trust with peers and cross functional business teams
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Chemical Engineering or related field
- 4+ years overall and as a C# programmer and 1.5+ years in WPF.
- Should have hands on experience on desktop application development using UWP or WPF
- Should have worked on WPF in recent projects.
- Well versed in C#, SQL, HTML5, Java Script, ASP.NET, WPF, and MVC
- Excellent communication skills
- Team oriented
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with project management methodology, Agile/Scrum and TFS or JIRA
- Proven experience working directly with end customers or internal business units
- Prior experience working with global development teams
- Experience in IoT environments
- Experience in working in Azure
The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the product development and maintenance. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.
Responsibilities:
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
- Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
- Coordinate cross-functionally to ensure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
- Support test and deployment of new products and features
- Analyze and resolve performance bottle necks
- Participate in code reviews
Technical:
- Expert in Programming using Angular 4/6/8, C#, Web API, Entity Framework, LINQ to Entities.
- Should have strong database design and development skills in Relational DBMS and Non-Relational Databases (No SQL).
- Experience in integrations
- Strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies – Agile/Scrum
- Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, Design Concepts & Whitebox Unit Testing
- Good understanding of Web Security Concepts
- Experience in hosting & maintenance of applications in virtual servers with CI/CD
Qualification:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of relevant work experience
- Must have experience in product development
Work Location: Remote (Anywhere in Hyderabad)