Frontend Developer

eLocal, part of Brookfield Asset Management, is a fast-growing and profitable national leader in pay-for-performance digital advertising. eLocal connects millions of local consumers each year to the businesses they need, when they need them. We are currently looking for a talented Frontend Developer to join our team remotely from anywhere in Canada.

You will work as part of a talented team of engineers to develop high-quality software solutions for our next-gen global project. In this role, you will implement new features and maintain existing code using React and other standard tools in the React ecosystem, such as Node.js and Yarn. Your duties will include developing software solutions to meet project requirements, maintaining and refactoring existing code, and fixing bugs. We are agile, our engineering team collaborates with product owners and business stakeholders to come up with innovative solutions to challenging business problems.

This is an opportunity for any engineer who is passionate about collaborating with other like-minded engineers to deliver high-quality, high-performing, reliable software products. Your efforts and contribution will have a direct impact on shaping the future of our e-commerce business.

Day to Day:

• Work with the front-end team to develop our next-gen pay-for-performance transactional platform.
• Engage with business leaders, product owners, and other stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into pragmatic solutions.
• Take full ownership of the end-to-end quality of the front-end code deployed to production.
• Work with peers to write, review, and provide feedback on code.
• Provide on-call support, critical issue remediation, and incident response for services.
• Ensure our applications and processes are adapting to business changes or changes to technology.
• Stay abreast of the latest/emerging technologies.

Who you are:

• Relentlessly High Standards. You believe in writing high-quality code that is robust, scalable, and performant. All while keeping it simple and maintainable.
• You are driven by a strong customer focus.
• Self-motivated. You take initiative and drive your projects to success.
• Thrive in ambiguity. You can define and drive solutions despite ambiguity. And you help your team navigate through this ambiguity.
• A True Team Player. You enjoy collaborating, learning from, and teaching others so we can all better our skills.

Qualifications:

• 5+ year work experience including strong CS fundamentals, great debugging, troubleshooting, and coding skills.
• An understanding of common programming paradigms and fundamental React principles, such as React components, hooks, and the React lifecycle.
• Full understanding of Next.js
• Familiarity with common programming tools such as IDEs, RESTful APIs, Git repositories, version control software, and remote deployment tools
• Experienced with semantic HTML.
• Experience developing mobile-friendly CSS using LESS/SASS.
• Ability to work in an agile team with an understanding of software development lifecycle (design, development, testing, CI/CD, etc.).
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of a server-side language, Node.js, PHP, Python.