Staff Developer - Front End

As a Staff Developer, you can expect to be brought into initiatives at the strategy and discovery phases to ideate on what’s possible. You’ll experiment and drive new changes to existing system architectures. You’ll be a coach and mentor to our engineering team. You’ll set the operating rhythm to balance high efficiency with high quality, along with other Staff Developers and technical leaders.

Advantages
Compensation is determined by factors such as market data within Canada, technical skills, relevant experience, demonstrated impact, and internal pay equity.

Beyond salary, we invest in your growth, well-being, and long-term success through:
Variable compensation
4 weeks vacation, 5 personal days, and your birthday off (we want to celebrate with you!)
Comprehensive benefits from day one, plus an annual HSA/WSA spending account
RRSP matching to support your future
Annual learning and development budget, plus a book budget
Parental leave top-ups
& many more!!

Responsibilities
Your time will be divided between leading cross-functional technical projects, building and reviewing architectures on our squads (our stack is PHP, React, and TypeScript)
You’ll be setting and driving coding standards, technical processes, and tooling across engineering
You'll prioritize and work on multiple projects from start to finish, balancing quality, stability and project delivery.
Through code reviews and mentoring, you'll set a high-quality bar. As well, you’ll actively look for ways to improve the overall quality of our codebase.
You'll work across teams to promote an open, collaborative approach to architecture, technical patterns, and complex problem solving.

Qualifications
You’ve got 8+ years of SaaS application development experience under your belt, with a track record of leading technical initiatives to successful outcomes.
You have closely collaborated with other Staff on foundational engineering decisions and product development.
You’ve previously held a Staff Developer or higher title, and you’re ready to hit the ground running at that level.
You’re full-stack, hands-on, and coding daily. You're also able to zoom out and guide system-wide decisions.
You’ve architected complex systems, balancing performance, scale, and developer experience.
You’ve worked closely with Product, and UX/UI Designers to translate high-level goals into elegant, scalable interfaces.
You’ve got serious chops in software observability; you know how to build for it, teach it, and scale it across teams.
AI tooling doesn’t scare you. You’ve dabbled (or more than dabbled) in using AI to generate components, test code, or streamline code review.
You thrive in ambiguity and can operate at different levels, from system architecture down to pair programming with a junior dev.
You know how to delegate effectively, and you’re excellent at unblocking teams and keeping things moving.
You believe in iteration and evolution of architecture vs. re-architecting from scratch
Our Stack:
TypeScript, React, and Redux
Modern PHP (PSR) + Laravel
GCP Cloud SQL (MySQL), BigQuery, and Redis
GCP Cloud Tasks and PubSub

Summary
Compensation is determined by factors such as market data within Canada, technical skills, relevant experience, demonstrated impact, and internal pay equity.

Beyond salary, we invest in your growth, well-being, and long-term success through:
Variable compensation
4 weeks vacation, 5 personal days, and your birthday off (we want to celebrate with you!)
Comprehensive benefits from day one, plus an annual HSA/WSA spending account
RRSP matching to support your future
Annual learning and development budget, plus a book budget
Parental leave top-ups
& many more!!

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.

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