JOB DESCRIPTION

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 Frontend Developer 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.