Frontend Web Developer

About Chimp

CHIMP is a purpose-driven, Vancouver-based organization with deep roots in the charitable and tech sectors. We believe that giving changes the world, and we know for sure that the more we give, the more we get back. Our community connects people who want to make the world better with charities that are taking action on causes they care about.

We believe that everyone has a charitable spirit, and everyone changes the world every day, whether or not they realize it.

A CHIMP Account gives you the ability to control how you give, empowering you to change the world on your terms.

Position

• Work closely with designers and other team members to create aesthetically pleasing, precision, responsive user interfaces, constructed from reusable UI components and styles
• Write, refactor, test and deploy front-end code that satisfies product requirements and improves the usability, quality and performance of our application
• Evaluate and evolve our front-end technologies and tools to ensure sustainable development
• Improve the design, performance and coverage of our automated UI test suite
• Constructively review team members’ code and address issues found in your own code
• Investigate product defects, identify and fix root causes, test and deploy fixes
• Contribute to ongoing improvement of team practices and procedures
• Participate in all Scrum practises: sprint planning, daily standups, estimation, backlog grooming, sprint demos and retrospectives
• Contribute to monitoring and operation of production, staging and test servers
• Share responsibility for maintenance and improvement of our development and production environments and related tools
• Help our Customer Success team investigate and solve problems for customers
• Other duties as assigned

Your qualification

• 3+ years professional experience as a front-end developer building web applications
• Proficient with HTML5, CSS3, Sass/SCSS, JavaScript, jQuery and HTML-based email
• Able to code in JavaScript without heavy reliance on frameworks (Angular, Backbone, etc.)
• Proficient at building responsive user interfaces and mobile web experiences
• Experience designing, building and using secure, RESTful web APIs
• Experience using Node.js and NPM
• Experience writing and maintaining automated UI tests using Nightwatch.js or a similar framework
• Proficient with Git/GitHub or another distributed source control system
• Demonstrated ability to investigate, learn and apply new technologies and tools
• Strong collaboration and communication skills and an openness to giving and receiving constructive feedback

Will be a plus

• Post-secondary education in computer science, interaction design or a similar discipline or successful completion of a recognized web development bootcamp
• Comfortable working in a continuous integration, continuous deployment environment
• Experience using Foundation or another responsive UI framework
• Experience building interfaces using React, Flux or Redux, and ES6
• Experience developing user experiences for iOS or Android
• Experience working with CoffeeScript, ERB templates, and/or Haml templates
• Experience working on a Scrum team