Lead R&D Frontend Engineer

As the Lead R&D Engineer for the Virtuos R&D team, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing applications that push the boundaries of production tools used for video game assets and production resources.

- Lead the Frontend Development: Oversee the entire UI development, from conceptualization to implementation, ensuring that web applications are not only functional but also smooth and stable.

- Mentor and Lead Development Teams: Act as a mentor and leader for the UI development team, providing guidance and support in technical challenges, promoting professional growth, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.

- Establish and Enforce UI/UX Best Practices: Develop and maintain UI/UX best practices and standards across projects.

- Design and develop responsive web applications using web technologies of HTML and JavaScript, CSS frameworks (e.g. VueJS, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS).

- Work with architect to design cloud-based frontend architecture.

- Ensure the quality of frontend source code, design, guide and develop test cases.

- Collaborate with backend engineers, and production teams to deliver high-quality, user-centric solutions, while staying updated with the latest trends and technologies in web application development to continuously improve project outcomes.

- Technical Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of HTML, CSS, and VueJS is essential.

- Knowledge of websocket and canvas is a plus.

- Experienced on Cloud, understanding Public Cloud concept(AWS/GCP/Azure) and must be with hands-on experience on services like AWS CloudFront, API Gateway, Route53, load balancer etc. or similar services in GCP/Azure.

- Understanding of Frontend CI/CD, eg. AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, Gitlab runner etc.

- Understanding of RESTful APIs and Web Services: Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, and a comprehensive understanding of web protocols and architecture.

- Knowledge in modern browsers image rendering, downloading queue, sync/async and performance optimization is a plus.

- Strong Analytical and Problem-solving Skills: Excellent at troubleshooting, debugging, and optimizing code for performance and scalability. Attention to detail and a methodical approach to software development.

- Team Leadership and Collaboration: Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to mentor and guide team members.

- Experience working in agile development teams and effective at cross-functional collaboration.

- Communication Skills: Good verbal and written communication skills are essential. An IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent is required to ensure proficiency in English, facilitating clear and effective communication in a global team environment.

- Experience in team management, preferably with a focus on cross-border teams.