Front-end Developer

Intergalactic Gaming Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fun and fast-paced work environment

Social breaks with gaming

Weekly team socials

Travel opportunities to gaming conferences

Job summary

Intergalactic Gaming Ltd, based in Manchester, is looking for a full-time Front-end Developer to enhance their online gaming platform. You will be responsible for the front-end implementation, ensuring a responsive and optimised design for users across devices.

The ideal candidate should have a degree in Computer Science and experience in OOP, agile practices, and front-end frameworks like Bootstrap. Join a fast-paced, innovative team committed to creating an engaging platform for gamers!

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science and relevant commercial experience is essential.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Understanding of agile development practices and ability to work in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Implement responsive web design and modular CSS.
• Ensure cross-platform optimisation for mobile phones.
• Collaborate with graphic designers on web features.

Skills

Object-oriented Programming (OOP)

Project management

Familiarity with blockchain technology

Experience with front-end frameworks (e.g., bootstrap)

NodeJS

Typescript

GraphQL

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

GIT repositories

Job description

Intergalactic Gaming is a central Manchester based, social and competitive esports gaming organisation that officially launched back in 2018. Within a space of six months, we launched our Alpha platform, our minimum viable product, that enables gamers to participate in online tournaments. We’re now underway in the development of our Beta platform where we look to implement and test further features into our platform, before its final release to the public at the latter end of this year.

We are currently seeking a full time front-end web developer to develop our online web platform. At present, we host FIFA tournaments; as we progress, we will expand, hosting tournaments across numerous top esports titles. Intergalactic Gaming is an exciting, unique organisation. Our ideal candidate will share the values of IG; of innovation, community, reward and complete transparency.

Front-end Developer Job Responsibilities

• Front-end Implementation (responsive web design, modular/scalable CSS, UI frameworks, style guides, progressive enhancement & accessibility, animation and front-end performance).
• Front-end Operations (build tools, deployment, speed: (app, tests, builds, deploys), monitoring errors/logs, and stability).
• Ensuring cross-platform optimisation for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

Front-end Developer Job Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science and relevant commercial experience is essential.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Experience with Object-oriented Programming (OPP) and software design patterns.
• Not essential but desirable to have Xojo experience.
• Experience doing test-driven and behaviour-driven development.
• Experience with blockchain technology not essential, but basic knowledge would be useful.
• Understanding of agile development practices and an ability to work in an agile development environment.
• Experience with front-end frameworks i.e. bootstrap.
• Experience with GIT repositories.
• Proficiency with NodeJS, Typescript and GraphQL.
• Enjoys working with a tight, well motivated and dedicated team.

Benefits for a Front-end Developer

• Work in a fun and fast-paced space.
• Social breaks with the team on either the Gaming PC, Xbox, PS4 or Orculus rift.
• Weekly socials with the team.
• Possibilities of travelling to gaming conferences across the world.

If you are excited about being part of a growing platform created by gamers, for gamers, as a Front-end Developer press Apply below!

Good luck!

Intergalactic Gaming