Who you are

- Strong ownership mindset, taking responsibility for frontend systems from design through long-term evolution

- Solid systems thinking, with the ability to reason about frontend architecture at scale

- Pragmatic approach to modernization, balancing ideal solutions with incremental, low-risk progress

- Strong collaboration skills and comfort working closely with both product and platform teams

- Long-term perspective on maintainability, extensibility, and developer experience

- 6+ years of professional frontend software engineering experience

- Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React

- Hands-on experience with Next.js or similar modern web frameworks

- Familiarity with Microfrontend architectures, monorepos, or shared frontend platforms

- Strong understanding of web performance, bundling, and optimization techniques

- Experience collaborating with backend and platform teams to define clean integration patterns

- Comfort operating in environments with high traffic, high visibility, and real user impact

- Comfortable working in a codebase with shared patterns (monorepos, shared UI libraries, or platform constraints) and collaborating across teams

- Excellent written and verbal communication; thrives in a remote, documentation-driven culture

- Highly cooperative: partners closely with product, design, and backend to deliver end-to-end features

- Experience working with or migrating large, complex, or legacy frontend codebases

- You’ve helped modernize frontend systems in production, not just greenfield projects





- You think about frontend architecture as a product for other engineers, not just a delivery mechanism

- You consider performance, accessibility, SEO, quality, and observability as first-class concerns

- You invest in testing and quality practices that make large-scale migrations safe and repeatable

- You enjoy untangling complexity and leaving systems better than you found them

- You care deeply about how technical decisions affect both developers and end users

What the job involves

- We’re hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to help build frontend features for our next generation of web product experiences

- Our current work involves high levels of collaboration with Machine Learning/AI and backend engineers to create AI/LLM-powered user experiences

- You’ll ship production-critical frontend code, define patterns and boundaries that other teams build on, and partner cross-functionally to make architectural change practical and durable

Benefits

- Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees

- 12 weeks paid parental leave

- Short-term/long-term disability plans

- 401k/RSP matching

- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning &
- Development programs

- Quarterly stipend for Wellness, Connectivity &

- Comfort

- Mental Health support & resources

- Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family

- Referral Bonuses

- Book Benefit

- Sabbaticals

- Company wide events

- Team engagement budgets
- Vacation &

- Personal Days

- Paid Holidays (+ winter break)

- Flexible Sick Time

- Volunteer Day
- Company-wide Diversity, Equity, &

- Inclusion programs

📌 Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Scribd
📍 Toronto