Frontend Engineer

Kijiji is the #1 online classifieds site in Canada and one of Canada’s top 10 most-visited digital sites. We reach nearly half of Canadian internet users monthly. We’re a leader in helping users find and trade goods and services in their communities, including Autos, Real Estate and Jobs. We’re proud of our engaged, results-oriented and collaborative team and were recently named one of the top Toronto Tech Employer Brands. 

Kijiji is part of Adevinta: a global online classifieds specialist and sustainability leader with 40+ products in 14 countries.

What you’ll do ​& Who you are

Our technology team develops, tests, and operates one of the largest e-commerce sites in the country. We are a community of adept software engineers focused on building large-scale web applications in an agile, multi-functional environment. We believe in a culture of mentorship, support, and mutual respect for all members of our team.

Are you driven, bold, and inventive? Do you like to have fun? We love that culture and strive to nurture it everyday.

As a Frontend Engineer and reporting to the Head of Engineering Experience, you'll work on a focused delivery team building new functionality and maintaining our enterprise level software environment.

You will have a hybrid working model, coming to our modern downtown Toronto office twice a week.

Responsibilities:

• Work with your team to deliver well crafted, high quality, well-tested and scalable code.
• Participate in the entire software lifecycle from design to implementation.
• Know the codebase and write clean code, collaborate, mentor, and learn together.
• Find a good balance between short-term delivery and long-term scalability goals.
• Ensure code quality and maintainability by tackling tech debt, conducting code reviews, initiating refactoring and improving build and test systems

What we are looking for:

• Deep understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript.
• 3+ years experience with React and NextJS, or similar Frontend frameworks.
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, and data fetching approaches in general.
• Experience with CSS.

Benefits

Life at Adevinta comes with its perks! Our Adevintans enjoy the following benefits:

• An attractive Base Salary 💸

• Participation in our Short Term Incentive plan (annual bonus) 🏆

• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere! Maybe not from the moon🌛well why not! just make sure you have internet connection! 🌍

• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care ❤️

• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow 🌱

On top of these, we also provide a range of locally relevant benefits. Wanna know more? Apply and ask our recruiters! ✨

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.