Job description

Software Developer – Specialist Front End

Finesse – Ottawa, Canada

At the core of our products are the user interfaces, driving a rich Business Discovery platform whether in QlikView, or Qlik Sense. With the ability to produce highly intuitive data analytics, your role will be to enhance and deliver a world class front end web based client for the user.

Skills and Experience you will bring to Qlik:

  • A burning passion for creating beautiful Web UIs using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS; and a familiarity with the limitations of various browsers and devices; you care about repaints, reflows, framerates and hardware acceleration.
  • Laser focus on consistent delivery of elegant, efficient and reusable JavaScript code that is easy for others to maintain and use.
  • An obsession with code quality and can deep knowledge of the state-of-the-art techniques you are employing to get there; you have an opinion on Mocha and other JS test frameworks.
  • An intolerance for ugly web pages and bad UIs – you can show us examples of things you have fixed and/or would fix if given the opportunity.
  • Experience with and an opinion on things like Angular, Node, JQuery and Typescript.
  • An understanding and appreciation of the purpose and the practices of Agile; accompanied with the skills to deliver reliably and effectively on a sprint cadence; preferably across time zones.
  • Pride in your work — show us some things you are proud of (products, websites, code samples) – please include a link to such in your application.

You must be a highly motivated team player, reliable and dependable, dedicated not only to the craft and science of software development but also to the success of the company. We are a team of goal-oriented multi-taskers who approach problems with intellectual rigor and zest for software delivery. You should be the same.