KingsIsle Entertainment, established in 2005, is a proven MMO hit-maker with 50+ million registered users across both of our MMO games with vibrant and strong communities. Our award-winning game Wizard101 is currently in its 16th year and Pirate101 is in its 12th. We attribute our success to great people, and we recognize the value of every team member.
The KingsIsle Web Team is a friendly and motivated group of builders, testers, and managers who put the quality of what we produce above all else. Experience taught us that high standards are better achieved through effective collaboration, knowledge duplication, and personal development. We make time for each team member to take courses and work on interest projects. The team reserves regular time slots to discuss successes and failures after each Sprint. The senior members are encouraged and empowered to mentor so our junior members often experience tremendous growth. We build enterprise web applications with proven success serving millions, and our continued quest for improvement drives increasing sophistication in test automation, performance/security monitoring, and agile product delivery.
About the role
You will work with a team of front/back-end developers and QA engineers on our application tech stack consisting of MySQL, Java, Hibernate, and JavaScript, and help to create a new, modern front-end stack. Understanding existing business requirements and maintaining the codebase is a major part of the job, and your role in our effort to innovate better solutions and architecture will no doubt be both challenging and rewarding. Modernizing the web front-end experience and technology is vital to the company's strategic goal for the foreseeable future. You will partner with your team and business stakeholders to write, refine, plan, and implement stories and deliver production-ready features. You'll provide expert opinions, perform code reviews, and help foster collaboration, growth, and creativity.
You Will
- Master and maintain the existing codebase
- Deliver quality solutions on point and on time
- Collaborate with back-end developers and UI/UX designers to improve usability
- Optimize the applications and art assets for maximum speed
- Sustain a high degree of unit test coverage
- Design features that work well with all screen sizes
- Partner with QA to clarify testing criteria and fix bugs
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
- Be part of our "always learning, always respectful" team culture, and make it better!
- Have an important voice in solving real-world business and/or development problems.
- Work closely with game designers, marketing strategists, data analysts, and operations professionals.
- Be a key part of our web/platform team that serves millions of users in critical business and social capacities.
- Have access to tremendous experience and domain knowledge from the leadership team. They are great mentors.
- Be exposed to all aspects of development life, including design, implementation, project-leading, DevOps, QA, and automation.
- Experience developing with plain JavaScript
- Experience and good understanding of Angular and Strapi
- Experience with unit testing frameworks such as Jest, Jasmine, or similar
- Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
- Ability to create CSS, either handwritten or with preprocessors
- Ability to create, edit, and optimize raster and vector-based art
- Understanding of layout aesthetics
- An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of the entire web development life cycle
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Bonus Skills & Experiences
- Developing high-traffic server products
- Ability to create wireframes in Figma
- Familiarity with any of these: Eclipse, JIRA, Confluence, Crucible, SVN, JMeter, web components, Typescript, Express
- Experience with other modern frameworks such as Vue or React
- Experience with the Agile development process
- Familiar with legacy front-end web techniques
