Senior Front End Developer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
$78.85 to $91.3 CAD / hour · Temporary
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- $78.85 to $91.3 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Temporary
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- Posting language
- English
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Original job description
We are looking for a Senior Front End Developer to join a collaborative design systems team supporting enterprise web applications in Ontario. This long-term contract position focuses on building scalable, accessible React components that help create a consistent user experience across a broad product portfolio. The successful candidate will work closely with designers, researchers, product leaders, and accessibility specialists to deliver high-quality front-end solutions that balance usability, performance, and maintainability.
Responsibilities:
• Build, enhance, and support reusable React components that strengthen consistency across multiple web products.
• Translate design concepts into production-ready interfaces while maintaining close alignment with established UX standards.
• Embed accessibility best practices into front-end development to help ensure components meet recognized compliance expectations.
• Work with cross-functional partners to define needs, clarify priorities, and deliver solutions within an evolving development environment.
• Improve component libraries through thoughtful documentation, clean code structure, and patterns that encourage efficient adoption by product teams.
• Take part in peer reviews and contribute to development standards that promote quality, reliability, and maintainable code.
• Apply insights from user research and product feedback to refine component behaviour and overall usability.
• Coordinate effectively with globally distributed colleagues and adjust working style as needed to support collaboration across time zones. • Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining React-based design systems in a software development environment.
• Strong understanding of web accessibility principles and hands-on experience implementing inclusive front-end solutions.
• Advanced proficiency with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern client-side development practices.
• Background developing enterprise-level software or other complex, large-scale web applications.
• Familiarity with Git-based version control and structured development workflows.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to solve problems and collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Experience with tools such as Figma and Jira, with additional exposure to infrastructure, CAD, or 3D-related environments considered an asset.
Responsibilities:
• Build, enhance, and support reusable React components that strengthen consistency across multiple web products.
• Translate design concepts into production-ready interfaces while maintaining close alignment with established UX standards.
• Embed accessibility best practices into front-end development to help ensure components meet recognized compliance expectations.
• Work with cross-functional partners to define needs, clarify priorities, and deliver solutions within an evolving development environment.
• Improve component libraries through thoughtful documentation, clean code structure, and patterns that encourage efficient adoption by product teams.
• Take part in peer reviews and contribute to development standards that promote quality, reliability, and maintainable code.
• Apply insights from user research and product feedback to refine component behaviour and overall usability.
• Coordinate effectively with globally distributed colleagues and adjust working style as needed to support collaboration across time zones. • Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining React-based design systems in a software development environment.
• Strong understanding of web accessibility principles and hands-on experience implementing inclusive front-end solutions.
• Advanced proficiency with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern client-side development practices.
• Background developing enterprise-level software or other complex, large-scale web applications.
• Familiarity with Git-based version control and structured development workflows.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to solve problems and collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Experience with tools such as Figma and Jira, with additional exposure to infrastructure, CAD, or 3D-related environments considered an asset.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Senior Front End Developer at Robert Half will build, enhance and document reusable React components and turn design concepts into production-ready interfaces. The role also embeds accessibility practices, takes part in peer reviews and works with distributed cross-functional teams.
Requirements
Candidates need proven experience building React-based design systems, a strong grasp of web accessibility, advanced JavaScript, HTML and CSS skills, and enterprise-scale development background. Git, Figma, Jira and strong written and spoken English are also needed.
Skills
- React
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Git
- Figma
- Jira
- Web accessibility
- Design systems
- Component library development
- Client-side development
- Peer code review
- Technical documentation
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Enterprise software development
- Usability testing insights
- CAD
- 3D environments
- Infrastructure
Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Consulting
Keywords
- React
- Front End Developer
- Senior Front End Developer
- design systems
- React components
- accessibility
- WCAG
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Git
- Figma
- Jira
- component library
- UX
- enterprise web applications
- temporary contract
- Ontario
- CAD
- 3D
Seniority
Senior
Tools
- React
- Git
- Figma
- Jira
Languages
- English