Front End Developer – Digital Arts

Edjuster; Old Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is on the lookout for a Front End Web Developer to join their dynamic Digital Arts team in Toronto. This role involves creating engaging web applications that empower digital artists, ensuring a seamless user experience while maintaining high performance. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate closely with designers to build tools that users rely on daily. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact in the digital arts space, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a team that values creativity and innovation, and help shape the future of digital artistry.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of experience with large-scale internet applications.
• Strong understanding of client-side code performance and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Build apps for digital artists, focusing on user experience and performance.
• Collaborate with designers and cross-functional teams to create compelling interactions.

Skills

HTML

JavaScript

Agile Development

Cross-Browser Compatibility

Debugging

Unit Testing

User Experience Design

Education

Degree in Computer Engineering

Equivalent Work Experience

Tools

Git

Github

MySQL

MongoDB

Node.js

AWS

LAMP stack

Job description

Do you want to make software that matters to millions?

Autodesk’s Advanced Consumer Group is looking for a Front End Web Developer that cares as much about technology as they do for the user experience. The Digital Arts team in Toronto has big plans for expanding the Pixlr and Sketchbook product lines onto the web. You’ll be helping to create Digital Arts products like SketchBook and Pixlr which have loyal, creative and passionate users who expect solid, robust and elegant products.

Job title and REQ#: Front End Developer – Digital Arts / REQ13WD14451
Location: Toronto, ON

What you’ll be doing:

1. Build apps that allow the next generation of digital artists to shine and show off
2. Find out where the interactive web is going next
3. Speak to an audience of millions
4. Listen and respond when they tell you what’s wrong
5. Pushing yourself, have the drive to build award winning software
6. Work closely with designers to come up with compelling interactions
7. Build creative web apps that will be used as professional utilities, where users spend hours working and expect not to lose even a second of that work
8. Participate in a collaborative environment with a cross-functional team
9. Build with APIs and shareable functionality in mind
10. Build out functionality that balances both the user experience and performance
11. Maintain existing platforms and applications (Don’t worry, we have cool existing tech)
12. Define our new Stack

What you’ve done:

1. Developed a healthy sense of humour
2. 4-5 years work on large scale internet applications
3. Degree in computer engineering / science or equivalent work experience
4. Experience creating high-performance, cross-browser client-side code that is robust, scalable, and cacheable
5. Relational, Document and Key / Value databases
6. Web infrastructure, distributed systems and third party service integration
7. Understood the engineering aspects of software development (unit testing, continuous integration, cross-browser compatibility, code reviews, design docs)
8. Experience with server and client side development
9. Thrived in an agile, iterative, things-will-change-often environment
10. Benchmarked, debugged and profiled applications
11. LAMP stack

What you’ve picked up:

1. HTML & JavaScript
2. Flash / Air or Silverlight or jQuery
3. Git and Github
4. MySQL, MongoDB
5. Memcached, Redis
6. Node.js
7. C++ or Java or C#
8. Node.js and Express
9. AWS or Linode

Would be nice if you knew:

1. WebGL
2. Scala, GO, Haskell
3. Other types of app development (desktop, mobile, embedded)