Senior Front-End Developer (ReactJS)
Goodfood Market Corp., Canada
Job Description
Goodfood Market (TSX:FOOD) is a leading online grocery service in Canada, delivering fresh meal solutions that make it easy for members from coast to coast to enjoy delicious meals at home every week. Goodfood’s mission is to make the impossible come true, from farm to kitchen, by enabling members to do their weekly meal planning and grocery shopping in minutes. Goodfood members get access to a unique selection of products online as well as exclusive pricing made possible by its world-class direct-to-consumer fulfillment eco-system. Goodfood currently has more than 370,000 active subscribers and over 4,000 dedicated and passionate employees across Canada.
As a Senior Front-End Developer you will be responsible for building features in a cross-collaborative team for the best ecommerce shopping platform allowing customers to shop for groceries in more ways and receive them when and how they want it.
Job Responsibilities
- Build quality code using modern tooling, testing frameworks and programming patterns.
- Ability to transform business requirements and research into a world-class solution that meets performance goals and brand guidelines in a fast-paced environment.
- Assess and measure performance of systems and come up with suggestions for improvements
- Work closely with Product, UX, Analytics and other developers to build the best product and solution possible
- Work closely with back-end developers in building features and efficiencies for the realization of the anticipated end product
- Participate in regularly scheduled team ceremonies and meetings with the project team to understand requirements, suggest product improvements, explain code design, provide estimates, describe work progress and identify risks.
- Work with the team to implement process improvements.
- Conduct design, code reviews and provide mentorship to others.
- Stay up-to-date with front end technology and web standards
Requirements
- 7+ years of working experience in software development
- Proficient in web technologies, Javascript and responsive web design
- A keen eye for front-end performance and utilizing technique to improve actual and perceived performance.
- Deep knowledge of programming best practices, software design patterns and industry standards like SOLID principles.
- Good understanding of Web Accessibility concerns and familiarity with accessibility standards such as AODA, WCAG AAA, etc.
- Recent experience with either React/VueJs/Angular and frontend tooling such as webpack/babel.
- Working experience with PHP templating engines such as Blade, Twig, Moustache, etc.
- Full stack experience is an asset: API design, scalability, database design
- Experience working with third party tools such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hot Jar, Chat Agents, etc.
- Ability to create testable code and maintain and update the testing suite as required using tooling such as Cypress, Jest, Storybook, etc.
- Strong verbal skills and ability to explain and present ideas clearly to different business groups
- Good understanding of engineering for the web, http, server api, content delivery networks and caching
- CSS tooling experience using LESS, SASS and/or a framework similar to TailwindCSS
- E-commerce experience is an asset
- Backend experience with PHP, GraphQL, MySQL is preferred
Why Goodfood?
Our team strives to give our members a world class customer experience. We believe in being ambassadors of the brand to make the impossible come true from farm to table!
What we have to offer our employees
- E-commerce/ Start-up and fun work environment
- Ability to directly impact company results
- Competitive Group Insurance
- Personal days
- Bonus program
- Annual fitness credit
- Goodfood credits
- Employee stock purchase plan