Front-End Web Developer

Position: silverorange: Front-End Web Developer
Headquarters:  Charlottetown, PE

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The company
silverorange is a design and development agency based in Canada. When pursuing work, we focus on interesting and meaningful projects. Over our 25 years as a company, we’ve worked with well-known technology organizations like Duolingo and Mozilla, not-for-profit organizations working in areas including affordable internet access for low-income families, and with world-renowned doctors training other doctors through online education.

We’re proud of the fantastic products we’ve built in partnership with our clients and we’re actively invested in the processes behind these products. We are committed to fostering a team-focused approach in our work of building great user-focused systems, while also placing a serious emphasis on quality of life, openness, empathy, and a supportive work environment.

The position
We’re looking for an intermediate Front-End Web Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with CSS and a passion for performance and accessibility.

We favour applicants with a strong sense of ownership over their own work. Excitement and ability to learn and contribute is more important to us than other metrics like years of experience.

This position is available immediately and we will work with you to get you started as soon as possible.

Responsibilities

Implementing updates and improvements on a mix of React, Python, and PHP-based websites, focusing on front-end technologies like CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.

Staying up-to-date with changes in front-end technologies, and sharing relevant changes with the rest of the team.

Reviewing code and content changes from other developers on the project.

Working from mockups (we use Figma), wireframes, and design systems.

Communicating with team members and clients to understand and balance requirements.

Identifying and helping to address performance and accessibility issues in Web and mobile systems.

Writing tests for your work.

Requirements

Be eligible & available to work from Canada.

Be able to quickly learn and understand new systems.

Have a solid understanding of core front-end Web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and understand how these standards relate to frameworks and libraries like React.

Have experience using version control systems like Git to manage changes.

Have experience working within reasonably complex integrated systems.

Have collaboratively developed features with a team.

Have experience with testing and continuous integration processes.

Be able to communicate clearly with clients and co-workers across multiple time zones. Several of our key clients are in California and we have team members across Canada.

While not required, if you have any of the following skills let us know:

Experience with design systems.

Backend API development in Node/Express.

Experience using a front-end library or framework like Vue, React, or Angular.

Mastering assets (SVG and/or PNG) from Figma for use on the Web.

Salesforce.

Project or product leadership experience in any profession or industry.

Growth & ownership
Our team is co-operative and will help you learn and expand your skills via mentoring, team-wide support, and learning opportunities. All members of the team are encouraged and given space to grow as individual contributors, and have ongoing opportunities in project and team leadership.

We’re excited to hear your fresh ideas and approach. We have decades of collective experience, and we all continue to become better at what we do by both teaching and learning from each other. Add your voice to our mix!

Opportunity for employee ownership is a fundamental part of silverorange (non-founders currently own more than a third of the company) and we’re currently working on new ways to transfer even more ownership to employees.

Inclusion & diversity
People with different backgrounds and experiences make us stronger, and we’re always looking for ways to improve. Our team is getting more diverse across many dimensions of diversity, but we’re still missing perspectives that could make our work better. We highly encourage people from traditionally underrepresented groups in our…