Frontend Web Engineers (JavaScript React/Redux), Remote within Canada (PT or FT)
Radical I/O Technology Inc., Canada
Job Description
Hiya! We’re Radical I/O, a people-first enterprise software development consultancy and lab that develops technology with purpose. We work with cities and organizations to develop meaningful, data-driven solutions that provide people with easy access to information, when and where they need it.
We are currently focusing on our new SimpliCity SaaS platform for Canadian municipalities that is currently in development for our first early adopter customer. SimpliCity is the combination of a flexible API-first headless CMS, a content creation web console, and a highly performant Canadian cloud-hosted website publishing platform to support municipal digital transformation goals.
THE POSITION
We're on the lookout for skilled JavaScript Frontend Web Engineers with experience developing larger B2B and B2C single page web apps in React/Redux. You're as strong in CSS as you are in React. You will primarily be working on our new SimpliCity product, but at times you may also be asked to help on some other civic customer development work from time-to-time.
Typically you have worked on medium and large web applications (not just websites) that consume data from JSON APIs, and you are comfortable working with enterprise customer expectations. You are comfortable working with a high-level of independence, initiative, detail, and quality. You strive to ensure that your code is easy-to-read and of high quality, and your UI interfaces are interactive and pixel-perfect.
Version 1 of our platform is already well in development, with a release targeted for the end of January, and then onboarding our first customer and lots of new features and enhancements happening after that. We'll need additional help from you to build UIs for our content console (as well as our customers' websites) per designs, and also perform bug fixes where needed. You will receive direct support from a Senior Fullstack Engineer as well as a Principal Engineer.
We would consider it a desirable bonus if you've worked with the government, or other civic/education/non-profit organizations before. We particularly love working with people who are purpose/value-driven, and who are accepting, open-minded, collaborative, communicative, and down-to-earth. SimpliCity is woman-led by Founder amp; CEO Briana Sim; therefore, inclusive and flexible hiring processes and working conditions are important to us. We hope they are important to you too!
TIMELINE
We are hiring 1 to 2 JavaScript Frontend Web Engineers for a 6+ months contract to start end of January/beginning of February. This position may be extended and/or turned into a full-time permanent role depending on how our company grows and in your interest in continuing to work with us.
We are open to both full-time (35 hours/week) and part-time (20 hours/week) availability, and you are welcome to work either 4 or 5 days per week. If you are not working from within BC, then we would need the bulk of your daily hours to overlap within our 9am-6pm PST team hours (you can choose which hours within those times work best for you, with some hours outside core hours also doable).
You will be working remotely from within Canada (sorry, candidates physically located outside of Canada will not be considered). Therefore, you will need to provide your own comfortable workspace and development environment.
We will be shortlisting candidates quickly within the next 2 weeks, with most interviews taking place around mid-January or so.
Our budget is within the $35/hour to $55/hour range, depending on if you would like to be paid as an employee or a self-employed or incorporated contractor, as well as the strength of the experience you bring to the table.
REQUIREMENTS
We will be using the following in our project, so please highlight any relevant experience you have in any of these:
- Frontend JavaScript web development using ReactJS.
- Crafting great UI using HTML and CSS.
- Developing with mobile web responsiveness in mind.
- Consuming data from JSON APIs.
- Form validations.
- Text localization.
- Search and auto-complete.
- Redux state management.
- Bonus/nice to have's (but not required): Fullstack JavaScript web development with NodeJS, JSON APIs, SQL; Additional frontend skills in TypeScript and Angular; experience developing with headless content management systems (CMS) like contentful, strapi, etc or even traditional CMSes like Drupal.
We also usually look for people who:
- Have 3+ years of full-time software development experience, particularly with JavaScript.
- Possess a university degree in computer science, engineering or related field,
- or - a combination of experience and relevant certificates/learning/courses. - Write clean code, have written unit tests, and adhere to