Front-End Developer

We are looking for a Front-End Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Front-End Developer
Term: 6-month with a chance of extension – 40 hours
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 1-2 days a week
Job ID number: C1074

Brief description of duties:

Front-End Developers play a significant role on our engineering team, developing the user facing applications for our company’s websites, functional and mobile web applications. Front-End Developers collaborate openly in an Agile development environment with other members of engineering and user experience teams, including Architects, QA, User interaction & User interface designers, as well as Project Managers. They participate in our UI development processes by establishing and documenting development standards and common components for common usage across all of our web applications.

Our Front-End developers are responsible for building semantic, WCAG compliant, responsive, maintainable and performant solutions that meet business requirements and project goals while lining up with future strategic visions.

MUST haves:

• University or College education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent combination of education experience.
• 2 – 5 years of industry experience.
• Expert proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Expert proficiency with the JavaScript framework React
• A high level of experience building UI layouts using SASS, LESS, and the CSS GRID system
• Comprehensive understanding of MongoDB and good working knowledge of other NoSQL and SQL databases
• Comprehensive knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and related techniques for building compliant web applications.
• A solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues, and ways to work around them
• Demonstrated experience in incorporating reliable unit and end-to-end testing
• Good knowledge and practical experience of build tools like Webpack, Rollup etc.
• Good working knowledge of Java & Spring
• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Significant experience debugging using browser-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
• Some exposure to Continuous Integration/Delivery pipeline for cloud, including Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, etc.
• Some experience working in an agile environment using tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work well in a fast paced team oriented environment.