Who you are

- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent practical experience

- 6+ years of web development experience, having delivered production applications as part of a team

- Strong command of React, including hooks, composition patterns, state management, routing, and server-side rendering

- Production experience with Next.js, including App Router, rendering strategies, and data fetching patterns

- Strong TypeScript skills - you use the type system to prevent defects, not to satisfy a linter

- Expert knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3, and fluency with utility-first CSS (Tailwind CSS or equivalent)

- Demonstrated experience building complex, stateful application interfaces - forms, workflows, dashboards - rather than primarily content or marketing sites

- Experience consuming REST APIs, including error handling, retry behaviour, and designing UI around asynchronous operations

- Experience building and maintaining component libraries or design systems, and working with design tokens and tools such as Storybook

- Experience implementing authentication in a frontend application against an identity provider using OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

- Experience building role- or permission-sensitive interfaces where what a user can see and do varies

- Experience with end-to-end testing (Playwright preferred; Cypress considered), and an understanding of what makes automated tests durable - avoiding hard-coded waits, brittle selectors, shared test state, and environment-specific assumptions

- Working knowledge of WCAG 2.x Level AA and practical accessible-component implementation

- Strong understanding of frontend performance - bundle size, rendering cost, and behaviour at realistic data volumes

- Comfortable working inside an existing codebase and an established set of engineering and design standards, rather than setting your own

- Strong understanding of version control, CI/CD, and peer review through merge requests

- Robust understanding of security and privacy by design principles

- Experience working with agile delivery methodologies, including refinement, planning, review, and retrospective

- Experience mentoring other developers
- Must be located in British Columbia, Canada

- Familiarity with C# and .NET - enough to read backend code, trace an issue across the stack, and have a productive conversation about an API contract

- Familiarity with fine-grained authorization models (OpenFGA, Zanzibar-style ReBAC)





- Experience building analytics or reporting interfaces over large datasets, including data visualization

- Experience with workflow-driven or long-running process UIs

- SaaS product delivery experience, particularly through a pilot-to-GA transition

- Experience with Canadian public-sector or education accessibility and data privacy requirements (AODA and provincial equivalents, PIPEDA, provincial FIPPA)

- Experience with distributed tracing or frontend observability and error monitoring

- PWA, service workers, and advanced performance optimization

- Experience in a consulting or client-facing delivery environment

- You are a product-minded engineer who asks what the user is actually trying to accomplish before deciding how to build it

- You have experience in customer-facing roles and communicate clearly, including when something is off track

- You treat a feature as incomplete until it is tested, accessible, documented, and supportable - finishing the code is the middle of the job, not the end

What the job involves

- As a Senior Frontend Developer, you will build the user-facing application for a modern operational SaaS platform for K-12 education
- The platform helps school divisions automate administrative processes, manage information across their organization, and surface operational insight - which means the interfaces you build are workflow-driven and data-dense: multi-step forms with real validation consequences, long-running processes whose state the UI has to reflect honestly, role-sensitive views that change shape depending on who is looking, and reporting surfaces backed by real analytical queries

- This is product engineering rather than marketing site work

- You will build in Next.Js, React, and TypeScript against

- NET REST APIs, using Shadcn/UI and Tailwind CSS in a component-driven model, and you will own Playwright end-to-end coverage for the flows you build

- Authorization is enforced through Keycloak and OpenFGA, so the frontend has to handle OIDC flows and render correctly against fine-grained,



policy-driven permissions in a multi-tenant product where an administrator in one school division must never see another's data

- You will work as part of a dedicated, cross-functional scrum team that operates as an embedded extension of the client's product and engineering organization
- The team includes business analysis and QA capability and owns assigned product services end-to-end - from refinement through development, testing, documentation, and release readiness

- You will work directly in the client's repositories and follow their established architecture, design system, and engineering standards
- The platform is moving from pilot deployments toward general availability, so the work is real-user-facing from the start

- Building and maintaining application features in Next.js, React, and TypeScript, including server-side rendering, routing, and state management decisions

- Developing reusable, accessible components in a component-driven model using Shadcn/UI and Tailwind CSS, extending the existing design system rather than working around it

- Integrating with .NET REST APIs, including handling loading, error, empty, and partial-failure states properly rather than assuming the happy path

- Building interfaces that accurately reflect asynchronous and long-running backend processes, including in-progress, retrying, and failed states

- Implementing authentication flows against Keycloak using OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, and rendering conditionally against OpenFGA-driven permissions

- Building data-dense reporting and analytics views over backend query results, with attention to performance at realistic data volumes

- Writing and maintaining Playwright end-to-end coverage for the flows you build, and contributing to the shared test suite

- Meeting WCAG 2.x Level AA, and treating accessibility as part of the build rather than a remediation pass

- Producing implementation plans for significant changes, and delivering work in small, reviewable merge requests

- Participating in code review, responding to CodeRabbit findings, and keeping GitLab CI/CD pipelines green

- Participating in refinement, planning, review, and retrospective as a member of a self-directed scrum team, and raising missing business or UX decisions early

- Maintaining frontend technical and component documentation as part of the definition of done, not after it

- Resolving defects and supporting post-release stabilization of recently delivered functionality

- Mentoring less experienced developers through code review and pairing

📌 Senior Front End Developer Associate (Vancouver)
🏢 Appnovation
📍 Vancouver