Senior Front-End Developer

Join a Montreal headquarter company that helps organizations around the world create a personalized journey of impact and fulfillment for their people. Explorance offers innovative People Insight Solutions because we believe that each experience matters.

Explorance is a rapidly growing software company recognized for its unique workplace culture. We strive to be the best we can for our people, our customers, and the community. Currently, we are looking for a Front-End Developer who always strives for software excellence and continuous improvement.

The Senior Front-End Developer will design and develop new features and enhancements to software applications that meet business specification. Primary responsibilities include wireframing and front-end implementation, user experience, usability, CSS layout, DOM manipulation, progressive enhancement / graceful degradation, cross-browser testing, unit testing, accessibility, user interaction and user interface design. If you think youll enjoy working in a result-driven laid-back environment with flexible hours, then keep reading.

What you will do as our new Front-End Developer

• 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.

Here's what you'll bring to the role:

• 5 - 10 years experience
• Basic knowledge ASP .NET and page life cycle
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Proficient understanding of adaptive and responsive designs and tools such as Bootstrap
• 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 / 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
• Knowledge of SOAP and REST API

Other Requirements

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