Frontend Web Engineer (JavaScript React/Redux), Part-time, Canada Remote

at  Radical IO Technology Inc

Hiya! We’re Radical I/O, a people-first enterprise software development consultancy and lab that develops technology with purpose. We work with cities and organizations to develop meaningful, data-driven solutions that provide people with easy access to information, when and where they need it.
We are helping our sister company hire for a part-time role. SimpliCity Digital is a Vancouver-based govtech startup that recently launched their SimpliCity SaaS platform with their first early adopter municipal customer, the District of North Vancouver. SimpliCity is the combination of a flexible API-first headless content management system (CMS), a content creation web console, an integration services layer, and a highly performant Canadian cloud-hosted website publishing and hosting platform on Microsoft Azure to support municipal digital transformation goals for improving online service delivery.

REQUIREMENTS

You’ll do well in this role if you have experience in:

• Frontend JavaScript web app and website development using ReactJS and vanilla JS.
• Crafting great UIs and interactions using HTML and CSS.
• Developing with accessibility and mobile web responsiveness in mind.
• Consuming data from JSON APIs.
• Form validations.
• Text localization.
• Search and auto-complete.
• Redux state management.
• Bonus/nice to have’s (but not required): Fullstack JavaScript web development with NodeJS, JSON APIs, SQL; Additional frontend skills in TypeScript and Angular; experience developing with headless content management systems (CMS) like contentful, strapi, etc or even traditional CMSes like Drupal.

Additionally, you:

• Have 3+ years of full-time software development experience, particularly with JavaScript, CSS, HTML.
• Possess a university degree in computer science, engineering or related field,- or - a combination of experience and relevant certificates/learning/courses.
• Build features early and fast to get feedback and uncover unknowns, and then iterate to get them closer to perfection.
• Write clean code, have written unit tests, and adhere to effective software design principles.
• Are a problem-solver, comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and love continuously learning.
• Enjoy helping your teammates and contributing to project successes.
• Communicate and collaborate well and often.
• Comfortable working with a high level of independence, quality, and professionalism
• Prefer a fast-paced, ever-changing startup environment with varied and ambitious product development goals.
• Want to build community and/or make a difference in the world.
• Currently live in Canada and are authorized to work full-time in Canada for any employer, including engineers who are in Canada on valid working holiday visas and post-graduate work permits.

We are actively working towards changing the gender imbalance in the tech industry, and we highly encourage teammates whose identities are under-represented in tech to apply. If you don’t match 100% of the job requirements, but have awesome life-skills, are passionate about what you do and eager to learn, we also want to hear from you.

GROWTH & CULTURE

Over time as we grow and based on your performance, you may have the opportunity to move up to a more senior and full-time role. If that is your goal, you may also have the opportunity to take part in meetups/panels/presentations, along with writing internal and external reports, whitepapers, and relevant blog posts.
We work in a collaborative, flexible, and inclusive environment, so while we are looking for someone with good experience and opinions, we also appreciate someone who knows how to gently and persuasively win over consensus and buy-in from our team members, our leadership team, and our customers. You are also comfortable working with a high level of independence, quality, and professionalism.
We particularly love working with people who are purpose/value-driven, and who are accepting, open-minded, communicative, and down-to-earth. SimpliCity is woman-led by Founder & CEO Briana Sim; therefore, inclusive and flexible hiring processes and working conditions are important to us. We hope they are important to you too!
We look beyond cookie-cutter requirements and instead focus on your potential. We hire skilled teammates who are hungry to learn and grow, and who really care about the quality of work they produce. We want you to be proud of working on our team, and we want to feel privileged to know you.

You’ll do well in this role if you have experience in:

• Frontend JavaScript web app and website development using ReactJS and vanilla JS.
• Crafting great UIs and interactions using HTML and CSS.
• Developing with accessibility and mobile web responsiveness in mind.
• Consuming data from JSON APIs.
• Form validations.
• Text localization.
• Search and auto-complete.
• Redux state management.
• Bonus/nice to have’s (but not required): Fullstack JavaScript web development with NodeJS, JSON APIs, SQL; Additional frontend skills in TypeScript and Angular; experience developing with headless content management systems (CMS) like contentful, strapi, etc or even traditional CMSes like Drupal

Benefits for our part-time roles include:

• 3 or 4 day work week from Mon-Thurs, for a total of 20 to 24 hours.
• Equivalent of 2 weeks paid time off (as a percentage released to each paycheque).
• Fully remote working from your own home, from anywhere in Canada

Benefits for our full-time roles include (as FYI if you move to full-time in future):

• 4 day work week from Mon-Thurs, 8 effort hours/day, for a total of 32 hours.
• Excellent time off policy (3 weeks paid vacation + paid 4-5 day December holiday closure + 6 days paid sick days + 3 days paid personal time + 3 days paid volunteering time).
• Health benefits program, after 3 months of employment.
• Fully remote working from your own home, from anywhere in Canada.
• Future employee stock offer program (ESOP) participation once in place over the next year or so