Filament Creative - Intermediate Developer - Toronto

What You'll get

Salary Expectation

$55 - $70,000/annual
Full Time

Benefits

Benefits
Choose your own custom setup
Autonomy
New MacBook
Dogs at the office
Friday paid lunch

Location

Toronto, Ontario
In-office primarily

What You'll Do (Job Description)

This role requires you to be part of a team of designers and developers creating beautiful, accessible, engaging and goal driven digital products and experiences. This position will focus on smooth motion and interactions for storytelling and user engagement for use in web browsers. Huge bonus for folks who have JavaScript framework experience.

You will develop new user-facing features, build reusable code and libraries for future use, and are flexible and multifaceted in what you bring to the table. You will optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability, collaborate with internal teams and client teams, and decipher technical documentation for APIs and integrate out of the box thinking with them.

What You Need to Be Successful (Skills)

You can clearly communicate solutions to team members and clients both verbally and in written documentation. Provide leading-edge technical solutions, rigorously educate yourself with the latest development techniques and best practices and implement new digital technologies or development techniques that help to meet client goals and business objectives.

Must Have

3+ years working as a Front-End developer
2+ years working with animation APIs
2+ years working with JS frameworks
Experience with GreenSock, D3.js, Graphs, animating with SVGs
Experience with HTML canvas and/or web-based motion tools
Experience estimating effort, and ability to guide design through prototype into production
Basic understanding of server-side pre-processing CoffeeScript and SASS
Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and Javascript frameworks.
Ability to meet deadlines, work hard, while self-advocating for your work-life balance

Nice to Have

Angular 2+
ReactJS/ReactNative
Vue.js
Experience with software development cycles
Experience with agency environments
HTML5/CSS/JavaScript
SASS
Sketch
Git Repos
SVG animation via JavaScript, CSS, and/or libraries
Web optimization of scripts and assets
Gulp/webpack or other task runner experience
Command line use for git and other workflows

Relevant Experiences

Has a desire for continued education and enjoys keeping up with tech industry trends and learning new technologies
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
Good understanding of SEO and accessibility principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them
Familiarity with the tools Sketch and InVision
Has the ability to collaborate effectively and communicate clearly, especially in dealing with non-technical team members and/or clients
Is a creative problem solver and out-of-the-box thinker
Is able to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced work environment
Examples of responsive web design
Solid understanding of cross-browser/platform issues and code solutions
Excellent time management, problem-solving, teamwork, and communication skills
Versed in agile development and best practices

About Our company

Filament Creative a digital strategy and design agency in Toronto that’s been moving the web forward for the past 16 years. We’re small and mighty by design, and we work on complex projects for clients like Fitbit, Scholastic, The Government of Ontario and Bell. We focus on complete experiences - what we call Fuel and Flow - from research, design strategy and content through to execution and development.

We teach, we speak, we give our time and money to charity, we’re insatiably curious, and we value a strong work ethic. We’d love to meet you.

How to apply

To apply, send a little bit about yourself, and a link to your portfolio to jobs@filamentlab.com with your resume, use 'Front-End Developer' as subject

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