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SalaryTRADER Corporation is a trusted Canadian leader in online media, dealer and lender services. The company is comprised of AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync and Dealertrack Canada. AutoTrader.ca (AutoHebdo.net in Quebec) offers the largest inventory of new cars and used cars in Canada, receiving over 25 million monthly visits to its marketplace. With over 3,500 subscribers and counting, AutoSync is the largest and fastest growing dealer and OEM software provider in Canada. The platform's suite of connected automotive software solutions brings advertising, conversion and operational support together, synchronizing the entire retail process. AutoSync's diverse range of offerings includes: vAuto, EasyDeal, xtime, Motoinsight, Activix, TAdvantage and TRFFK. Dealertrack is Canada’s largest automotive financing portal, enhancing efficiency and profitability for all major segments of the automotive, marine, recreational vehicle, motorcycle and powersport retail industries. Over 6.5 million credit applications are submitted via the Dealertrack Canada portal each year. Visit tradercorporation.com to learn more..
6 month contract with possibility of extension
Senior Front End Engineer
Trader Corporation is the team behind Canada’s leading automotive marketplace, autoTRADER.ca. We are a technology driven company that creates world class solutions for our users and dealer customers. We are expanding our team and need a Senior Front End Engineer in our distributed engineering office.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Design and develop elegant and accessible front-end solutions which are end-to end: from technical analysis and data architecture, through to unit testing, development, and integration testing.
- Choose appropriate design patterns and identify anti-patterns, write solid unit-tests, participate in thorough code-reviews, and use your eye for clean code to support maintenance and extensibility.
- Perform root cause analysis on software defects, identify corrective action, and liaise with production support to resolve issues.
- Work with the rest of the team to evaluate the suitability of 3rd party packages and solutions.
- Maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment for applications.
Required Skills
- MVVM framework experience in Angular 5+, as well as hands-on experience with ASP.NET MVC
- Responsive Front-end layout/design, and implementation using JQuery and Bootstrap 4, CSS SASS/LESS
- Experience with front end testing frameworks like Jasmin and Jest along with a proficiency in Typescript
- Experience evaluating and implementing 3rd party libraries like those used for analytics, MVT testing, behavior monitoring, user feedback, while maintaining the best possible on-site performance
- Working experience on high-traffic websites, while leveraging techniques to enable performance and caching, security and monitoring, and accessibility (WCAG 2.0/2.1/2.2)
- Able to conceptualize a technical solution and relay it to other team members and stakeholders.
- Work with Trader’s architecture group to implement software against reference specification.
- Expert level experience in building unit, component, and integration tests and knowledge of how to use this as a system contract between other system end points.
- Experience building cloud-based apps and a strong familiarity in the scalability, performance optimization, and monitoring of those apps.
- Know how to work with source code management and delivery platforms like Github, Azure Dev Ops, and JIRA in a distributed team environment.
Required Experience
Can provide a portfolio of front-end work which demonstrates your recent experience building elegant solutions
University Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related subject.
5+ years of experience in the online software industry; strong knowledge of website design, functionality usability, and web-based application architectures.
Expert level experience with Microsoft platform web development.
What’s in it for you…
- We understand that there is life at work and life outside of work. Here are a few benefits we all benefit from that support us to be our creative best.
Fitness and wellness
- We provide discounts to nation-wide gyms, onsite gyms (when we’re in the office), an Employee and Family Assistance Program, as well as a virtual wellness program.
Benefits from Day 1
- Gym discounts
- Local in-office free gyms
- Employee and Family Assistance program
- Weekly virtual wellness events
- In addition to in-house training, we provide an annual lifestyle allowance of $1500 so you can grow your skills.
- Conferences & training budget
- Regular internal training programs
Financial planning
- Let us help you invest in your future with 3% matching towards your pension and multiple forms of income protection.
Competitive salary
- Annual bonus structure
- 3% CPP matching
