Senior Frontend Developer

Founded in 2017, TripArc  is a $750 million privately held company powers the top Travel Agencies and Tour Operators in North America. Our expansive and growing network empowers seamless access to a comprehensive range of travel options and services globally with over $750 million transactions annually - all at the industry’s best rates.

As an industry leader in technology, purchasing, finance, HR and marketing, we know how to deliver solutions to travel professionals in the most effective way possible. With deep experience in partnering with two leading brands in the luxury travel space - Kensington Tours and Travel Edge - TripArc  has real insight into the needs of tour operators and travel agencies today.

TripArc’s  goals are simple. To make our network of over 1400 travel entities more profitable, efficient and help them create truly unique travel for their clients.

We are hiring at two levels. We welcome applications from both Frontend Developers and Senior Frontend Developers. The level offered will be based on the depth of the candidate’s experience, technical expertise, scope of ownership, and ability to lead work independently. 

This is a hybrid position, currently requiring a minimum of two days per week onsite at our office locatedat 2 Queen St. E in Toronto, ON. 

OUR ORGANIZATION

Kensington and TripArc, as part of the Range Group, deliver the world’s most personal travel experiences. We bring to life each client’s desire to travel in a way that is tailored specifically for them, in the company of local private guides who ensure they experience the authentic best of each destination. The result is a unique journey rich in memories that last a lifetime. 

We achieve this through extraordinary people with deep destination expertise across more than 120 countries and across our Tours, Cruises, Villas, Yachts, Jets, and Air brands. 

To learn more about Kensington, visit kensingtontours.com. 

To learn more about TripArc, visit triparc.com.

THE ROLE

Kensington and TripArc are expanding their development team to support projects and initiatives across kensingtontours.com, campaign landing pages, microsites, booking and enquiry flows, and related digital properties. You will work in a modern frontend stack that includes Next.js, React, Contentful, and Amplitude while helping complete a migration from a legacy Angular application and supporting a full brand redesign. 

At either level, you will create performant, accessible, responsive experiences for high-traffic, revenue-generating pages and use measurement to understand whether what you ship is working. The scope of ownership will be aligned to your experience: 

• Frontend Developer: You will build and maintain features within established patterns, implement experiments and analytics tracking, contribute to Contentful integrations and the design system, and grow your capability in conversion, performance, and technical discoverability through coaching and code review.
• Senior Frontend Developer: You will own frontend conversion, experimentation, performance, and technical discoverability as a practice. You will set standards, make architectural decisions, partner directly with senior marketing and digital stakeholders, mentor developers, and translate commercial goals into measurable, maintainable technical solutions. 

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Build high-quality frontend experiences  

• Design, build, and maintainfeatures in our modern frontend application using Next.js and React, including Contentfulintegrations. 

• Translate high-fidelity Figma designs into performant, accessible, responsive, mobile-first experiences and raise questions where requirements are unclear. 

• Build reusable components against our design system and contribute to the componentlibrary as we move into a full rebrand. 

• Configure or architect content models and CMS structures so marketing partners can build and update pages without developer support. 

• Maintain our legacy Angular application during migration and help retire it cleanly. 

• Write maintainable code, participatein code review, estimate work honestly, identifyrisks early, and document solutions for technical and non-technical partners. 

Improve conversion and measurement  

• Implement and instrument experiment variants on high-value pages, including event tracking, funnel visibility, and analytics needed to assess results. 

• Partner with marketing and digital stakeholders to translate commercial hypotheses into testable changes with clear success criteria. 

• Use experiment results and analytics to report whether changes worked and identify where users drop out of key journeys. 

• For Senior candidates: own the experimentation practice, design tests, establishstaged rollout and rollback guardrails, and ensure results are measured honestly. 

Protect performance and discoverability  

• Build experiences that meet expectations for Core Web Vitals, accessibility, application security, crawlability, and search discoverability. 

• Use appropriate renderingstrategies and frontend patterns based on content volatility, speed, performance, and crawlability. 

• Support technical SEO through semantic structure, structured data, internal linking, redirects, URL changes, and migration safety. 

• For Senior candidates: set and defend performance budgets, own production performance improvements, and build the technical foundations for SEO, AEO, and GEO. 

Collaborate and lead at the appropriate level  

• Communicate clearly with engineering, design, content, SEO, marketing, and digital partners. 

• Bring forward options, trade-offs, risks, and evidence rather than presenting only one answer. 

• For Intermediate candidates: learn actively from code review and technical direction, ask questions early, and take increasing ownership of defined areas. 

• For Senior candidates: define frontend standards and architectural patterns, review code, mentor developers, and act as a senior technical voice with business stakeholders. 

MUST-HAVE

For both levels

• Professional experience building and supporting web applications in production environments with real user traffic. 

• Strong component-based development experience withReact and hands-on experience with Next.js.  

• Solid frontend fundamentals, including componentarchitecture, state management, routing, rendering lifecycle, and frontend performance. 

• Strong modern CSS skills and experience building responsive, mobile-first user interfaces. 

• Experience with Git/GitHub and workingwithin a modern CI/CD pipeline. 

• Ability to translate designs into accessible, responsive, production-ready experiences and familiarity with Figma-based design handoffs. 

• Working knowledge of the web-platform fundamentals that affect commercial outcomes, including accessibility, SEO, Core Web Vitals, analytics, and application security.

For Frontend Developer

• 3-5 years of professional web development experience building and supporting production web applications. 

• Solid React development experience with hands-on experience using Next.js. 

For Senior Frontend Developer

• 6+ years of professional frontend development experience, including significant work on high-traffic, revenue-generating websites or applications. 

• Deep expertisein React and Next.js, including componentarchitecture, state management, routing, and performance optimization at scale. 

• Production experience with rendering strategies such as SSR, SSG, and ISR, and the ability to select the appropriate approachbased on business and technical requirements. 

• Experience integrating headless CMS platforms, preferably Contentful, including designing scalable content models and schemas. 

NICE TO HAVE

• A/B or multivariate testing tools such as Amplitude, Optimizely, VWO, or LaunchDarkly. 

• Analytics and tag implementation using Amplitude, GA4, Google Tag Manager, or equivalent tools. 

• Performance tooling such as Lighthouse, PageSpeedInsights, WebPageTest, and Chrome DevTools. 

• Technical SEO tooling such as Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, Semrush, or Botify. 

• Image and media optimization at scale, including modern formats, responsive delivery, CDN behaviour, and Cloudinary. 

• Personalization or content-variant delivery and an understanding of caching and indexing considerations. 

• Internationalization and Hreflangfor multi-region sites. 

• Angular 9+, Tailwind CSS, GraphQL, or Azure DevOps. 

• Experience in travel, hospitality, luxury, or high-content-volume ecommerce. 

OUR TECH STACK

• React, GraphQL, and Next.js for the modern application. 

• Angular, .NET Core, and C# for the legacy application. 

• Contentfuland Cloudinary. 

• Amplitude for analytics and experimentation. 

• Azure DevOps. 

COMPENSATION

We provide a competitive compensation package with a strong pay-for-performance rewards approach. Employees have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and compensation tied to business and individual performance. The expected compensation range for this position is:

• Frontend Developer: $90,000 to $110,000 CAD.
• Senior Frontend Developer: $110,000 to $125,000 CAD.

The actual compensation may vary depending on local market conditions, geography, and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. #LI-Hybrid #LI-KC1

We are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If you require accommodation due to a disability at any stage of our hiring process, please advise us when completing your application.

The Range Group may use artificial intelligence throughout the recruitment process to screen, assess or select applicants for this position. These tools assist our hiring team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.

We thank all candidates for their interest however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.