Front-End Developer

Front end developer role

Contract – Multi-year

Location: Downtown Toronto

Responsibilities and Duties

• Own the design and delivery of high quality features and enhancements.

• Provide estimates and actively participate in the spring planning process.

• Produce highly secure solutions.

• Tune the performance of the existing codebase and peer review code.

• Work closely with the technical lead and team members to design and plan components and interaction patterns, actively participating in design discussions and decision-making processes.

• Participate in technical and architecture discussions about our front-end applications

Qualifications and Skills

• Front-end development experience and knowledge of Javascript modern frameworks like React or Vue.js.

• Experience writing and working with REST APIs.

• Collaborate with other cross-functional teams working on features for our customers

• Familiarity with automated build pipelines; continuous integration or continuous delivery

• Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.

• Demonstrated ability to work closely with UX designers and Product owners to deliver the best UX for our customers

• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality code using automated tests for unit tests and end-to-end tests (using Jest, Cypress, Playwright)

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast pace customer centric environment.

• 5+ years of experience in web application development using Agile methodologies.

• Excellent communication and organization skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.

Nice to have

• Experience with A/B testing

• Familiarity with deploying to cloud providers in and container-based distributed systems (Docker).

• Familiarity with *nix like environments

Note: For both the above role, the employer is Apexon & client is Fiserv.