Senior Front-End Platform Engineer

Bizzabo; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading event technology company based in Canada is looking for a Senior Front-End Platform Engineer to drive architectural evolution within their technical team. This role involves migrating legacy applications to modern technology stacks like Next.js and TypeScript and setting standards for performance, accessibility, and security. You will collaborate cross-functionally and have significant autonomy in choosing the tools that define the engineering culture of the future. This position offers a unique opportunity to impact organizational growth and technology evolution.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software development.
• Experience with legacy code systems and modern frameworks.
• Experience migrating applications to modern stacks.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute migration strategies to modern stacks.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and shared tooling.
• Set performance and security standards for web applications.

Skills

Node.js

React

TypeScript

Next.js

CI/CD

Webpack

Turborepo

Job description

Overview

Our front-end ecosystem is a journey through the history of web development—spanning everything from Backbone.js to modern React and Next.js architectures. We are looking for a Senior Front-End Platform Engineer to be the architect and executor of our technical evolution. You won’t just be shipping features; you will be building the foundation that allows our entire engineering team to move faster, stay secure, and transition seamlessly into the next generation of web technologies.

Our Tech Landscape

• Legacy: Backbone.js, older versions of Node.js, various state management libraries.
• Modern: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS.
• Infrastructure: [Insert your CI/CD e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS].

Why This Role?

This isn’t a "maintenance" role. This is a transformation role. You will have the autonomy to choose the tools and patterns that will define the next five years of our engineering culture.

Bizzabo’s Event Experience Operating System is a modern, intuitive platform used by the world’s leading organizations to deliver immersive experiences and events at scale. Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ and Forrester Wave™ for event technology, enterprises rely on Bizzabo to manage their entire event portfolio, regardless of format or size. Bizzabo is recognized by Newsweek as a 2024 Global Most Loved Workplace and as a 2024 Top Most Loved Workplaces® for LGBTQ+ employees. Bizzabo was founded in 2011 by Boaz Katz, Alon Alroy, and Eran Ben-Shushan and is headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Architectural Evolution: Design and execute migration strategies to move legacy applications (Backbone, older Node/React versions) toward a unified, modern stack (Next.js, TypeScript).
• Developer Experience (DX): Build and maintain shared tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and build systems (Webpack, Vite, Turborepo) that serve multiple FE applications.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as a bridge between teams, providing the "paved path" for feature developers to adopt new patterns without friction.
• Performance & Standards: Set the bar for web vitals, accessibility, and security across our disparate applications.
• Legacy Interoperability: Create "bridges" or micro-frontend patterns that allow our old and new stacks to coexist gracefully during the transition.

What We Are Looking For

• 5+ Years in Software Development: You have deep experience building, shipping, and maintaining complex products.
• The "Polyglot" Mindset: You are comfortable jumping into a Backbone file one hour and a Next.js Server Component the next. You respect legacy code for the value it provides while being eager to improve it.
• Migration Experience: You have successfully led or participated in large-scale migrations (e.g., JS to TS, Monolith to Micro-frontends, or Class-based to Functional React).
• Deep Tooling Knowledge: Expert-level understanding of Node.js environments, package managers (pnpm/yarn), and the modern build pipeline.
• Pragmatism: You understand that we can't rewrite everything overnight. You know how to prioritize technical debt based on business impact.
• LLM Believer: You know how to use Cursor, Gemini and are not afraid to do it. You know that LLM and Agents are tools that help engineers solve engineering problems.

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