Since launching in 2019, CapIntel has been on a mission to provide magical financial moments for all: investors, wealth professionals, and our customers.
Our innovative proposal generation platform transforms how financial professionals compare, discuss, and present investment options, empowering clients to make informed decisions. We pride ourselves on revolutionizing an outdated process with a product that's adopted four times more than previous solutions. One executive called CapIntel "the most intuitive platform I’ve used in almost 20 years in financial services.”
As one of Canada's fastest-growing wealthtech companies, CapIntel is expanding at an unprecedented pace. Our relentless commitment to innovation drives us to build a dynamic team, strengthening our ability to impact the wealth industry landscape in 2024 and beyond.
About the role
As a Senior Frontend Developer, you will play a pivotal role implementing core functionalities of CapIntel’s products and services. You will work closely with a collaborative team of developers, designers, and product managers and will contribute to the scalability, efficiency, and robustness of our platform. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring that our user interface seamlessly integrates with backend services, meeting and exceeding user expectations. Your insights into UI best practices, design architecture, and scalable solutions will be crucial in propelling our platform to greater success and user engagement.
What you'll do
Technical Expertise and Development:
- Possess extensive professional experience as a full-stack or front-end developer, with a strong background in Javascript/Typescript web framework.
- Showcase expertise in front-end technologies, with extensive experience in developing dynamic and responsive web interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks and CSS pre-processors.
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code, ensuring the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
- Lead by example in technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and growth within the team.
Quality Assurance and Performance:
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability, employing techniques such as lazy loading, code splitting, and efficient state management.
- Ability to write comprehensive unit tests, experience with React Testing Library a plus
Collaboration and Communication:
- Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure solutions meet business needs and support QA processes, engaging in effective testing and validation of developed solutions.
- Work closely with backend developers to integrate APIs and ensure seamless, end-to-end functionality of the application.
- Continuously seek opportunities to improve processes, technologies, and methodologies, staying updated with modern technologies and best practices to enhance the development lifecycle.
Continuous Learning and Innovation:
- Stay abreast of the latest frontend technologies and frameworks, advocating for their adoption where they can improve the product's performance or development workflow.
- Commitment to maintaining high-quality standards through regular code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices in software development.
Qualifications
- Several years of professional experience as a full-stack or front-end developer.
- Several years of professional experience with a modern JavaScript/Typescript web framework;
- Experience working with MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express, ReactJS, Node.js)
- Experience working with large cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Knowledge of and practical experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience in writing comprehensive unit tests, ensuring the reliability and integrity of the application.
Bonus experience
- Experience with T3 Tech Stack (Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS);
- Experience working with a design system
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural and propose thorough iterative solutions.
We know that what matters most is a positive attitude, a hunger to learn, and the drive to create quality work and get results. While we value experience and specific kinds of knowledge, we also know that sometimes it’s a roundabout career journey. And if you’re not sure you meet the experience requirements for this position, but you know in your gut that you’ve got what it takes to bring this role to the next level, we’d like to hear from you!
We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience, so please let us know if you require any accommodations to support your application process by emailing [email protected].
What we can offer you
Remote first work: We’re a Canadian based, remote-first environment, with in-office collaboration zones and individual workspaces in Gatineau, QC or Halifax, NS and hubs of virtual employees in Southwestern Ontario. Successful candidates will be expected to adopt Eastern time core hours as part of their regular schedule, regardless of physical location.
Pay: We’re proud to offer a fair, competitive, and equitable process to determine pay that is based on your skills, knowledge, experience and internal equity. We will present our best offer so you don’t have to worry about playing the negotiation game.
Benefits: Our comprehensive benefit package is available from your first day and we offer generous flex credits to allow you to top up your coverage in whatever way is meaningful to you! You’ll be able to allocate your flex credits to any combination of our Group RSP, Healthcare Spending Account and/or Lifestyle Spending Account.
Time away from work: We love working at CapIntel, but we also love our lives outside of work. We offer competitive vacation days, life-care days, and company holidays and build in some flexibility too! Our vacation benefits increase along with your time at CapIntel, to thank and reward your continued commitment.
Professional growth: We thrive on building our career journeys by learning, mentoring and experiencing through our jobs, our colleagues and our leadership team. Not only do we encourage it, but we also enforce a culture that ensures we thrive, grow and evolve. All new hires will receive an onboarding success plan to help you progress during your first 90 days at CapIntel.
Belonging: We respect, appreciate and celebrate our individuality. And we know that our diverse perspectives further each other and our business along the path towards greatness. We find ways to socialize, build a sense of community (even if it is across the country!) and challenge each other to share creativity in our “safe-to-fail” environment. We’re committed to making sure you know you’re appreciated for exactly who you are
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Equity, diversity and accessibility
CapIntel believes that all dimensions of diversity are a strength, and that we have a role to play in actively reducing and eliminating systemic barriers to employment equity. We believe in equal employment opportunities regardless of race, ethnicity, language, genetic information, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family and marital status, neurodivergence, national origin, and age. We cultivate an inclusive workplace where people excel based on personal merit, qualification, experience, ability, and job performance.
