Job Title: Senior Front End Engineer

Job Location: Toronto, Canada Onsite

Duration: Long-Term

About WCT:

WaferWire Technology Solutions (WCT) specializes in delivering comprehensive Cloud, Data and AI solutions through Microsoft's technology stack. Our services include Strategic Consulting, Data/AI Estate Modernization, and Cloud Adoption Strategy. We excel in Solution Design encompassing Application, Data, and AI Modernization, as well as Infrastructure Planning and Migrations. Our Operational Readiness services ensure seamless DevOps, ML Ops, AI Ops, and Sec Ops implementation. We focus on Implementation and Deployment of modern applications, continuous Performance Optimization, and future-ready innovations in AI, ML, and security enhancements. Delivering from Redmond-WA, USA, Guadalajara, Mexico and Hyderabad, India, our scalable solutions cater precisely to diverse business requirements and multiple time zones (US time zone alignment).

Job Description:

We are seeking a strong frontend engineer with proven experience of developing rich web applications to millions of users to join our Stores and Social team. You will be responsible for architecture, design and delivery of critical seller and buying facing features and use the standard methodologies in UI development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with peers, Architects, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet functional and non-functional standards and expectations.
• Be involved in development, testing, release, triage, bug fix, documentation and work in an Agile environment. Use of tools like JIRA, Git, CICD and other internal tools on a regular basis to prioritize work and deliver features.
• Deliver world class web experiences for sellers utilizing modern web technologies while maintaining high quality, reusability, performance and other front end standard methodologies.
• Though this role expects your mastery in Frontend development, you have to be comfortable with all the layers of multi-tier applications to design complete solutions and maintain products.
• Participate in technical design and code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers on the team.
• Estimate engineering efforts, roadmap planning and be responsible for operational processes, such as automation and controls, to help with efficiency and quality of both manual and technical operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field plus 12+ years of experience in building large-scale web based distributed systems.
• Proficient in Web/Frontend technologies and frameworks like Node.JS, HTML5, CSS3 with LESS or SASS, JavaScript, Ajax, streaming technologies.
• Proficient in Javascript concepts of scopes, prototype inheritance, closures, promises, async and await, shared memory etc. Experience with transpilers, package management, modules is preferable.
• Solid CSS3 skills including layouts, media-queries, responsive design, gradients, transitions, positioning, flex, box models, floating and block elements, inlining, preprocessors etc.
• Hands on frontend testing skills using frameworks such as Mocha/Chai, use of mocks/spies/stubs, visual regression like percy, code coverage and CI/CD integrations like Jenkins.
• Must have solid understanding of defining REST based interfaces and have a good understanding of storage technologies (relational and NoSQL)
• Experience building drag and drop functionality, image editing, video upload capabilities, real time streaming is desirable
• Proficiency with Security, Accessibility, Site Speed optimization, Cross-browser /Cross-platform UX Design is desirable
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Compensation / Salary Range: The typical pay for this role across the U.S. is: 40/hr - $45/hr. Factors that may affect pay within or outside of this range may include but not limited to geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

WCT will accept applications and processes offers for these roles until the role is filled.

Equal Employment Opportunity Declaration:

WCT is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.