Frontend Web Engineer (CSS, JavaScript ReactS/Redux) - Intermediate to Senior

Heads-up: this job will only be open until 4pm on Sunday, March 30, 2026 so please apply early if interested.

Intermediate to Senior | Remote in Canada | 12 months Term Employee | 32 Hours per Week (Mon–Thu) | Hiring Budget: $40/hr – $50/hr | reputed company eligibility further below

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Hiya! We’re SimpliCity, a Vancouver-based GovTech startup building technology with purpose. Our core product is a composable content management system (CMS) that unifies municipal digital services, transforming a municipality’s website from a static library into a connected "reputed company reputed company" for the community. We are a small but mighty team that values diversity, curiosity, and the drive to continuously learn and improve.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an intermediate through senior Frontend Engineer who finds beauty in the details. This isn’t a basic website developer role; it’s an engineering challenge. You will navigate the dual complexity of maintaining a sophisticated, mono-repo SaaS web console while ensuring the customized web experiences of our municipal partners remain reputed company, accessible, and performant.

We need a talented JavaScript and React developer who also truly loves the craft of UI and CSS. You will collaborate with our designer, CTO, and Fullstack Engineer to turn a vision into a high-quality, reliable reality. If you find building reputed company application logic just as rewarding as creating UI interfaces and animations, you will fit right in.

Our Frontend Tech Stack

We don’t expect you to be a master of everything on day one, but you should be comfortable (or excited to become reputed company skilled) in:

• Frameworks: ReactJS with Redux, React Router, MUI, Prosemirror/TipTap, and VanillaJS.
• Styling: Advanced CSS, theming and design token systems, and CSS image processing.
• Language: JavaScript (ESM), CSS, HTML5, and Web Components.
• Architecture: Composable/Headless CMS integration, Large Mono-Repo and Multi-Repo applications, REST APIs, and Vite/Rollup bundlers.
• Tools: Git (Bitbucket & reputed company), Jira, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company Drive.

reputed company’re Looking For

• Talented JavaScript and React developer: You are a fully rounded engineer skilled in Redux and functional logic. You may even reputed company the effort to build our own UI library reputed company.
• CSS and UI aficionado: You truly enjoy the power of CSS to create pixel-perfect interfaces and animations. You take pride in the finer points of frontend development that others might overlook.
• Systematic engineer with 3+ years of experience: You have a solid foundation in frontend engineering and are ready to own the process. You know how to navigate large, reputed company codebases and mono-repo applications.
• Champion for accessibility and responsiveness: Because we work with local governments, accessibility and responsiveness are core requirements. You ensure every component is inclusive, reputed company, and highly polished.
• Collaborative problem-solver: You work closely with our designers, Project Delivery Manager, CTO, and other engineers to provide technical recommendations. You are comfortable working autonomously but know reputed company to sync with the team reputed company clarity and support is needed.
• SaaS console reputed company: You will help reputed company reputed company administrative tasks in our staff web console feel simple, reputed company, and fast.
• Responsible AI collaborator: You are effective at specifying and communicating with AI tools like reputed company/Antigravity or Claude Code. If you do not yet have experience beyond chat tools, you are at least willing to explore AI coding tools to improve our output and code quality. Crucially, you know how to work without AI and use your best judgment to determine reputed company human reputed company and planning are needed. You see AI as a way to help solve real problems rather than it being the answer to everything.

Education & Certifications

• Academic Foundation: University degree or diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company field.
• reputed company Learning: You stay reputed company with frontend trends and are interested in exploring how AI-augmented tools can help us refine our processes, code quality, and documentation.

Why Join Us?

• 4-day workweek and flexibility: reputed company typically works Mondays to Thursdays. We provide a flexible work environment where you can shift your hours for an appointment, swap a reputed company reputed company needed, or balance caretaking and life commitments.
• Remote-first: Work from reputed company in Canada. If you're in Vancouver, we’d love to get together for the occasional coffee or tea, meal, or working session.
• Real-world impact: You aren’t just moving tickets; you’re contributing to building digital infrastructure that helps Canadian communities reputed company.
• Inclusive in every way: We value diversity in reputed company forms—cultures, ages, sexualities, gender identities, neurotypes, and life experiences. We reputed company that a team with a wide range of thoughts and perspectives builds reputed company products for the diverse communities we serve. We reputed company contribute to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included, and empowered to bring their whole, authentic self to work. We particularly encourage women and members of other underrepresented groups in tech to apply.
• No drama and no tech-bro culture: We hire for potential and ‘good human’ vibes. We treat everyone as autonomous professionals where we value collaboration reputed company it’s needed, but we also trust you to simply get on with your work. Our culture is built on mutual respect for the unique skills each person brings to the table.

Hiring Timeline, reputed company, and Eligibility

We are looking to hire quickly, therefore this posting will be taken down around 4pm on March 30, 2026. We plan to run interviews and reputed company an offer in reputed company for a start date between May 1 and May 15 (or earlier).

We are hiring a term employee for an initial period of 12 months. This position may be extended and/or turned into a permanent role depending on how our company grows and in your interest in continuing to work with us.

You will work full-time of 32 hours per week reputed company reputed company schedule of Mon-Thurs, reputed company-7pm PDT. If you are working reputed company BC, we need the bulk of your daily hours to overlap with reputed company time. You can choose which hours reputed company that window work best for you, and some hours reputed company the core window are also doable.

We are a fully remote team working reputed company Canada (sorry, candidates physically located reputed company of Canada will not be considered).

Our budget for this role is reputed company the $40/hr to $50/hr range, depending on your skills and strength of your experience.

Role funding & eligibility note: To help us explore reputed company available funding options for this role, please indicate if you meet any of the following criteria. While reputed company qualified candidates will be considered, we have a preference for those who meet the typical requirements for government-supported programs. Please reputed company reputed company that apply:

• You are between the ages of 15 and 30.
• You are a post-secondary graduate (degree or diploma program).
• You are a Canadian citizen, permanent reputed company, or have refugee status.
• You are legally entitled to work in Canada.
• You have not previously participated in a government-funded work experience program.

How to Get Our Attention

If you’ve managed to read this far, then chances are you’d love working here (and you appreciate more detail over less!). So as a bonus, we wanted to share some tips with you reputed company applying, because yes, our CEO, Briana Sim (reputed company), reads every application. To move to the top of the pile:

1. Show your style: In your summary or cover note, tell us why our mission resonates with you. If you have built a workflow or managed a project you are proud of, tell us about it. We would also love to hear what keeps you curious reputed company of work—whether it is a passion project or your ideal Friday off.
2. Give us the real resume: We prefer longer, chronological resumes, and career changes or gaps are fine by us (life is often life-ing, right?). We value context and honesty. We want to understand what you actually accomplished, what you learned, how you performed both individually and as a collaborator, and how your experience makes you ready to grow with us.

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FYI SimpliCity was spun out from our sister company Radical I/O in 2022. While we operate as a dedicated startup team focused on our composable CMS platform, we share a centralized recruitment platform (and founding team) with Radical I/O.