Wordpress Developer

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the development of our platform’s front end.
• Work with the product and design teams along with the founders to build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, implementation, and maintenance.
• Work closely with founders and internal/external stakeholders to build products, tools, and services from scratch and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• You'll leverage your frontend knowledge to help improve performance and reliability, and polish existing features.
• Share your technical expertise to help the team make thoughtful and scalable design decisions and identify performance bottlenecks to troubleshoot quickly.
• Manage product development priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Ensure high-performant and responsive web applications and websites.

Skills & Qualities we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 2-4 years of experience as a frontend developer (rare exceptions for highly skilled developers) at a fast-paced, preferably early / growth stage start-up.
• You're familiar with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a React-like UI framework.
• Knowledge of codebases and version control systems (Git).
• You have experience debugging performance issues with UI in modern browsers across multiple platforms.
• Well-versed with SQL database design & RDBMS concepts.
• Strong arithmetic reasoning, logical and analytical thinking skills.
• Strong knowledge of code quality maintenance and performance analysis.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Shopify Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Shopify development, with a focus on creating custom solutions and apps to enhance e-commerce experiences. As a Senior Shopify Developer, you will be responsible for leading projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving innovation in our e-commerce platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Shopify-based websites, ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and scalability.
• Lead the development of custom Shopify themes, apps, and integrations to meet business requirements.
• Collaborate with designers and stakeholders to translate business goals into technical solutions.
• Optimize website performance and user experience through continuous testing and refinement.
• Stay updated on the latest Shopify trends, tools, and best practices to incorporate into projects.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering their growth and development.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Shopify configuration, functionality, and third-party integrations.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Shopify development, with a strong portfolio showcasing custom Shopify themes and apps.
• Expertise in Shopify Liquid programming language and Shopify APIs.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React.js.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Strong understanding of e-commerce best practices and principles.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

React JS Developers

Experience: 3-6 Years

Location: Bangalore (onsite)

Responsibilities:

Design and implement user interface components for JavaScript-based web applications

using React JS

 Work as a part of a small team that includes other react JS developers, designers, QA

experts, and managers

 Build app and UI components from prototypes and wireframes

 Built REST APIs for tight integrations with the Backend

 Write automated tests to ensure error-free code and performance

 Improve front-end performance by eliminating performance bottlenecks

 Create front-end modules with maximum code reusability and efficiency

 Work with third-party dependencies and APIs

 Work with Redux architecture to improve the performance of the websites/mobile apps

 Coordinate with the cross-functional teams to build apps in the stipulated time/budget

 Knowledge of TypeScript 

 Knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap

 React routing, React Hooks, Internationalization

• Job Title - Frontend Software Engineer - Data
• Reports Into - Senior Software Engineer - Data
• 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 a Frontend Software Engineer in the Data Science Team, you will build tools and develop technology that deliver data products to a team of strategists, marketing experts and game developers. You will design, build, test and deploy products which serve a company fuelled by data.

Your Team Mates

The Data Science team is central in developing the technology behind the growth and monetisation of our games. We are a cross functional team that consists of analysts, engineers and data scientists, and work closely with the larger engineering team to deliver products spanning our modern, cloud first, tech stack.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Develop and maintain user-friendly and visually appealing web applications using Vue.js
• Create interactive and informative data visualisations for general audiences as well as highly specialised teams
• Integrate with large, complex data sources and machine learning models via APIs
• Work within a data focused team to increase access to and the understanding of test and analysis results within game development, marketing and other aspects of 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 VueJS but could also be others e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, Svelte)
• Knowledge of data visualisation libraries and techniques
• Understanding of REST APIs, asynchronous programming, and data handling
• An excellent working knowledge of various database, scripting, and development tools, for example bash, Python, Postgres, MySQL, CouchBase, git, JIRA
• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best

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:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Company delivers, and how these link to Company’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Company processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or supporting them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Requirements:

• Acquired strong proven professional Front End Development experience.
• Proven track record and experience working on Javascript and front end frameworks like React (preferred) and Angular
• Knowledge and experience working with Node.js, Go or any other back end programming language is a plus .
• Experience of turning UI/UX designs to applications and keen interest in the UI/UX side of an application. 
• Able to build prototypes quickly and work with the product teams to test a concept. 
• Demonstrable experience in building front end or UI/UX development practices in previous jobs. 
• Building and implementing a product on cloud based infrastructure.
• Good understanding of Microservice Architecture, Cloud Technologies, CI/CD and Serverless.
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using Agile Methodologies such as Kanban or Scrum to build quality software.
• Good communication skills.

• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• 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
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native Issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.

• Ability to design the overall architecture of UI components of the web application.
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Maintain code integrity and organization.
• Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection.
• Good problem-solving skills and willingness to learn new technology

Qualifications:-

• 2+ year track record of relevant work experience and a Computer Science or a related technical discipline is required
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript
• Proficient experience in ReactJS.
• OOPS, Concept, and Data Structure like Queue, Stack, Tree, Linked List, etc.
• Good knowledge in working with REST APIs
• Knowledge of converting designs to working web pages using HTML and CSS.
• Experience in Architecture and delivery of web applications.
• Knowledge of code versioning tool – Git

Good to have:

• Experience in AngularJS
• Experience in server-side programming

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Who you are

• You have 2 - 7 years experience.
• You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast moving team.
• Strong product and design sensibilities and an obsessive attention to detail.
• You have a get-things-done attitude and deep empathy for users and fellow teammates.
• You can write testable, maintainable code that’s easy to understand.
• You love coding and look forward to taking on complex, abstract features.
• You don't care about front end, backend kinda titles. You like working anywhere in the "stack".
• You are looking to grow fast with a company that's on a rapid growth path.

What will excite us

• Previous startup experience or experience being part of early teams.
• Experience with the Django & Python universe.
• Experience with both Relational and NoSQL DBs.
• Competitive Programming experience.
• A keen desire to problem solve, brainstorm and debate during the interview.

What will excite you

• Complete ownership
• Experiment, fail and learn.
• High pedigree, high caliber team.
• Contribute to every area of our business. Have a real impact with your work.
• Top of the line compensation.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing modular front-end components using HTML, CSS, JavaScript/Jquery, JSON and micro formats.
• 2+ years of experience in React.
• Played with Webpack and Modular architecture.
• Solid understanding of user-centered design principles.
• Experience in cross-browser compatibility.

Our interview process is designed to help you show the best version of yourself. Once your candidature is finalized, we'll send you a short video explaining the interview process.

Look forward to speaking with you soon!