Frontend (React and Next) Developer - Canada
Xe, Canada
Job Description
At XE, we live currencies. We provide a comprehensive range of currency services and products, including our Currency Converter, Market Analysis, Currency Data API and quick, easy, secure Money Transfers for individuals and businesses. We leverage technology to deliver these services through our website, mobile apps and over the phone.
Last year, we helped nearly 300 million people access information about the currencies that matter to them, and over 350,000 people used us to send money overseas. Thousands of businesses relied on us for information about the currency markets, advice on managing their foreign exchange risk or trusted us with their business-critical international payments.
At XE, we share the belief that behind every currency exchange, query, or transaction is a person or business trying to accomplish something important, so we work together to develop new and better currency services that put our customers first.
We are proud to be part of Euronet Worldwide (Nasdaq: EEFT), a global leader in processing secure electronic financial transactions. Under Euronet, we have brought together our three key brands XE, HiFX and Ria Money Transfer to become the business that XE is today.
We are looking for an ambitious senior front-end developer to join our team. In this role, you will add new capabilities to our public site, xe.com. On Team Phoenix, you will be working on projects ranging from advanced SEO features to building new sets of pages, managing our headless CMS, and a lot more.
Our principles
AMBITION- We dream big, try things out and always ask why not? and what if? We’re ambitious in our thinking and our delivery
RESPONSIBILITY - We get involved, bring our perspective and are always open to new ideas. We take personal responsibility
COMMUNITY - We value a sense of belonging, trusting each other and encouraging authenticity. We contribute to our community
What you’ll do:
- Lead the Process: Own the design, development, testing, and deployment of the xe.com public website and its components
- SEO Guru: Implement advanced SEO features and techniques to enhance discoverability and search engine ranking
- Conduct technical SEO audits: Provide recommendations for on-page optimizations
- Optimize Applications: for maximum speed and scalability
- Be Part of the Team: work with an agile team of skilled and motivated developers
- Embrace New Technologies: Keep up on best practices for systems architecture
- Security and Privacy Knowledge: Respect security and privacy issues
- Demonstrate your Skills: Ensure all components are highly scalable, maintainable and monitored
- Showcase your Technical Brilliance: Deliver quality code using best practices
Requirements
Who you are:
- Advanced knowledge of JavaScript
- Proven experience (5+ years) as a front-end developer with a strong focus on React.js and Next.js
- Experience with TypeScript
- Experience working with RESTful APIs and integrating front-end with backend services
- Ability to solve computer problems in an efficient way
- Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility and accessibility standards
- Strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to articulate issues
- A strong understanding of the concepts associated with digital security
- A passion for learning
- Experience with AWS services
- Experience with CI/CD (preferably GitHub actions)
It Is Nice If You Have
- Experience with AWS services
- Experience with CI/CD (preferably GitHub actions)
Benefits
- Competitive Salary amp; Discretionary Bonus
- 3 weeks paid vacation
- 5 Personal Days
- Paid day off for your Birthday
- Healthcare
- Life amp; Disability insurance
- Matched employer RRSP contribution (subject to limits)
- Discounted Euronet Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Plumm Mental Health and Wellbeing
We want Xe to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects.
At Xe we are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes m