UX Frontend Developer

Our client, a prominent leader in the Canadian media and broadcasting sector, is undergoing a major digital transformation. They are seeking a creative and highly skilled UX Frontend Developer to join their Enterprise Application Development team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in modernizing studio environments by replacing legacy broadcast technologies with cutting-edge, automated software solutions. You will bridge the gap between aesthetic design and functional engineering, ensuring that user-centric interfaces are both visually stunning and technically robust.

Advantages
Frontend Developer (UX Focus)
Job Description
Our client, a prominent leader in the Canadian media and broadcasting sector, is undergoing a major digital transformation. They are seeking a creative and highly skilled UX Frontend Developer to join their Enterprise Application Development team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in modernizing studio environments by replacing legacy broadcast technologies with cutting-edge, automated software solutions. You will bridge the gap between aesthetic design and functional engineering, ensuring that user-centric interfaces are both visually stunning and technically robust.

Advantages
Innovation-Driven Culture: Work on high-impact projects that redefine how media content is delivered.

Flexible Hybrid Model: Enjoy a balanced work-life harmony with only two days per week in-office.

Professional Growth: Collaborate with senior architects and developers in a growth-oriented environment that encourages exploration and new ideas.

Inclusive Environment: Join a team that deeply values diversity, equity, and accessibility in every product they build.

Responsibilities
Code Implementation: Translate high-fidelity UX/UI wireframes and conceptual mockups into pixel-perfect, interactive code using HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript paradigms.

App Development: Build and sustain sophisticated web applications utilizing React.js and TypeScript.

System Integration: Partner with Backend Engineers to integrate RESTful APIs and GraphQL, ensuring seamless data synchronization between server-side logic and the user interface.

User Advocacy: Participate in user research, persona definition, and usability testing to ensure products solve real-world problems.

Optimization & Accessibility: Enhance application performance for maximum speed and ensure strict adherence to WCAG accessibility standards.

Prototyping: Develop interactive prototypes to validate design concepts and simulate complex user workflows.

Collaboration: Act as the technical liaison between design teams and stakeholders to evaluate the feasibility of proposed features.

Qualifications
Experience: 3 to 5 years of professional experience in Frontend Development with a strong focus on User Experience.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Technical Stack: Deep proficiency in React.js, TypeScript, and server-side API interactions (REST/GraphQL).

Design Tools: Advanced knowledge of Figma or similar collaborative design platforms.

Backend Knowledge: Solid familiarity with Python and the Django framework.

DevOps & Agile: Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and Agile methodologies.

Soft Skills: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to lead technical discussions and propose innovative solutions.

Our client operates in Canada. The company takes all reasonable steps to limit the number of positions in Quebec that require knowledge of a language other than French, and only requires it when necessary and its existing bilingual employees are unable to perform these duties. Based on an assessment conducted by our client, it has been determined that this position requires candidates to be fluent in English (both spoken and written). In particular, this position will require the employee to interact with centralized internal departments (e.g., Operations / HR / Finance / Legal / Contracts / Sales) that support the organization in Canada and that do not speak French.

Summary
Location: Montreal or Toronto (Hybrid - 2 days/week on-site).

Duration: 12-month contract (with potential for extension).

Schedule: Full-time, Monday to Friday (40 hours/week).

Start Date: ASAP.

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.