Frontend Software Engineer

Shop Titans; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company is seeking a Frontend Software Engineer to join their prototyping team. This full-time role involves designing and maintaining UI components while collaborating in an agile environment. The position offers a competitive salary and a variety of employee benefits, including health coverage and flexible spending accounts.

Benefits

Extended Health Coverage

Flexible Spending Accounts

RRSP Matching

PTO and Parental Leave

Employee and Family Assistance Program

Learning and growth

Pay transparency

Hybrid Work

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software development, preferably in game development.
• Experience in Android / iOS Mobile application development.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain dynamic screens, widgets, and UI components.
• Collaborate closely with producers, artists, designers, and engineers.

Skills

C#

Node.js

C++

Unity3D

Agile

Tools

Unity GUI

NGUI

Job description

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…

We’re looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to join ourprototyping team on an exciting, unannounced project. In this role, you will design and maintain dynamic screens, widgets, and UI components in a scalable, extensible way — helping to optimize workflows and boost team efficiency. You’ll collaborate closely with producers, artists, designers, and engineers in a fast-paced, agile environment, offering technical insight during feature planning and contributing to the tools that bring our games to life. If you're excited about making a meaningful impact behind the scenes, we want to hear from you!

This is a full-time onsite position, based five days a week in our downtown Vancouver studio.

In this role, you can expect to be involved in:

• Writing, testing, and maintaining code following coding standards and best practices.
• Collaborating effectively with team members, participating in code reviews, and adhering to established development processes.
• Debugging and solving software issues, providing effective solutions.
• Maintaining clear and concise documentation for code and project-related materials.
• Continuously learning and improving technical skills and knowledge.
• Communicating progress, challenges, and updates to team members and stakeholders.
• Adhering to project deadlines and milestones, and managing tasks efficiently.
• Seeking mentorship and sharing knowledge to contribute to team growth.

• Frontend:
• Building screens, widgets, and other UI elements in an extensible way.
• Reviewing feature designs and providing input on costs and possible alternatives.
• Working closely with producers, artists, designers, and other programmers in a highly collaborative and agile environment.
• Building and supporting tools that improve the workflows of artists, designers, and other programmers.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• 3+ years of experience in software development, preferably in game development.
• Solid understanding of C#, Node.js or C++.
• Knowledge of UI technical best practices (on Console, PC, or Mobile).
• Strong proficiency in Unity3D Game Engine.
• Shipped multiple titles releases on Console, PC, or Mobile.
• Professional proficiency with multiple game engines, or proven ability to pick-up new ones.
• Ability to write clean, simple, well-documented code from design requirements.
• Able to effectively communicate and translate between general ideas and technical practices.
• Proven track record of working independently and collaboratively in a dynamic team setting.
• Experience in Android / iOS Mobile application development.
• Up-to-date knowledge on the latest mobile gaming trends.
• Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical team members.
• Experience working in Agile, Kanban, or similar project management methodologies.
• Experience with Unity GUI or NGUI frameworks.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family AssistanceProgram: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
• Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam.

$95,360 - $119,200 a year

The typical hiring range listed above is specific to candidates located in Vancouver. The salary will be determined based on your knowledge, skills and competencies, and you’ll have room to grow after you join!

If you’re interested in the position but your expectations don’t fully align with the provided range, we still encourage you to apply! Considerations may be made based on your experience level.

Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!

About Kabam

Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.

Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.

Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.