Frontend Developer

Position: Front-end Developer

Company: Distance

Work Hours: Full-time, Remote, EST Hours

Location: Canada (Montreal)

Company:

Distance is a powerful platform designed to help businesses enhance communication with their customers, streamline lead collection, and prioritize business opportunities. Distance combines software, AI agents, and personalized support to serve as the supercharged back-office for businesses. With an intuitive, user-friendly interface, Distance simplifies customer relationship management, making it easier for companies to focus on growth and achieving their revenue goals. Learn more at distance.so.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, ship, and maintain Distance’s front-end application
• Develop, ship, and maintain high-quality interfaces for our marketing pages
• Work with our designers to transform ideas and design into modern, clean, and readable code
• Implement robust engineering solutions with thoughtful designs across the full-stack
• Shepherd products from design and specification to live deployments
• Become a key stakeholder and advance multiple front-end products simultaneously
• Lead frontend governance, champion best practices, and serve as a key stakeholder in architectural design and review.
• Be an autonomous individual with a proactive attitude and receptiveness to feedback

Requirements:

• Must have 4+ years of experience building scalable front-end applications, component libraries, design systems, and tools using TypeScript and NodeJS
• Strong front-end development experience building, running, and debugging web applications using functional programming in NextJS, NodeJS
• Strong experience in debugging and optimizing NextJS performance issues whether in application code or in the JavaScript and TypeScript bundler
• Experience with AI coding copilot or generator (v0, Cursor, Windsurf etc.) is a plus)
• Strong experience in building reliable, performant, maintainable, and testable code—with proper abstraction
• High attention to detail in translating high/low fidelity designs to implementation, user experience and accessibility, and understanding scope
• Experience with back-end APIs and integration work is considered a strong plus. The desire to learn more about this topic and work in this area is considered a must
• Experience building communication and telephony products is a plus (Twilio API, Email/SMTP, SMS, VoIP)
• Proficient in English with good writing and communication skills

Background & Characteristics:

• Willingness to work hard and achieve very ambitious goals
• An ability to think through customer requirements to come up with high-impact ways of quickly solving their problems
• A passion about performance, user experience and design
• A high bar for the quality of code and quality of user experience
• Familiarity with current trends and best practices in front-end architecture.

Industry

• Software Development

Employment Type

• Full-time