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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Hybrid
We are seeking a proactive, highly motivated React to build engaging, interactive, and community-driven experiences across The Weather Network (TWN) and MétéoMédia (MM) Mobile Apps (iOS & Android via webviews) and Digital platforms (Desktop and Mobile Web).
As a driven self-starter, you will work closely with Product Managers who bring the requirements and product vision, and you will partner directly with a Tech Lead to learn the ins and outs of our infrastructure, technical requirements, and architecture. You will operate with a flexible mindset—experimenting with new technologies and UX approaches in some cases, and engineering robust, scalable solutions for production in others.
Whether evaluating third-party libraries, integrating SaaS platforms, or building custom code, you will help design and execute solutions for live chat modules, logged-in/premium user experiences, and interactive community elements (comments, likes, shares, stories). Your work will directly transform our mobile and digital applications into a highly interactive, community-driven ecosystem.
Technical Solution Architecture & Prototyping: Partner with Product Managers and your Tech Lead to turn functional requirements into smart technical solutions. Evaluate whether to leverage third-party libraries, integrate SaaS solutions, or build custom features depending on project needs.
Experimentation & Production Building: Work comfortably across the entire development spectrum — rapidly prototyping and testing experimental technologies/UX approaches in some scenarios, while building clean, maintainable, production-ready code for high-traffic environments in others.
Tech Lead & Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with a Tech Lead to master our technical architecture and infrastructure guidelines.
React Development: Conceptualize, design, develop, and implement high-quality, scalable features for web platforms using React and React.
Community Building: Build and integrate real-time social functionalities across mobile and web platforms, including comment threads, like/share actions, user stories, and live chat modules.
User Journeys: Develop and optimize logged-in and premium user experiences across mobile app and digital touchpoints, ensuring seamless state management and personalized interfaces.
Performance & Mobile Optimization: Maintain UI/UX quality, ensuring top-tier responsiveness, accessibility, battery efficiency, and performance across mobile devices and web platforms. Continually optimize code for smooth animations and low latency.
Testing & Continuous Delivery: Build solutions with a Test-Driven Development (TDD) mindset. Write unit tests, manage app release pipelines (CI/CD), and support QA testing when required.
Core Stack Focus (React): Proficiency and hands-on experience building, launching, and maintaining web platforms using React and React.
Pragmatic Problem-Solving & Technical Range: Proven ability to translate product requirements into sound technical solutions. Comfortable working in both experimental settings (rapid prototyping, evaluating third-party SDKs, trying new UX patterns) and structured production releases.
Proactive Self-Starter Mindset: Highly motivated and resourceful. Demonstrated ability to take initiative, ask the right questions, partner effectively with technical leaders, and own feature delivery end-to-end.
Experience: Minimum 3 to 4 years of related job experience specializing in front-end and mobile app development for high-traffic environments
Education: University degree in Computer Science, College diploma in Computer Programming, Information Technologies, or a related discipline.
Web & Mobile Technologies: Expert-level understanding of modern JavaScript / TypeScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3/SASS.
Interactive & Real-Time Features: Experience building real-time interactive mobile and web features (e.g., utilizing WebSockets or SaaS tools for live chat) and social engagement modules.
API & Third-Party Integration: Experience designing UI/mobile interactions that consume RESTful APIs, GraphQL, third-party SDKs, and SaaS services.
State Management: Solid experience with state management libraries in the React ecosystem (e.g., Redux, Context API, Zustand).
Responsive Design: Deep understanding of mobile-first design principles, and cross-device compatibility.
Balance Experimentation with Engineering Rigor: You enjoy testing new tech and UX concepts just as much as writing clean, battle-tested code for production environments.
Are a Collaborative Self-Starter: You take initiative and bring ideas to the table, but you also value learning from a Tech Lead and aligning with cross-functional partners.
Are a Pragmatic Solution Finder: You know when to leverage existing SaaS tools and open-source libraries versus when to build custom solutions from scratch.
Are Passionate About Mobile & Community Tech: You love mobile app ecosystems and have an intrinsic understanding of what drives digital community engagement and user retention.
Have an Eye for UI/UX: You possess a strong eye for design, basic knowledge of UI/UX principles, and familiarity with tools like Figma, Adobe Illustrator, or Photoshop.
Love Animation & Micro-interactions: Experience with mobile and web animation libraries (e.g., Framer Motion, GSAP) to build engaging "Stories" or polished micro-interactions.
Master Mobile Deployment & Agile Workflows: Proficient with Git (GitHub, Bitbucket), mobile build/deployment pipelines (Fastlane, App Store Connect, Google Play Console), and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
