Senior Frontend Developer

About TickSmith Corp

TickSmith, with its TickVault platform based on Hadoop technology, is a leader in Big Data applications for the capital markets and financial services. As an industry innovator TickSmith is more than a place to work, it's a place where your thoughts, ideas and creativity will be heard and leveraged while working on cutting edge products and technology. Based in Montreal, we come together daily to collaborate, strategize and execute on our mission.

We’re seeking a Senior Frontend developer with solid React/Angular/Vue.js skills for our Montreal’s office. You must have a strong desire to learn new technologies and a clear passion for web development. As part of our team of passionate and dedicated professionals working in an Agile environment, you will share your knowledge and be an important part of a collaborative effort to create the go-to solution for capital market data consumers. You will work on TickVault, our product that abstracts the complexities of big data technologies and allows financial institutions to unlock and get value from their data. You will help design a well crafted, highly modular product that is built using sustainable development practices and join our smart and diversified team that loves tackling problems and has fun working together.

What you’ll be doing

• Design frontend components using modern web technologies
• Analyze business requirements and contribute to improving user experience and to designing REST APIs
• Create test plans to validate data and automate UI testing
• Create new applications, as well as enhance and maintain existing applications
• Provide development effort estimates and mentor junior developers

Your skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or the equivalent experience
• 3-5+ years of experience as a developer (JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js)
• Experience delivering production-quality JavaScript applications iteratively
• Frontend JavaScript experience, using standard browser APIs, single-page applications and asynchronous programming, REST APIs.
• Experience with HTML/CSS, building UIs and automatic UI testing.
• Proficiency with modern web stack (React, Angular, Vue.js, ES6, HTML5), JS packaging (e.g. webpack, gulp)
• Experience using and designing REST APIs, and working with databases
• Ability to communicate (written and spoken) effectively and collaborate with customers and team
• Ability to share your knowledge to the team and proven leadership, build by respect and love to work
• Familiar with financial market data and/or trading systems - an asset
• Working in an Agile / DevOps environment - an asset
• Positive, can-do attitude and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Bilingual (French and English)

What you’ll get

• Competitive salary– We keep our ear to the market so we can reward your hard work and initiative
• Collaborative culture– You get to work with a great team of bright & dedicated individuals. You will get exposure to a variety of teams across the organization, no silos here
• Opportunity to make an impact– At this stage of the company everyone makes a huge impact on the company
• Opportunity to grow in your role and more- TickSmith's culture is to make sure that everyone can grow and experience as much as possible
• Flexible hours– Give and take is our way of life
• Great location– Located just out of downtown Montreal and easily accessible by public transport