Senior Front-End Developer

Haply Robotics; Montreal; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Haply Robotics, a Montreal-based hardware company, is seeking a Senior Front-End Developer to own Haply Hub and related public surfaces. You’ll build clean, responsive interfaces across desktop and web platforms, coordinating with a Rust backend and shipping with the product team.

You’ll contribute to UX-driven UI, maintain the docs site and landing pages, and help set high standards for usability, performance, and accessibility across Haply’s front-end stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of front-end experience, with 3+ in a TS/React environment.
• Experience with Rust + Tauri, or strong willingness to ramp up.
• Familiarity with Next.js, Astro, or similar for content sites.
• Strong UX sense; ability to turn sketches into polished UI.
• Proficient with GitLab workflows, PRs, and CI pipelines.
• Experience with large, multi-repo enterprise codebases.
• Ability to plan changes and seek review before implementing.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Haply Hub front-end (Tauri 2) with a Rust backend.
• Build and maintain the documentation hub and public docs site.
• Ship updates to the main Haply website and product launch pages.
• Collaborate with product and UX on configurators and integration UIs.
• Set front-end quality standards: design tokens, components, performance, accessibility.

Skills

TypeScript / React

Rust + Tauri

Next.js / Astro

UX / Visual design

GitLab CI/CD

Conventional Commits

Multi-language apps

Planning & reviews

Tools

GitLab

Job description

We are hiring a Senior Front-End Developer to own and evolve the interfaces that bring Haply's hardware to life for customers.

About Haply

Haply Robotics builds the world's most precise haptic devices, deployed in research labs, industrial integration projects, and production environments where "good" and "right" are measured in milliseconds and millinewtons. As robots and autonomous systems grow more capable, humans still need intuitive ways to teach, guide, and supervise physical tasks, and Haply builds the platform that lets people do that through touch and motion.

Since 2018, we've built precision haptic controllers that let people and machines feel and respond to the physical world with microscopic precision. We've raised over $20 million CAD from leading venture and strategic investors, and we're partnering across robotics and industrial automation to bring touch and control into physical AI, building toward a leading, privately-valued Canadian company with real venture-scale upside for those who join us early.

About the Role

You'll join the front-end team building the surfaces that put Haply in our customers' hands. The centre of gravity is Haply Hub, our Tauri desktop application that pairs a JS/React frontend with a Rust backend and is the way most users interact with our hardware day-to-day. From there, you'll also work on our public web properties: the main website, the documentation hub, and the release/landing pages that ship alongside new product launches.

You'll work shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the front-end team, take direction and feedback from the product team, get direct signal from customers using our tools, and partner with our UX designers to turn ideas into shipped surfaces.

This is a senior-leaning role for someone who likes to ship. Fast iterations, polished UX, real users on the other end.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve the front-end of Haply Hub, our Tauri 2 desktop app. Pair clean, minimal interfaces with a Rust backend, coordinate command and event flows, and ship across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Build and maintain our documentation hub: the public-facing docs site that developers and integrators rely on. Information architecture, search, code examples that actually run.
• Ship updates to the main Haply website and to the release/landing pages that go live with each product launch. The kind of work that needs to look intentional on day one.
• Collaborate with product and UX on configurators and integration UIs for our haptic devices and HARP. The kind of UX that lets a non-technical operator drive a six-axis robot through a haptic device without thinking about it.
• Set the bar on front-end quality across the org: design tokens, componentization, performance, accessibility, instrumentation.

Ways of Working

• Self-starter who takes ownership of problems end-to-end, from investigation through to a clean, reviewed solution. Able to identify and remove blockers rather than waiting for them to be cleared.
• Plans changes before implementing. Writes up intent, considers impact on adjacent systems, and seeks review before making significant modifications.
• Communicates proactively with the team, especially when working near domain boundaries (e.g. control logic, firmware, hardware behaviour).
• Comfortable working without full domain context. Able to read code, ask the right questions, and contribute meaningfully alongside specialists.
• Proficiency with git, structured PR/review workflows, TDD, and multi-language apps.
• Experience with large, enterprise codebases and multi-repo projects.

What We're Looking For

Required

• 5+ years of front-end experience with at least 3 in a TypeScript / React (or Preact) world.
• Working knowledge of Rust + Tauri, or strong willingness to ramp up. Most of our desktop work is Tauri 2.
• Comfort with at least one modern web framework for content sites (Next.js, Astro, or similar) and the static-vs-SSR trade-offs that come with documentation and marketing pages.
• Solid sense of UX and visual design. You can take a Figma sketch or a Slack message and ship something that looks intentional.
• Comfortable using GitLab day-to-day: branches, MRs, code review, CI pipelines.
• Conventional Commits and modern multi-platform CI on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• You plan changes before implementing. You write up intent, consider impact on adjacent systems, and seek review before significant modifications.
• Self-starter who removes their own blockers rather than waiting for them to clear.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping a Tauri (or Electron) desktop app to production.
• Experience building or maintaining a documentation site (Docusaurus, Mintlify, Nextra, custom).
• 3D / canvas / WebGL / Three.js for haptics and robot visualisations.
• WebSocket and streaming UIs against a Rust backend (tokio, axum).
• Visual design chops, motion / micro-interactions, brand-driven web work.
• Exposure to robotics, haptics, simulation, or motion-control concepts.
• Bilingual French/English. Working environment is bilingual.

Why Join

• A tight, autonomous team with short feedback loops — no layers to fight through, just fast decisions and real momentum.
• Own the product customers see first. Haply Hub is the front door to everything we build, and you'll be the one shaping it.
• Build with a stack you'd pick yourself, on hardware that's actually on your desk, not behind a slide deck.
• A modern downtown Montreal office, great coffee, and a team that cares about craft as much as you do!