Junior Frontend Developer (Remote)

Title: Junior Frontend Developer
Department: Engineering
Language: English
Location: Ontario – Remote

Who we are:

Agility PR Solutions provides today’s communicators with powerful and intuitive media outreach, monitoring, and measurement solutions. For almost twenty years, Agility has helped clients from across industries and continents discover relevant journalists and influencers, make meaningful connections with the media, amplify their stories, monitor media coverage and social conversations, and report on the impact of their public relations activities. Agility is one of the fastest growing companies in the PR tech space and it’s recognized by users on G2 for ease of use, quick implementation, and outstanding customer service.

We are a remote-first company, with colleagues based across vibrant cities in Canada, US, the UK, Philippines and India. We are intentional in helping our teams realize their full potential, and continue to invest in their learning and development, career progression, offering competitive pay and benefits, enabling leadership and work environment.

About the role:

We are looking for a bright professional to join our research and development team. The work we do is diverse, challenging and rewarding. The Junior Front-end Developer is responsible for the development of web applications using Angular as the frontend framework. The developer would be responsible for building features in our Media targeting and monitoring platform. Agility PR Solutions develops state of the art tools to allow public relations professionals to target media influencers and to monitor their businesses in the media.

The web applications you will build leverage robust RESTful services in Java in our big data backend which is built on technologies such as Hadoop and Solr, deployed to a high availability production environment.

Do you enjoy solving complex and interesting problems? Do you enjoy helping team members and sharing what you have learned about writing great software? Do you strive to learn new things every day? Do you want to work on a team that pulls together to get things done, takes great pride in the products they deliver, and celebrates successes?

What you’ll be doing:

• Work on new projects for features within existing products as well as new products.

• Reviewing and implementing designs from prototype to production while ensuring code maintainability and applying software engineering practices including unit testing source control, static code analysis and continuous integration

• Participate in maintaining production code over time by applying upgrades and bug fixes.

• Ensure code maintainability and best coding practices by participating in code reviews.

• Interact with stakeholders to understand problems and validate proposed solutions.

• Document work and report progress to the Project Manager/Scrum Master

What you need you to bring:

• Degree in computer science, or computer related field.

• Minimum 1 year relevant experience in the field with CSS, HTML, and Angular/Typescript (experience with React or similar frameworks will be considered)

• Hands on experience for a variety of platforms including web, smartphones, tablets, and various web browsers.

• Hands-on experience with Linux, Git and Jenkins

• Experience with at many of the following: code-review, continuous integration, and mocking.

• Detail-oriented, with strong analytical skills

• Experience with Java, node or PHP is an asset (but not required)

What we offer:

• Fully remote work environment

• Collaborative culture – and key tools enabling it

• Competitive compensation package

• Health, Dental & Vision benefits

• RRSP matching

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Career Development & Progression opportunities

• Paid Vacation & Personal Days; and Sick days

• Flex Fridays in Summer, Week off between Christmas and New Years’

• No internal Meetings Fridays

At Agility, we strive every day to build a more inclusive work environment and introduce tools that enable it. We strongly encourage applications from all people regardless of race, religion, gender, age, disability status or sexual orientation.

Even if you find yourself not checking all the boxes of our listed requirements but you are excited about this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you anyway. Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application for this role, and other potential role matches open now or in the future.

If, at any stage of the application process, you require accommodation owing to disability or a medical need, please let us know at careers@agilitypr.com for us to make appropriate arrangements.

Thank you for your time in reviewing this opportunity, and we hope to hear from you should you find this the right fit!