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Front End Engineer

ActiveState provides enterprise-grade open source language solutions, enabling DevSecOps teams to manage software supply chain security and improve developer productivity.

ActiveState

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 85k-135k USD

Canada only
ActiveState delivers Intelligent Remediation for vulnerability management, enabling DevSecOps teams to not only identify vulnerabilities in open source packages, but also to automatically prioritize, remediate, and deploy fixes into production without breaking changes, ensuring that applications are truly secured.

This position is open to full-time telecommuters anywhere in Canada or continental US.
As a Front-End Developer specializing in React, you will be responsible for building and maintaining user-facing features and applications. You will collaborate closely with our UI/UX designers, back-end engineers, and product managers to translate design concepts and product requirements into elegant and high-performing code. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of modern JavaScript, a passion for clean code, and a commitment to creating an outstanding user experience.

Who You Are: The Mindset

  • You're focused on our customers—Developers and DevOps Engineers. You understand that your role is to help solve their problems.
  • You're passionate about open source and want to learn more about the communities that build the software we all rely on.
  • You're a problem-solver. You enjoy finding the best approach to a challenge, thinking about customer issues, not just the technology itself.
  • You're a great communicator. You can explain technical topics clearly and concisely to help others understand what needs to be done.
  • You have good judgment. You're learning to prioritize tasks and understand which problems need immediate attention and which can wait.
  • You're a collaborator. You work well with others across different teams like Research, Product, and Engineering.
You're enthusiastic about our mission and want to help our platform become a global success.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain responsive, scalable, and high-performance user interfaces using React.js and its core principles.
  • Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use, ensuring a consistent and modular architecture.
  • Implement state management solutions for complex applications using technologies like Redux, Recoil, or the Context API.
  • Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code with a focus on code quality, organization, and maintainability.
  • Integrate front-end applications with back-end services and APIs, including RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
  • Work with front-end build tools and bundlers like Webpack or Vite to optimize application bundles and improve performance.
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application code for maximum speed and scalability across various devices and browsers.
  • Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to the team’s best practices and coding standards.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

  • Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in the React and broader front-end ecosystem.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • Develop and maintain responsive, scalable, and high-performance user interfaces using React.js and its core principles.
  • Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use, ensuring a consistent and modular architecture.
  • Implement state management solutions for complex applications using technologies like Redux, Recoil, or the Context API.
  • Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code with a focus on code quality, organization, and maintainability.
  • Integrate front-end applications with back-end services and APIs, including RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
  • Work with front-end build tools and bundlers like Webpack or Vite to optimize application bundles and improve performance.
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application code for maximum speed and scalability across various devices and browsers.
  • Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to the team’s best practices and coding standards.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
  • Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in the React and broader front-end ecosystem.

Preferred Qualifications (Bonus)
  • Experience with server-side rendering frameworks like Next.js or Gatsby.
  • Knowledge of TypeScript for building more robust and scalable applications.
  • Experience with CSS preprocessors like Sass or Less.
  • Familiarity with micro-frontend architectures.
  • Understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG).

Benefits

  • Working for a stable and growing company that offers the environment and personal growth potential of a start-up as well as the stability of a successful business with established revenue.
  • The chance to grow and grow with a team, as we expand our data portfolio and team.
  • The chance to collaborate with a smart, considerate, enthusiastic team of people.
  • The chance to work on a project that will change the work lives of developers around the world, including your own!
  • Competitive salary and bonus plan.
  • Comprehensive benefits package and health/wellness credit program.

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Salary: 85k-135k USD

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Canada +/- 0 hours

About ActiveState

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We are ActiveState, and we're passionate about empowering developers and enterprises to harness the power of open source languages securely and efficiently. For over two decades, we've been at the forefront of providing enterprise-grade programming language distributions, backed by robust commercial support, comprehensive security and license reviews, and indemnification. Our journey began in 1997 with a vision to simplify the complexities of open source for businesses, and today, we continue to innovate, helping organizations navigate the ever-evolving landscape of software development.

Our core mission is to enable DevOps, InfoSec, and Development teams to enhance their security posture while simultaneously boosting productivity and fostering innovation. We understand that unmanaged open source can expose organizations to significant software supply chain threats. That's why we've developed the ActiveState Platform, the only NIST SSDF compliant 'paved road' for DevSecOps teams. This platform offers universal observability into open source usage across an organization, intelligent vulnerability remediation capabilities, and a collaborative environment for frictionless DevSecOps. We strive to free organizations to create, maintain, and share software without limitations by delivering open source management at scale. We're obsessed with our customers' success and are committed to providing an integrated, end-to-end platform coupled with a dedicated team to help businesses achieve their goals with speed and confidence.

We believe in embracing new thinking, constantly questioning the status quo, and seeking out new ideas to achieve our ambitions. Taking ownership is a core value; we act on behalf of our company, our customers, and the bigger picture, ensuring tasks are done and done well. We encourage open communication, recognizing that every voice and idea contributes to our collective success. Our commitment extends to empowering others – our team, our community, and our customers – by maintaining high standards, offering ongoing support, and delivering continuous feedback. With a global reach, serving 97% of the Fortune 1000 and over two million developers, we are dedicated to making open source software easy and safe for enterprises worldwide.

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