Senior Software Engineer

Are you a software developer who loves building beautiful user interfaces? Would making an impact on the digital experiences of millions of users excite you? Join our Cloud Experience Engineering Team

Our Cloud Experience Engineering team is a group of dedicated professionals shaping Akamai's aspirations to create an industry-leading user experience. We take ownership for the design and development for core interfaces, applications and services. We create an experience that allows customers and internal stakeholders to build software using the best of internal and third‑party technologies.

As a Front‑End Senior Software Engineer, you will thrive on delivering outstanding quality and functionality to our customers. You will conceptualize, build and maintain user interfaces and shared web components across all of Akamai. You will work in a collaborative capacity to translate visual design specifications and requirements into a fully functional UI for our web applications.

As a Front‑End Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Building powerful, yet easy‑to‑use next generation web applications to achieve consistent user experience across our multiple applications
• Contributing to a library of common components and development tooling
• Utilizing pixel‑perfect layout skills and hand coding of both simple and complex cross‑browser and cross‑platform solutions
• Contributing to all aspects of the project lifecycle: define, design, develop, and test

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Demonstrate familiarity with professional HTML, CSS, and Java Script
• Show experience with React, Angular, or a leading JavaScript framework
• Possess a clear understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Source Code Management Systems (we use git)
• Be familiar with software testing concepts including unit, functional, regression, continuous integration, and performance testing

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Akamai's Flex Base program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 102, CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

Akamai provides industry‑leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness;
Eligibility requirements apply.