Job Description

About Us
Amsted Canada is not only a leader in the manufacture of industrial components, we are a company where you are the driver of your own career. At Amsted, we know that our employees are at the heart of our world-class business and we value you and want you to excel with us. We spend time understanding where you want your career to go and help you get there by offering the support and resources that will allow you to grow with us. At Amsted, we also encourage a spirit of Innovation by allowing time and space to experiment, to think differently and to challenge the status quo. If this is the type of environment where you believe you will thrive, we encourage you to join us.

Operating under the Amsted Industries umbrella since 1962, today we are meeting the growing needs of a global market with over 80 facilities across six continents.

Amsted Canada has established a new Business Center in downtown Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. We are elevating our Global Technology teams in several areas including but not limited to Security, Development, Infrastructure, Emerging Technology, SAP, and Engineering. These teams are instrumental in providing support to all Amsted affiliate locations worldwide.

Position Details:
If you are a Front-End Developer who combines strong technical ability (e.g. Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS3) with pixel perfect attention to the UI/Presentation layer and stellar communication \xe2\x80\x93 this position offers an opportunity to:

• Play a Critical Role in delivering a world-class customer experience for a global audience of B2B users within our web-based transportation management solutions, in collaboration with Business Stakeholders, Data Scientists, UX/UI Designers, C#/.NET Developers, and IoT Engineers.
• Help Set the Standards by working across several highly-dynamic and evolving web-based software applications. You will create new UI applications and review existing code-bases, including front-end libraries.
• Create the Design System. You will understand and advocate for usability, recommend and effectively explain improvements in functionality and UI design elements that empower users and internal stakeholders to achieve their goals.

What we offer you:

• Autonomy to help drive the development of our growing office on Prince Edward Island in a role that will impact our growth and how we work across all of our functions of Amsted Rail and with our sister Amsted divisions
• Highly competitive compensation and benefits package that only begins with a strong base salary commensurate with skills and abilities, but includes annual incentive opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package
• Investment into your personal and professional development to ensure you remain at the top of your field and can reach your goals
• Being a part of team who cares about YOU \xe2\x80\x93 the professional and the person

Responsibilities:

• Work on rewarding projects within an agile, Azure DevOps process environment
• Collaborate with back-end developers, third-party contractors, and UX designers to improve usability, provide insight, expertise, and coding services
• Work directly with internal stakeholders to understand & improve the usability of their internal web-based IoT software applications
• Ensure high quality graphic standards and UI consistency, based on an agile & evolving Design System that you help create
• Write functional requirement documents and guides, as needed
• Help research and implement standard coding methodologies to improve workflows through the selection of evolving technologies and tools that will build expert-level interactive user experiences
• Develop and continually improve client-side architecture for web applications
• You must write well-designed, testable, efficient code; and use your in-depth knowledge of front-end testing tools and best-practices to optimize site performance and maximize site speed
• Identify project risks, raise concerns and provide alternatives to handling risks by working with management, UX, and development team members

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree or equivalent certifications in fields that align with the requirements of the position from accredited academic sources
• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Efficiency and experience with HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Angular
• Understanding & appreciation of layout aesthetics; possessing a deep understanding of design layout and behavior to translate advanced design prototypes into pixel-perfect, semantic markup and responsive web pages
• In-depth knowledge of front-end testing tools and best-practices to optimize site performance & speed
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• Understanding of the WCAG principles, Section 508
• Comfort with continuous integration (CI) tools and the command line
• Experience with package management (like npm), automated tooling and build systems like node.js, version control, etc
• Position is roughly 80% hands-on coding, and 20% architecture/design/leadership/etc

About You:

• You\xe2\x80\x99re passionate about technology
• You have a unique combination of skills that allow you to build software that is as elegant as it is powerful
• You are self-directed and capable of identifying next tasks without explicit direction
• You have a fearless and positive attitude towards work and life
• You love learning and solving problems
• You thrive working within a team of professionals
• You believe anything is possible through coding
• You approach challenges with a positive attitude
• You are a systems thinker

Compensation & Benefits

• Excellent base salary and targeted annual bonus structure
• Comprehensive employee benefits package including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, salary continuation, and a health spending account
• Company pension program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Fitness reimbursement credit
• Hybrid Workplace

This position is being filled in our Charlottetown office and is not available for remote work at this time.

Amsted Rail offers employees the stability of an established industry leader, along with the chance to learn, grow, advance and make a difference. As a private company and 100% employee-owned, we are all stakeholders in this business and all have a common goal to make this company not only a profitable company, but also a place to grow our careers. We strive to be a place that people are attracted to, and we go steps beyond to make sure our employees are happy on the job \xe2\x80\x93 and away from it.

Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT

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