Senior Front-end Developer (Montreal-based)

at  MagicPace

Position: Senior Front-end Developer
Company: Distance Client
Website: www.distance.so
Work Hours: Full-time, EST Hours
Location: Montreal
Company:
Distance is a powerful platform designed to help businesses enhance communication with their customers, streamline lead collection, and prioritize business opportunities. With an intuitive, user-friendly interface, Distance simplifies customer relationship management, making it easier for companies to focus on growth and achieving their revenue goals. Whether you’re a small business or a growing enterprise, Distance equips you with the tools needed to stay ahead in a competitive marketplace. Learn more at distance.so.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, ship and maintain Distance’s front-end application
• Develop, ship and maintain high quality interfaces for our marketing pages
• Work with our designers to transform ideas and design into modern, clean and readable code
• Implement robust engineering solutions with thoughtful designs across the full-stack
• Shepherd products from design and specification to live deployments
• Become a key stakeholder and advance multiple front-end products simultaneously
• Lead frontend governance, champion best practices, and serve as a key stakeholder in architectural design and review.
• Be an autonomous individual with a proactive attitude and receptiveness to feedback

REQUIREMENTS

• Must have 4+ years of experience building scalable front-end applications, component libraries, design systems, and tools using TypeScript and NodeJS
• Strong front-end development experience building, running, and debugging web applications using functional programming in NextJS, NodeJS
• Strong experience in debugging and optimizing NextJS performance issues whether in application code or in the JavaScript and TypeScript bundler
• Experience in developing native mobile apps using ReactNative / Expo + Tamagui. Familiar with React Tamstack Query
• Strong experience in building reliable, performant, maintainable, and testable code—with proper abstraction
• High attention to detail in translating high/low fidelity designs to implementation, user experience and accessibility, and understanding scope
• Experience with back-end APIs and integration work is considered a strong plus. The desire to learn more about this topic and work in this area is considered a must
• Experience building communication and telephony products is a plus (Twilio API, Email/SMTP, SMS, VoIP)t
• Proficient in English with good writing and communication skills

Background & Characteristics:

• Willingness to work hard and achieve very ambitious goals
• An ability to think through customer requirements to come up with high-impact ways of quickly solving their problems
• A passion for performance, user experience, and design
• A high bar for the quality of code and quality of user experience
• Familiarity with current trends and best practices in front-end architecture.

• Develop, ship and maintain Distance’s front-end application
• Develop, ship and maintain high quality interfaces for our marketing pages
• Work with our designers to transform ideas and design into modern, clean and readable code
• Implement robust engineering solutions with thoughtful designs across the full-stack
• Shepherd products from design and specification to live deployments
• Become a key stakeholder and advance multiple front-end products simultaneously
• Lead frontend governance, champion best practices, and serve as a key stakeholder in architectural design and review.
• Be an autonomous individual with a proactive attitude and receptiveness to feedbac