Front-End Developer

VERB is a digital marketing and technology agency with our head office located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our global clients offer the opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the world’s biggest destinations, resorts, and travel brands—and with our employee travel credit, it’s easy to experience them for yourself. We take a balanced approach to work/life and have fun at the office– or wherever we happen to be working. We are passionate about exceeding expectations and we thrive on jobs other agencies might find too big, or too difficult, or too fast.

Sounds good? Great, here's who we're looking for...

The Front-End Developer helps architect and implement user interfaces for our web applications using React, ensuring that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain.

What You Will Do...

• Participate in regular project stand-ups and sprint reviews.
• Identify and optimize applications for performance and scalability issues.
• Collaborate with development, creative, and product management teams to plan and deliver compelling user-facing products from start to finish.
• Create and enhance the structure and presentation of efficient, reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications.
• Use test-driven development to write well-tested code.
• Participate in code reviews led by senior team members and technical leadership.
• Update and maintain the functional and UI aspects of applications.
• Mentor other team members.
• Stay up to date on current trends and technologies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of JavaScript experience.
• Post-secondary education with a focus on IT Web Programming, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with React/React Native or comparable technologies (Angular, Vue, etc.).
• Experience with browser APIs and optimizing front-end performance.
• Experience with HTML/CSS, including concepts like layouts, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility.
• Proficient with code versioning (Git, SVN).
• Strong problem-solving skills and broad knowledge of current and upcoming web development techniques and principles.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Highly organized with the ability to function in a fast-paced business environment.

Benefits

Our benefits are anything but basic, with vacation time available on day one (not to mention an extra bonus week during the holidays), an annual travel credit (for non-work related travel), and free office snacks and drinks to keep you energized when you’re around.

In addition, we offer the following and are consistently looking for new ways to enhance the benefits we offer to our team:

• 100% premium share option for Group Health Insurance (medical, dental, vision), with a health spending account to top up your claims
• A wellness spending account
• Company matching RRSP program
• Top up for Parental/Pregnancy leave
• Remote and flexible work arrangements
• Transit and fitness discounts
• Recreational sports teams
• Learning and development opportunities with a multitude of resources
• Internal recognition programs