Senior Front End Engineer

Kablamo
Toronto
Salary range:
n/a
per year

Kablamo is a fast-growing cloud digital product development company. Founded in 2017 in Australia, the business has grown quickly over the last several years, including the expansion of the team to Canada in 2021. We are proud to have assembled an amazing list of customers, including some of the best known enterprise and government organizations, in Australia and Canada. We’re looking to further accelerate our growth in both markets, and we’re seeking a Sr. Front End Engineer to deliver new products to market.

Kablamo is proud to be an Advanced AWS Consulting partner, and we have recently been recognised as a global leader in designing and building cloud-based data and AI/ML solutions. At the 2021 AWS Global Public Sector conference, Kablamo won the award for “Most Innovative AI/ML Solution” for our work building bushfire prediction data platforms in Australia - we were selected from more than 1,800 AWS global partners.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Work cross functionally with QA, DevOps, BE, Product and Delivery teams to understand project requirements and translate them into engaging and visually appealing user interfaces.
  • Translate design wireframes and mockups into efficient and reusable React components
  • Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate frontend components with backend APIs and services.
  • Optimize and improve application performance, ensuring a seamless user experience across different devices and browsers.
  • Conduct thorough testing and debugging to identify and fix defects and compatibility issues.
  • Participate in code reviews and mentor junior-mid level engineers
  • Maintain detailed documentation of code and processes, ensuring alignment with company and industry standards.
  • Actively participate in showcases, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives and other Agile ceremonies.
  • Help drive continuous improvement in Kablamo’s process and culture while demonstrating and advocating our values.
  • Participate in technical interviews and hiring

Requirements:

  • 5+ years’ experience building responsive and scalable apps with JavaScript/Typescript
  • Production experience with React
    Mobile app development with React Native
  • Experience with technologies like React Hooks, Suspense, Webpack, Web Assembly, Workers, Jest, GraphQL etc.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug and optimize code for performance and scalability
  • Strong eye for design and a meticulous approach to creating good user experiences
  • Experience building and auditing web products with accessibility in mind
  • Experience with testing platforms, unit testing, and end to end testing
  • Agile practices including: Code versioning, CI/CD, Automated quality practices
  • Experience with cloud technologies (AWS preferred)
  • Experience with Git including merging, rebasing and pull-request branch strategy
  • Interpersonal skills to collaborate within a cross-functional team

Hiring Process:

  • 30-min intro chat with our TA team
  • 30-45 min take home assignment
  • 1-hr Technical interview
  • 1-hr Final/Cultural interview
    References
  • Offer!

Our Culture

We acknowledge a workplace that is diverse and inclusive, enables for greater innovation and produces benefits including improved performance, improved employee happiness and wellbeing, and superior outcomes for our customers. We attribute our success to all our unique and charismatic Kablamites. Through our fortnightly back to base and our debate Thunderdomes, we enable our Kablamites to provide feedback, share ideas, challenge the status quo and technically challenge each other constructively.

Kablamo is a proud equal opportunity employer. We make our hiring decisions solely based on your skills and experience, as well as the perspectives and value you can bring to our team.

Kablamo believes that diversity is vital to provide the best service to our clients and we are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Every effort to accommodate candidates for accessibility will be made upon request. Information received related to accommodations will be addressed confidentially.

Kablamo would like to thank all candidates for their interest however only qualified applicants will be shortlisted.