React JS Lead/Senior Developer

Position: Senior/Lead Front End Reactjs DeveloperExperience: 6 – 8 + yrsLocation: Canada EST Zone – 100% RemoteContract role

Job Description: As a Frontend Engineer, you’ll focus on building web components for our new design system and metadata driven UI objects that power our next generation UI console. In this role, you’ll report to one of our engineering managers and you’ll work closely with other front end engineers, and product designers to ensure accuracy, consistency, and portability. If you are passionate about building complex data driven user interfaces, this role is perfect for you.What You'll Do:Scale our design system by building web components based on Figma specificationEnsure proper test coverage, accessibility (a11y), theming and localization/internationalization (i18n) are baked into the components.Maintain and extend design tokens (css variables) to ensure coded components are in sync with Figma design specificationsCollaborate with UX architects, product designers, QA testing engineers to ensure components meet our design and engineering standards.Participate in scrum ceremonies, team planning session, short demos and roadmap reviews to ensure team is aligned on short and long term goals What you’ll need:Experience in building user centric and scalable UI frameworks and design systemsExpert knowledge of the latest web standards and front-end engineering tools (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Web Components, REST API, GraphQL, Typescript, Node/NPM, Responsive UI)A good understanding of Cloud Technologies and end to end delivery of data intensive SaaS productsExperience with Accessibility (a11y) best practices, tools and techniques such as compatibility with keyboard navigation, screen readers and WCAG AA guidelinesExperience with localization and internationalization (i18n)Experience with front end frameworks such as React/Next.js, Vue, Ember (a huge plus)Knowledge of CI/CD best practices and tools for improving and maintaining performance and code qualityStrong communication skills in both verbal and written formatsComfortable providing short demos for your workBe an advocate UX consistency, accessibility and empathy for the end user

Key Skills

• CSS
• React