We're looking for a Frontend Engineer to join our high-impact Engineering team at VNGGames. As an engineer in the PLAY team, you'll design and build the frontend experiences that connect players to our ecosystem. You'll collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver features that are reliable, scalable, and exciting for players. Your frontend expertise will help shape how we design, build high-performance desktop and web experiences for players at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build high-quality user interface that enables player experiences, such as authentication, authorization, game launcher, game submission pipelines, player profiles and more.
- Deliver high-quality user interfaces for our desktop game launcher and web-based player experiences using React, TypeScript, and ElectronJS.
- Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate APIs and deliver end-to-end product features.
- Write maintainable, testable, and performant code that adheres to modern engineering best practices.
- Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and improvement of engineering best practices.
- Participate in live service operations and monitoring to ensure system reliability and quickly mitigate player-impacting issues.
- Learn and grow in both technical skills and domain knowledge, with mentorship and support from more experienced teammates.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- From 4+ years of professional experience as a frontend engineer, familiarity with React (or strong interest in learning).
- Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals, data structures and algorithms.
- Familiar with HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals and modern web development principles.
- Experience with React or similar frameworks, familiar with at least one MV* framework.
- Knowledge of web browser mechanisms and rendering processes.
- Experience with writing unit tests to ensure the reliability, and maintainability of frontend applications.
- Solid understanding of frontend security best practices (e.g., XSS prevention, cookies, authentication).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with an eagerness to work closely with both engineers and non-engineers
- Comfortable taking ownership of service reliability and operational health.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with frontend observability tools such as Sentry, or similar.
- Experience with building desktop apps using ElectronJS, or strong interest in learning.
- Experience working on high traffic and large-scale applications is a strong plus.
