Ui Developer (Gaming)

Apex Systems US; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology firm is looking for a talented UI Developer to join their gaming team in Twycross, Leicestershire. The role involves delivering high-fidelity web-based solutions and building creative solutions for technical challenges. Candidates should have a solid understanding of modern JavaScript, design patterns, and experience in working with JavaScript frameworks like React or Angular. This hybrid position allows for flexible onsite presence.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-fidelity web-based solutions for games.
• Build creative solutions to technical problems.
• Minimise technical debt and maintenance hazards.
• Champion quality in development processes.
• Liaise and identify technical challenges.

Skills

Modern JavaScript web development

Design patterns understanding

CSS and preprocessors knowledge

Multilingual product complexities

Rendering performance profiling

Typescript experience

Unit tests in Jasmine

MVC and/or MVVM design patterns

Accessibility awareness

JavaScript framework (React, Angular, etc.)

Job description

Overview

Role Name : UI Developer (Gaming)

Location : Twycross, Leicestershire

Type : Hybrid - Preferred 2 to 3 days onsite per week.

Contract Duration : 18 months

Job Description

As a Game UI Developer, you'll be part of a team of friendly, highly talented developers who like nothing better than sharing their own challenges and expertise with you. Sitting alongside fellow engineers, designers and artists, you will be responsible for helping to build the core features and components used to implement various UI designs, along with extending and developing our UI toolchain to support the current and future needs of our projects.

We're big believers in high-quality engineering, and since we're developing our products as services, we aim for fast iteration but with a focus on robust methods. This means that we embrace modern development practices such as continuous delivery, automated testing, code reviews, pair programming and agile methods.

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver high-fidelity web-based solutions to support Sea of Thieves and Rare's next games.
• Build creative solutions to technical problems encountered.
• Continuously work to minimise technical debt and maintenance hazards.
• Champion quality in our development process, demonstrating our values and taking an active role in improvement of engineering at Rare.
• Be part of Rare's culture; be inquisitive, try things out, break stuff, help people be even better, think like you own the place.
• Liaise with other teams, help identify technical challenges and identify core player value.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience in modern JavaScript web development.
• Solid understanding of design patterns and object-oriented design.
• Knowledge of CSS and preprocessors such as PostCSS.
• Understanding of the complexities of working on multilingual products.
• A keen eye on rendering performance, and knowledge of how to profile.
• Experience in working with Typescript.
• Experience in writing unit tests in Jasmine or similar.
• Experience in MVC and/or MVVM design patterns.
• Experience and awareness of accessibility requirements.
• Experience in working with a JavaScript framework such as React, Angular, Vue, SolidJS.