Senior Front-End Engineer

GuruLink; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth SaaS company in Vancouver is seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer to enhance their product vision and user interfaces. Responsibilities include implementing client applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 6 years of software development experience, particularly with JavaScript and reactive technologies. This role offers equity, medical benefits, and a flexible vacation policy, requiring an on-site commitment four days a week.

Benefits

Equity

Medical/Dental Benefits

Flex Vacation Policy

Choice of Apple Hardware

Qualifications

• At least 6+ years of software development experience.
• Strong background in modern web APIs and libraries.
• Experience with reactive technologies and client data handling.

Responsibilities

• Implement user interfaces for client applications.
• Support the definition and implementation of client/server APIs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Modern web APIs

JavaScript

TypeScript

Reactive technologies

Client data handling

Job description

Overview

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

Our client is a Vancouver-based high-growth, well-funded SaaS company dedicated to enhancing software development workflows. Their platform helps development teams quickly find answers to their application-related questions, significantly reducing time spent in meetings and on interruptions, and allowing them to focus more on coding.

With an experienced founding team (second-time founders), this is a small, agile team with large ambitions and the capacity and capability to deliver. This role will offer a unique opportunity to shape their product vision and roadmap through customer and user feedback.

They are searching for a senior Front-End Engineer to join their team. In this role, you will be:

• implementing user interfaces for client applications
• Implementing design for marketing and collateral purposes
• Support the definition of client/server APIs (also help with implementation)
• Work and collaborate with cross-functional teams (Back-End and Design team)

This is an intermediate -> senior engineer role. The successful candidate will have strong fundamentals and be pushing to grow into the next stage of their career.

Special Perks

• Equity
• Medical/Dental Benefits
• Flex Vacation Policy
• Choice of Apple Hardware

Must Have Skills

• Have at least 6+ years of software development skills using modern web APIs and libraries
• Have experience building with reactive technologies
• Have experience building applications using JavaScript or TypeScript
• Have experience with client data handling techniques such as fetching, processing and caching

Please note that this is an on-site role that requires a 4x a week in-office commitment.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with web-adjacent technologies (Node, Electron)
• Experience building client or server APIs and backend services
• Experience working with design interfaces