Front End Developer - React (12 month Contract)

Team: Shared Services

Location: Oakville, Canada

Commitment: Contract - Full-Time

Workplace Type: hybrid

WHATS THE DAY TO DAY LIKE?

Technical Solution Architecture & Prototyping: Partner with Product Managers and your Tech Lead to turn functional requirements into smart technical solutions. Evaluate whether to leverage third-party libraries, integrate SaaS solutions, or build custom features depending on project needs.

Experimentation & Production Building: Work comfortably across the entire development spectrum — rapidly prototyping and testing experimental technologies/UX approaches in some scenarios, while building clean, maintainable, production-ready code for high-traffic environments in others.

Tech Lead & Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with a Tech Lead to master our technical architecture and infrastructure guidelines. 

React Development: Conceptualize, design, develop, and implement high-quality, scalable features for web platforms using React and React.

Community Building: Build and integrate real-time social functionalities across mobile and web platforms, including comment threads, like/share actions, user stories, and live chat modules.

User Journeys: Develop and optimize logged-in and premium user experiences across mobile app and digital touchpoints, ensuring seamless state management and personalized interfaces.

Performance & Mobile Optimization: Maintain UI/UX quality, ensuring top-tier responsiveness, accessibility, battery efficiency, and performance across mobile devices and web platforms. Continually optimize code for smooth animations and low latency.

Testing & Continuous Delivery: Build solutions with a Test-Driven Development (TDD) mindset. Write unit tests, manage app release pipelines (CI/CD), and support QA testing when required.

WE ARE HOPING YOU HAVE:

Core Stack Focus (React): Proficiency and hands-on experience building, launching, and maintaining web platforms using React and React.

Pragmatic Problem-Solving & Technical Range: Proven ability to translate product requirements into sound technical solutions. Comfortable working in both experimental settings (rapid prototyping, evaluating third-party SDKs, trying new UX patterns) and structured production releases.

Proactive Self-Starter Mindset: Highly motivated and resourceful. Demonstrated ability to take initiative, ask the right questions, partner effectively with technical leaders, and own feature delivery end-to-end.

Experience: Minimum 3 to 4 years of related job experience specializing in front-end and mobile app development for high-traffic environments

Education: University degree in Computer Science, College diploma in Computer Programming, Information Technologies, or a related discipline.

Web & Mobile Technologies: Expert-level understanding of modern JavaScript / TypeScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3/SASS.

Interactive & Real-Time Features: Experience building real-time interactive mobile and web features (e.g., utilizing WebSockets or SaaS tools for live chat) and social engagement modules.

API & Third-Party Integration: Experience designing UI/mobile interactions that consume RESTful APIs, GraphQL, third-party SDKs, and SaaS services.

State Management: Solid experience with state management libraries in the React ecosystem (e.g., Redux, Context API, Zustand).

Responsive Design: Deep understanding of mobile-first design principles, and cross-device compatibility.

YOU ARE MADE FOR THIS IF YOU...

Balance Experimentation with Engineering Rigor: You enjoy testing new tech and UX concepts just as much as writing clean, battle-tested code for production environments.

Are a Collaborative Self-Starter: You take initiative and bring ideas to the table, but you also value learning from a Tech Lead and aligning with cross-functional partners.

Are a Pragmatic Solution Finder: You know when to leverage existing SaaS tools and open-source libraries versus when to build custom solutions from scratch.

Are Passionate About Mobile & Community Tech: You love mobile app ecosystems and have an intrinsic understanding of what drives digital community engagement and user retention.

Have an Eye for UI/UX: You possess a strong eye for design, basic knowledge of UI/UX principles, and familiarity with tools like Figma, Adobe Illustrator, or Photoshop.

Love Animation & Micro-interactions: Experience with mobile and web animation libraries (e.g., Framer Motion, GSAP) to build engaging Stories or polished micro-interactions.

Master Mobile Deployment & Agile Workflows: Proficient with Git (GitHub, Bitbucket), mobile build/deployment pipelines (Fastlane, App Store Connect, Google Play Console), and Agile/Scrum methodologies.

 

 

DON’T MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS? DON’T WORRY…

Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Pelmorex values and welcomes diverse experiences. While having “desired” qualifications makes for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasnt followed a traditional path, dont let that stop you from considering Pelmorex. We are always looking for people who will be a culture add (yup, thats right, we don’t subscribe to culture fit, we want you to add to what we think is an amazing culture and work environment

INTERESTED? IT GETS BETTER….

Open and transparent communication, including All Hands Meetings with our CEO
Frequent employee pulse surveys 📝 we value your feedback so we can continue to make Pelmorex a great place to work!
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