Front End Platform Developer

Borrowell; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company in Toronto seeks a Frontend Developer to optimize their codebase shared between web and mobile platforms. You will enhance the mobile app using React Native, ensuring optimal performance and collaborating with various teams to deliver a superb user experience. Ideal candidates have over 3 years of experience in React/React Native, strong proficiency in TypeScript, and are comfortable in a monorepo environment. Join a remote-first team with a commitment to financial stability for all.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits

WFH reimbursement

Flexible working hours

Employee development benefits

Paid volunteer day

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience building applications in React or React Native.
• Strong React fundamentals including hooks and state management.
• Experience with TypeScript in production code.

Responsibilities

• Optimize monorepo setup for code sharing between React and React Native.
• Consult on defining 'Golden Path' for new features.
• Maintain and enhance mobile application using React Native.

Skills

React

React Native

TypeScript

State management

RESTful APIs

Git

Tools

Monorepo

CI/CD

Automated testing frameworks

Job description

About Borrowell:

At Borrowell, we’re on a mission to help Canadians feel confident about their money. We empower individuals to take control of their financial futures by providing the tools and insights needed to understand, build, and use their credit effectively.

1 in 10 Canadians use Borrowell for comprehensive credit monitoring and personalized insights. Our innovative services, including Credit Builder and rent reporting, help consumers build credit so they can unlock access to a wider range of financial products at more competitive rates. Additionally, we offer personalized financial product recommendations from Canada’s most trusted providers based on each member’s credit profile and financial goals.

About the Role:

This role is within Borrowell's Frontend Platform team, focused on building the foundational components to support product teams. Unlike a typical product role, you won’t just be building features; you will be a force multiplier for the entire engineering organization. You will own the architecture of our universal codebase (Web + Mobile), maintain our Expo & Monorepo infrastructure, and design the tools that allow our product teams to iterate quickly and safely.

The role involves cross‑functional collaboration with Product, Design, Engineering, Data and QA teams across the company. With an increasing percentage of our members preferring mobile to web, you will see how your efforts make an immediate, lasting impact on helping our members achieve financial stability.

In the first year, you can expect to:

1. Optimize our monorepo setup to ensure seamless code sharing between React (Web) and React Native (Mobile), reducing duplication and friction.
2. Serve as a technical consultant to product teams, defining the "Golden Path" for new features and raising the bar on code quality.
3. Maintain and enhance the mobile application using React Native, ensuring reliability and release health.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience building applications in React or React Native.
• Strong React fundamentals (hooks, state management, component patterns).
• TypeScript experience in production code.
• Experience with state management (React Context, React Query, or similar).
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and async data fetching patterns.
• Solid Git and PR workflow experience.
• Comfort working in a monorepo or multi‑app environment.
• Experience in designing, building cross‑platform shared UI components across web and mobile.
• Familiarity with mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and app store submission processes.

Nice to Haves

• Fullstack experience in backend technologies and database systems.
• Familiarity with micro‑frontend architectures.

• Experience managing dependencies and shared logic in a Monorepo environment.
• Expo development and OTA update workflow.
• Exposure to AI coding tools such as Cursor and Claude Code.
• Working in fast‑paced and high‑growth startups.

The Opportunity

Join and have a major impact at a growing company that is helping make financial stability possible for everybody.

Comprehensive Health Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and paramedical health benefits for you and your family, with extra yearly coverage for psychotherapists and massage therapists.

Additional Health Benefits

Virtual benefit offering that allows you to connect 24/7 with nurses, doctors and mental health professionals.

Mother‑/Parental Leave Top‑up

Available to new parents.

WFH Reimbursement

We ship you gear like a laptop, mouse, keyboard, and you can reimburse additional items to make your workplace better for you.

Employee Development Benefit

Annual reimbursements on payments to help your learning.

Givewell Benefit

1 paid volunteer day a year to give back to the community.

Flexibility

Flexible working hours and a flexible vacation policy.

We are remote‑first across Canada with an office in Toronto. This role will require you to attend in‑person meetings and team‑building events.

At Borrowell, one of our core values and firm beliefs is that diversity makes us better. If you’re unsure about your qualifications for this position, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for candidates who have experience, but know that not everyone’s had a chance to demonstrate what they can do. What’s most important is that you have a growth mindset and care about helping people with their finances – an area in their lives that causes a lot of stress.

Please note that due to the sensitive nature of the work we do, clearing a credit and criminal record check is a condition of employment.

Borrowell encourages applications from candidates with differing abilities. Please let us know if you require accommodation at any stage in the selection process.

This posting represents a current and active vacancy within our organization.

The budgeted annual salary range for this role is $80,000 – $130,000 CAD. Starting pay is determined by the candidate's relevant experience and skills. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for Borrowell’s full benefits package.