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Београд, Србија
Hybrid
We’re excited to invite you to join the World of Warships team at Wargaming, where we’re looking for a Senior Frontend Developer.
As a member of the World of Warships team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with a talented and passionate group of professionals, contribute to creating engaging and seamless experiences for our players, and make a meaningful impact on the direction and success of the game.
Own and develop frontend/UI systems within the product and web ecosystem, including reusable components, UI patterns, frameworks, tools, and shared frontend solutions.
Develop and maintain interactive web experiences, including event pages, web adventures, game mechanics, mini-games, widgets, portal modules, and other content-driven experiences.
Translate UI/UX designs and wireframes into robust, responsive implementations that accurately reflect the intended user experience.
Develop frontend solutions using React, TypeScript, Composition API, and related tooling, while maintaining and gradually improving existing vanilla JavaScript code.
Work with REST APIs, and data-driven interfaces, implementing asynchronous client-server interactions and dynamic content.
Implement complex animations and interactive mechanics, with a strong focus on UX, responsiveness, and frontend performance.
Optimize animation-heavy and mobile-heavy interfaces, including asset loading, lazy loading, rendering, browser behavior, and overall frontend performance.
Ensure reliable functionality across devices, browsers, platforms, regional versions, and language configurations.
Investigate and resolve complex frontend issues, including UI behavior, rendering, input handling, browser compatibility, integrations, performance, and production stability.
Refactor and improve existing and legacy codebases, maintaining high standards of production quality, maintainability, and scalability.
Collaborate with UX/UI designers using Figma to verify implementations, discuss technical feasibility, and prepare or export assets when required.
Participate in technical and design discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions, contributing to engineering standards and best practices.
Document frontend architectures, APIs, component behavior, integrations, and technical guidelines.
Mentor less experienced engineers on frontend development, UI systems, debugging, performance, and maintainability.
Collaborate with designers, game and engine engineers, QA, production, product, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality interactive experiences.
5+ years of commercial frontend development experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend technologies.
3+ years of practical experience with React.
Strong knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and SCSS.
Strong understanding of component-based UI architecture, responsive design, rendering behavior, and cross-browser compatibility.
Experience developing reusable UI systems, components, patterns, frameworks, or frontend tools.
Experience implementing complex animations and interactive interfaces, with a strong understanding of browser rendering and performance optimization.
Experience with mobile web development and responsive interfaces.
Experience working with REST APIs, asynchronous client-server interactions, and data-driven interfaces.
Experience working with existing or legacy codebases, including refactoring and maintaining production-quality code.
Ability to evaluate technical requirements and designs from the perspectives of usability, feasibility, performance, compatibility, integration, and maintainability.
Confident use of Figma and ability to collaborate effectively with designers.
Ability to work independently, investigate technical problems, and find practical solutions.
Strong attention to implementation quality, interface details, consistency, and user experience.
Experience participating in code reviews and technical discussions.
Strong communication and collaboration skills in multidisciplinary teams.
Strong spoken and written English for technical communication and documentation.
Russian language skills would be an advantage.
Good sense of visual design, composition, and understanding of UI/UX principles for interactive web interfaces.
Experience with Three.js, WebGL, or other 3D/web graphics technologies.
Experience with GSAP, Motion, or similar animation libraries.
Experience with Node.js for frontend tooling, scripts, and build systems.
Experience working on multilingual and multi-regional projects.
Experience developing mini-games
Experience in the game industry or with game-related web products.
Links to relevant projects demonstrating interactive, animation-heavy, or technically complex frontend work.
Benefits and perks are tailored to the local market and culture. Our benefits in Belgrade include:
Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. Operating since 1998, Wargaming has become one of the leaders in the gaming industry with 15 offices worldwide, including studios in Chicago, Prague, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Vilnius. Our diverse and multicultural team works together to deliver a top-class experience to millions of players who enjoy Wargaming's titles across all major gaming platforms. Our flagship products include free-to-play hits World of Tanks, World of Warships and World of Tanks Blitz.
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