Ui Developer (Gaming)

Apex Systems US; Hinckley and Bosworth; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is looking for a UI Developer (Gaming) to join their team in Twycross, Leicestershire. The role focuses on building core features and components for games, ensuring high-quality engineering through modern development practices such as automated testing and agile methods. Candidates should have experience in modern JavaScript, UI frameworks, and design patterns. The position is hybrid, requiring 2 to 3 days onsite per week.

Qualifications

• Experience in modern JavaScript web development.
• Solid understanding of design patterns and object-oriented design.
• Understanding of rendering performance and profiling.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-fidelity web-based solutions to support Sea of Thieves and Rare's next games.
• Build creative solutions to technical problems encountered.
• Minimize technical debt and maintenance hazards.

Skills

Modern JavaScript development

Design patterns

CSS and preprocessors knowledge

Typescript

Unit testing with Jasmine

MVC/MVVM patterns

JavaScript frameworks (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

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.