Front-end Developer (Application Development - Customer)

Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.

Are you passionate about working on complex web and mobile applications and proficient in technologies such as Angular, React and React Native. As a member of our development team, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining innovative web and mobile applications that meet the needs of our clients and users. The candidate should be self-driven, highly motivated, innovative, and ready to deliver with our agile development teams. This is a great opportunity for a results-oriented software developer to analyze and build leading-edge solutions.

The Front-end Developer will report to the Manager, Digital Development.

This position may be located in Montreal or Toronto.

Responsibilities:

• Write clean, modular, and well-documented code following best practices and coding standards.
• Develop user interfaces using Angular, ensuring responsiveness, accessibility, and optimal performance.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Angular core concepts (components, modules/standalone components, directives, services, dependency injection, lifecycle hooks).
• Hands-on experience with RxJS for reactive programming (Observables, Subjects, operators, error handling, subscription management).
• Solid experience with NgRx Store for scalable state management (actions, reducers, effects, selectors, entity patterns).
• Implement complex frontend logic using RxJS and NgRx in enterprise-scale Angular applications.
• Good understanding of Angular architecture patterns, routing, lazy loading, guards, interceptors, and reusable component design.
• Build and maintain robust forms using Reactive Forms with synchronous/asynchronous validations.
• Familiarity with frontend build tools and workflows such as Angular CLI, Webpack, Babel, or similar tooling.
• Write and maintain unit/integration tests for Angular apps (Jasmine/Karma/Jest/Cypress or equivalent).
• Stay updated on emerging frontend technologies best practices and advocate for their adoption when appropriate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 4+ years of web application development experience.
• Experience with web application frameworks - Angular and React
• Implement complex frontend logic using RxJS for reactive programming.
• Proficiency in HTML/ CSS, JavaScript
• Utilize NgRx Store for state management to ensure scalable and maintainable code.
• Comfortable developing in an Agile environment.
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery/Deployment experience
• Real-world experience with mission-critical enterprise REST / GraphQL APIs (either as consumer or producer)
• Good understanding of cross platform development using PAAS cloud systems.
• Good understanding of frontend builds tools such as Webpack, Babel, or Parcel.
• Comfortable analyzing network traffic using Fiddler/Postman/Wireshark etc.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and in rapidly changing environments.
• Demonstrates openness and willingness to adapt to new ways of doing things.
• Takes responsibility for the results and actively participates in the future direction of the organization.
• Demonstrates concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers.
• Focuses on the accomplishment of the team’s and unit’s work; sets challenging goals and meets or exceeds goals.
• Ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team in person.
• Approaches a problem by using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach.
• Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.

Assets:

• Certifications in core programming languages, Cloud platforms, DevOps and Agile methodologies.
• Experience with native module development (Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, or Java).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and mobile deployment pipelines.
• Experience with testing frameworks.
• Experience with cloud services and backend integrations (Firebase, AWS, etc.).
• Understanding of security best practices in web and mobile applications.

Conditions of Employment:

Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest at the time any offer of employment is made and are responsible for obtaining any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations necessary for employment. Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.

Linguistic Requirements

Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.

Diversity and Inclusion

Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.

Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.