Kaizen Gaming is one of the biggest GameTech companies in the world, operating in 20 markets. The Principal Frontend Engineer will develop modern applications, provide technical guidance to development teams, and ensure best practices in software delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Write code as we expect our technical leadership to be in the trenches alongside engineers, understand root causes, and lead by example
- You understand key frontend performance metrics and have some experience in debugging frameworks such as Lighthouse and ChromeUX
- Exert technical influence over multiple teams, actively mentor individuals on advanced technical issues, and help technology managers guide the technical growth of their team members
- Support Product and Delivery in building highly scalable solutions aligned with non-functional requirements in terms of performance, security & regulatory
- Provide clear hands-on solutions with POCs or actual implementations depending on the particular case and scenario
- Participate in technical discussions as part of the team. You should be ready to challenge our architecture, propose changes, and ultimately implement them
- Become the first point of contact between the Architecture Engineering Team and Development Teams. Safeguard our engineering processes and the way we deliver software to browsers and mobile devices
Requirements:
- Write code as we expect our technical leadership to be in the trenches alongside engineers, understand root causes, and lead by example
- You understand key frontend performance metrics and have some experience in debugging frameworks such as Lighthouse and ChromeUX
- Exert technical influence over multiple teams, actively mentor individuals on advanced technical issues, and help technology managers guide the technical growth of their team members
- Support Product and Delivery in building highly scalable solutions aligned with non-functional requirements in terms of performance, security & regulatory
- Provide clear hands-on solutions with POCs or actual implementations depending on the particular case and scenario
- Participate in technical discussions as part of the team. You should be ready to challenge our architecture, propose changes, and ultimately implement them
- Become the first point of contact between the Architecture Engineering Team and Development Teams. Safeguard our engineering processes and the way we deliver software to browsers and mobile devices
- Knowledge of how modern frontend libraries connect data and state to the underlying rendering engine be it a browser DOM or a native mobile API
- Good knowledge of frontend integration schemes either on the client side or server side (iframes, micro-frontends, edge includes)
- Solid experience with bundling tools such as Webpack and Vite. You understand how these tools work and can optimize build processes for performance and scalability
- Solid experience with a global store / action-based state management pattern (Redux, VueX, Pinia, NgRx). You have solid experience with global store / action-based state management patterns. You can design and implement robust state management solutions for complex applications
- Excellent understanding of how SPA frontends can communicate with a BFF and best practices in terms of API design
- Excellent knowledge of all newest browser APIs such as service-workers, MutationObserver, ResizeObserver
- Experience with server-side rendering in any of the major front-end frameworks is nice to have
- Experience with mobile development either native or through a hybrid model (react-native, ionic, etc) will be considered a plus