Frontend Developer

£13k - £18k (with the possibility of bonuses + equity options)

About the role: Are you a recent graduate/experienced frontend developer with a passion for gaming?

We’re looking for a skilled frontend developer to help shape and build our mobile gaming platform. Due to the fast-paced nature of this role, it is important that you are highly skilled and confident in your code.

As we are a small team, the code you produce will have a very high impact on the company, due to this it is very important you are confident in your code and comfortable working to tight deadlines. The role will consist of working closely with the rest of the engineering team to successfully reach targets/deadlines.

We run Scrum for project management so some knowledge/experience working with ScruUpgrade to see actual infothodologies would be preferred.

The technologies we use are: HTML5, CSS/Sass, Typescript, ES6, NextJS, React, Docker, Git, Postman.

Whilst your role may vary slightly depending on the needs of the business, your day to day responsibilities will consist of:

-You MUST be able to write high quality, simple and maintainable code.
-Designing, writing and debugging software.
-Implementing high performance frontend components.
-Being a highly communicative developer who can be proactive in approaching other teams within the business (eg. UI/UX team, QA team and work closely with our CTO and dev team.
-Conducting your own research and finding solutions to the problems we face.


About you: You’re a self-starter who enjoys working individually and as part of a team, you are passionate, driven, proficient in English, and have a good knowledge of coding and you should be comfortable questioning and challenging opinions.

We are looking for people who have a strong interest in technology and startups. Evidence of this will be personal projects/university projects and activities. You should have great communication skills, be self-motivated and be willing to learn. Our ideal candidate will be pursuing or recently graduated with a Computer Science or any other technical degree and/or between 6-12 months experience minimum in a similar role.

The key attributes we’re looking for in a candidate are:

-You should be able to code high quality react components.
-Proficiency in state management methodologies.
-Great understanding of asynchronous request handling.
-Excellent understanding of SEO principles.
-Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues.
-Experience in react-native and swiftUI is a bonus!

You MUST have a strong internet connection, webcam and accessibility to a generator/alternative way to get online in case of power outages.

About us: We are a fast growing start up looking to make waves in mobile eSports.
GameStake is the UK’s first gaming company that provides a platform for people to play games competitively for real prizes, all in one place (and isn’t gambling). No downloads, no constant updates, no storage issues.
Due to the fact that all of our games are skill-based, and all tournaments are human to human (we don’t participate), the GameStake platform is 100% legal and also 100% not considered gambling in the territories we operate tournaments in.
We are fresh, we are young, and we have already surpassed 11,000 sign-ups. We have lots of new features constantly being released, as well as new games on the way.

We are headquartered in London but have staff around the globe.

If you are successful you will be invited to chat with members of our team; this interview will consist of 2 parts, the first being a one hour technical task (pairs programming) + experience discussion) and a more general conversation with our CTO covering all things from the company cultural fit.

If you think you would be a good fit for the role, please send us a copy of your CV and portfolio.

Many thanks and best of luck!