Full-Time Senior Frontend Developer
Ignition is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Frontend Developer. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Toronto, Canada based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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The purpose of this role is to contribute to the ongoing improvement and development of our software and processes using modern engineering practices with continuous deployment of high quality software code.
What your day to day will look like:
- Building new, improving and maintaining existing frontend components
- Conversion of wireframes and mock-ups into fully functioning app features
- Implementing the structure and design of web app sections
- Developing features to enhance the user experience
- Automating tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
- Supporting validation and verification testing
- Delivery of cross-browser compatibility for the platform
- Creation and maintenance of software documentation
- Optimising web pages for maximum speed and scalability
- Committing to support a safe, mindful, and productive team environment, maintaining open, honest, and respectful communication
- Learn from others and mentor those around you to help them grow
- Play an important role in shaping the technical direction of frontend development
How we do it:
- Building high quality, clean, efficient, and reusable code for future use
- Collaborating with internal teams including other developers, designers, product managers and client-facing employees
- Communicating design ideas and approaches to enhancing the platform
- Ensuring user experience determines design choices.
- Collaborating with vendors to fix and improve products
Our stack:
Single page app: TypeScript, React, Chakra, React-hook-form. Ruby/Rails, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis
Testing is done with Jest and Cypress (frontend); Rspec (backend)
CI/CD using CircleCI and GitHub
How we work:
- Distributed team
- Continuous Delivery
- Code Reviews
- Sprints
- Spark Projects
- Retrospectives
Who you are:
- Curiosity to develop knowledge of a variety of programming languages and frameworks.
- Someone who can engage in robust and articulate dialogue while maintaining an open mind.
- There’s an unshakeable desire to write testable and well tested code.
- A skilful and dependable person who recognizes that there is always more to learn.
- A sense of humour, and the ability to focus yet still have a laugh in high pressure situations.
- A pragmatic, objective thinker who can weigh up options based on requirements, best fit and maturity of technology
What you need to succeed:
- 6+ years frontend development experience
- Proficiency with TypeScript, React.js, HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript tooling
- Experience with responsive and adaptive design
- Good problem solving skills
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills