Front-end Web Developer

About Us

We’re a talented team of product managers, digital marketers, developers, and product designers building Canada’s leading financial product comparison platform,  We compare mortgage rates, credit card rewards, deposit returns and insurance quotes. We love helping Canadians save money by empowering them with the tools to make smart financial decisions. We believe in financial transparency, product innovation, entrepreneurship, and community.

We are looking for a passionate web developer to join the Ratehub team who will maintain and enhance Ratehub’s web interfaces, ensuring they are up-to-date and visually appealing. The ideal candidate will work closely with product owners, UI/UX designers and other engineers to build applications that exceed customer expectations.

• Creating elegant and responsive web interfaces that work across a range of browsers and devices using HTML5, CSS3, ES6, React and Webpack
• Maintaining and extending our blog and content management systems
• Building integration points between systems using web services and leveraging external web services to provide functionality
• Working with support, marketing, business and other team members to identify product and process improvements, suggest implementation options, trade‑off alternatives, and make engineering decisions

• High performer:
  You’re a project completer, not a 9‑to‑5er
• Passionate:
  You inspire others with your thirst for excellence
• Resourceful:
  You don’t have all the answers, but you know how to get them
• Meticulous:
  You’re borderline obsessive about quality and ensuring users get the best possible experience

• 2+ years experience building web and mobile‑optimized websites
• Proficiency with HTML and CSS, and experience implementing complex layouts with a high degree of fidelity to designs; experience with SASS
• High comfort with JavaScript; experience with a modern JS application framework (React/Flux, Ember, Angular, etc.) is a strong plus
• Knowledge of content management systems (CMS) and experience customizing/extending CMSes to provide web applications
• Experience with source version control;
  Git strongly preferred
• Familiarity with Linux, macOS or another Unix‑like operating system; comfortable in the terminal
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Competitive salary
• Medical & dental coverage
• Continuing education: conference and learning budget
• Casual dress code

Ratehub offers a friendly, innovative and collaborative work environment. Our engineering team is based in downtown Kingston, ON. We support each individual in fulfilling their potential.