Senior Front End Engineer
A senior front-end engineer role in Kitchener, Canada, building cloud-native applications for the auto industry in a cross-functional agile team. Day-to-day work involves developing user-facing features and reusable components with React/Vue and TypeScript, plus some full-stack work with Next.js or Nest.js.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Kitchener, Canada
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Frontend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Multiple years of experience delivering full-stack solutions (portfolio/code snippets ideal)
- Able to work autonomously
- Able to see the big picture to make sound architectural decisions
- Able to hop in and out of projects and meet delivery dates
- Fluent in React.js and Vue.js
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and the JavaScript object model
- Experience with HTML5, CSS3, and DOM manipulation
- Understanding of W3C guidelines including ARIA and accessibility
- Thorough understanding of Next.js or Nest.js
- Experience with JavaScript workflows such as Flux or Redux
- Familiarity with newer ECMAScript specifications (ES6+)
- Expert understanding of RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools (CI/CD)
- Experience with common development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, yarn
- Experience with testing frameworks (Mocha/Chai/Sinon or Jasmine/Jest/Enzyme)
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements
- Ability to perform benchmarking and optimization
Full description
Role Overview
You will be working in a cross-functional team, using agile methodologies to build cloud-native applications for the Auto industry. We are looking for true team-players who can work beyond their specialty to help the team deliver. Every team member is responsible for the quality of the product and should be willing to work on any tasks needed, be it front-end, back end, test automation,
deployment automation, etc.
Requirements
- You have multiple years of experience in delivering full-stack solutions. Ideally, you have a portfolio to share or code snippets that can highlight some of your expertise.
- You are able to work autonomously.
- You are able to see the big picture to make sound architectural decisions.
- You are able to hop in and out of projects and make sure delivery dates are met.
Responsibilities
You will take leadership in driving projects from a blank slate to completion. You’ll be in the weeds independently as a developer, and also need to provide guidance to more junior developers if they are assisting on the project.
- Developing new user-facing features using various front-end frameworks
- Building reusable cross-platform components and front-end libraries for future use
- Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
- Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
Skills
- Fluent in React.js, and Vue.js
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and the JavaScript object model
- Experience with HTML5, CSS3, and DOM manipulation
- Understanding of the W3C guidelines including ARIA and accessibility
- Thorough understanding of one or more of the following back-end frameworks (Next.js or Nest.js)
- Experience with popular JavaScript workflows such as Flux or Redux
- Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript (ES6+)
- Expert understanding of RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools (CI/CD)
- Experience with common development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, yarn, etc.
- Experience with testing frameworks (Mocha/Chai/Sinon or Jasmine/Jest/Enzyme)
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- Ability to perform benchmarking and optimization