What You Will Work On

As a frontend developer at Cohesic, you will be involved in all aspects of product development ranging from requirements elicitation and analysis, to UI design, and more. You’ll be part of a team building groundbreaking technologies in the healthcare space – ones that will improve the lives of many people – on the Cohesic DI platform. As a team member, you’ll wear multiple hats as we work together on complex features and continuous improvement.

Our Team Values

At Cohesic, we value: grit, the ability to persevere despite setbacks; respect, for our coworkers, our customers, and ourselves; continuous learning, the mentality that any experience, good or bad, is an opportunity for growth; empowerment, enabling and encouraging autonomy and self-organization with the power to make change; and trust, to know that everyone is working together towards a common goal.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Design and develop new features on the Cohesic DI platform using TypeScript and React


• Contribute to, and maintain our shared component library and design system


• Participate in collaborative design sessions ranging from software architecture to UI and UX


• Write and maintain professional-quality code with a focus on patient safety and privacy


• Write and maintain test suites from unit tests up to end-to-end tests


• Write and maintain functional engineering documentation and guides


• Coordinate with quality assurance analysts on test processes, and defect correction


• Continually interact with team members and sometimes external partners via Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, and other tools


• Occasionally maintain backend code using Clojure and Scala

Required Background and Expertise for Success in This Role

• Authorization to work in Canada (or in country of residence if remote)


• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent work experience


• 3+ years of experience in frontend software development


• 3+ years of experience building web-based applications


• Solid understanding of reactive principles as they apply to frontend development


• Experience writing unit tests and integration tests


• Experience in working with web services (e.g. RESTful APIs, RPC, etc.)


• Experience with both dynamic and statically typed languages


• Experience working with git as a VCS


• Familiarity with agile methodologies and practices


• Fluency in English, written and spoken


• Ability to communicate clearly and confidently about technical requirements


• A positive attitude, willing to dive into what is needed for our mutual success

Preferred Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in frontend software development


• 5+ years of experience building web-based applications


• 2+ years of experience writing frontend code in TypeScript and React


• Experience evaluating and improving product usability


• Experience with real-time systems and/or WebSockets


• Experience working with documented requirements


• Experience in end-to-end testing with tools like Cypress or Nightwatch.js


• Experience writing custom tools to automate tasks


• Experience in *nix and Bash programming


• A keen eye for visual design and layout

Location

• Main office is in Calgary, AB, Canada


• Remote work possible; must be able to accommodate business hours in ±2 time zones from Mountain Time (i.e. UTC-05:00 to UTC-09:00)