Senior Frontend Developer

The Company

SimplyAnalytics is a powerful spatial analytics and data visualization application used by thousands of business, marketing, and social science researchers in the United States and Canada. It comes pre-packaged with 200,000+ data variables and allows our users to create maps, charts, tabular reports, and crosstabs. We are passionate about creating outstanding software, and we believe in test driven development, continuous integration, and code review.

As a smaller company, each of our developers has an important role to play - at SimplyAnalytics, you are not just another cog in the wheel, you are an integral member of our team. You will be working on valuable features and making key decisions that impact the direction of the product and our users. In addition, we provide an excellent work-life balance, with 100% remote work, 20 personal days off, flexible work hours, a collaborative work environment, and quarterly “professional development days” to explore and share your interests with the rest of the team.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Frontend Developer to take on an important role in the development and maintenance of our cutting edge analytics and data visualization application. You'll be developing and maintaining production-quality in-house tools and customer-facing features within a large shared code base.

The ideal candidate has experience working on complex single-page applications, is a self-starter, has a high level of attention to detail, is comfortable asking questions, enjoys working with talented colleagues, and has an interest in analytics and data visualization.

This is a 100% remote position. Our employees can live and work anywhere in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, or South America. This is a full-time salaried position. When applying, please include a cover letter.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and test features, both in-house and customer-facing
• Write modern high-quality, clean, scalable, and maintainable code
• Contribute ideas for new features or improvements to existing features
• Assist colleagues through code-review, collaboration, and troubleshooting

Required:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience on large, structured code bases using vanilla JavaScript (this is not a React, Angular, Node.js, or full-stack position)
• Strong UI development skills (CSS & HTML)
• Open to learning new technologies
• Self-starter who gets things done
• Attention to detail

Bonus:

• Experience implementing data tables, charts, graphs, or other data visualizations
• Experience working on complex analytics, data visualization, or mapping applications
• D3.js experience
• MapLibre GL JS or Mapbox GL JS experience
• Experience with geospatial, demographic, business, marketing, or health data
• Experience with TypeScript
• Comfortable using Linux CLI