Front-End Developer

The role involves developing and enhancing the front-end of web applications by implementing UI/UX designs, building user-facing features, and improving the usability and quality of existing interfaces. Daily work includes writing responsive, reusable code using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks, and integrating front-end components with backend APIs.

The Front-End Developer also focuses on optimizing applications for performance, scalability, cross-browser compatibility, and front-end security. In addition, it involves collaborating with designers and developers, participating in code reviews, and performing unit and system testing to ensure code quality and reliable functionality.

Role Description

• Improve the quality of the existing UI and develop new user-facing features
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Reorganizing the software flow to uplift the user experience
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Perform code reviews, unit testing, and system testing as needed for other developers’ efforts. At a minimum, code reviews, unit testing, and system testing should ensure all requirements have been addressed, all basic functionality works, and errors are handled properly.

Skillset Expectations

Must-Have Experience

• 5-10 years of professional experience
• Basic knowledge ASP .NET and page life cycle
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as Angular, Vue.JS, React, or Ember etc., or JS-based build tools like Grunt, Gulp, and Bower
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT

Tools and Languages

• Version Control (e.g., GIT), Visual Studio 2015+, ASP.NET Core, an open-source web development framework | .NET / MVC, Data formats (e.g., JSON, XML), Data APIs (e.g. Restful API), Web Font Embedding, Scalable Vector Graphics (aka SVG)
• Responsive Web Design, Object-Oriented Programming, JavaScript Animation, CSS Animation, Charts / Graphs, UI Widgets, Code Quality
• Testing, Integration Testing, Templating Strategies, Templating Engines, Single Page Applications, XHR Requests (AJAX), Web/Browser Security, HTML Semantics, Browser Developer Tools
• Experience working with graphic designers and UI/UX requirements
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Knowledge of SOAP and REST API

Other Requirements:

Only apply if you are a Montreal (or surroundings) resident that is interested in being part of a vibrant and highly engaged at-the-office culture.

At Explorance, we take inclusion to heart and live it each day. We put the ‘human’ first in everything we do and take pride in our authenticity and culture of inclusion. We therefore encourage persons of any race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, immigration status, disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics to apply. We make employment-related decisions without regard to any of these characteristics. And to ensure a safe workspace for all our employees, all employment is contingent upon receipt of a satisfactory background and reference check.

About Explorance

Explorance empowers organizations with next-generation feedback analytics to accelerate the insight-to-action cycle, encouraging the philosophy of “Feedback for the brave” to drive purpose, impact, and growth.

Bringing 20 years of expertise, Explorance, a member of the World Economic Forum and a trusted partner for 35% of Fortune 100 companies and 25% of the world’s top higher education institutions, has influenced over 25 million individuals with award-winning solutions like Blue, Metrics That Matter, and MLY.

Consistently among the top employers by the Great Places to Work Institute®, Explorance, a Brandon Hall AI award winner, is also a two-time Global Leader in the 360-degree feedback market by Fortune Business Insights.

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