Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.
Are you passionate about working on complex web and mobile applications and proficient in technologies such as Angular, React and React Native. As a member of our development team, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining innovative web and mobile applications that meet the needs of our clients and users. The candidate should be self-driven, highly motivated, innovative, and ready to deliver with our agile development teams. This is a great opportunity for a results-oriented software developer to analyze and build leading-edge solutions.
The Front-end Developer will report to the Manager, Digital Development.
Responsibilities:
- Handle software applications development, testing & implementation of projects.
- Develop scalable, high performance, and robust cloud-based web and mobile solutions.
- Write clean, modular, and well-documented code following best practices and coding standards.
- Develop user interfaces using Angular/ React/ React Native, ensuring responsiveness, accessibility, and optimal performance.
- Package and support deployment of DevOps agile releases.
- Develop, refine, and fine-tune applications.
- Analyzing and resolving technical and applications issues.
- Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve development constraints and deployment issues.
- Assist in the collection and analysis of requirements and user stories.
- Familiarity with mobile navigation libraries (e.g., React Navigation)
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and React Native core concepts (hooks, components, lifecycle).
- Familiarity with native development tools (Xcode, Android Studio) and build processes.
- Prepare reports and documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of software.
- Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from other developers, scrum master and product managers.
- Support the testing and launching efforts of new cloud-based products.
- Stay updated on emerging frontend technologies and industry trends, and advocate for their adoption when appropriate.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
- 4+ years of web application development experience.
- Experience with web application frameworks – Angular and React.
- Implement complex frontend logic using RxJS for reactive programming.
- Proficiency in HTML/ CSS, JavaScript.
- Utilize NgRx Store for state management to ensure scalable and maintainable code.
- Comfortable developing in an Agile environment.
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery/Deployment experience.
- Real-world experience with mission-critical enterprise REST / GraphQL APIs (either as consumer or producer).
- Good understanding of cross platform development using PAAS cloud systems.
- Good understanding of frontend builds tools such as Webpack, Babel, or Parcel.
- Comfortable analyzing network traffic using Fiddler/Postman/Wireshark etc.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and in rapidly changing environments.
- Demonstrates openness and willingness to adapt to new ways of doing things.
- Takes responsibility for the results and actively participates in the future direction of the organization.
- Demonstrates concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers.
- Focuses on the accomplishment of the team’s and unit’s work; sets challenging goals and meets or exceeds goals.
- Ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team in person.
- Approaches a problem by using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach.
Assets:
- Certifications in core programming languages, Cloud platforms, DevOps and Agile methodologies.
- Experience with native module development (Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, or Java).
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools and mobile deployment pipelines.
- Experience with testing frameworks.
- Experience with cloud services and backend integrations (Firebase, AWS, etc.).
- Understanding of security best practices in web and mobile applications.
Conditions of Employment:
Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest at the time any offer of employment is made and are responsible for obtaining any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations necessary for employment. Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.
Linguistic Requirements
Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.
Diversity and Inclusion
Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.
Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.
