Senior Front End / Full Stack Engineer
About Common Wealth
Common Wealth is Canadas fastest-growing group retirement provider, offering an award-winning digital platform that helps Canadians plan, save, and build reliable retirement income. We are driven by our mission to help all Canadians achieve financial security in retirement. In 2024, we doubled our client base and now serve employers and members nationwide.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Front End Engineer to join Common Wealths engineering team. You will play a key role in building and scaling the technology that powers our retirement platform to help us drive toward a future where every Canadian can achieve financial security in retirement. Experience in fintech is a strong plus.
In this role, the focus will be on Front End (with React/TS) to develop robust, scalable back-end systems, if you are comfortable and experienced as Full Stack (with Java/Kotlin/PostgreSQL Back End), even better! We value engineers who can move fluidly across the stack and collaborate closely with frontend, product, and design teams.
What you will do:
Write, maintain and deliver code that deliver business objectives. You build product with a strong understanding of both customer and business needs. You take pride in writing high quality, readable, and maintainable code. Youll balance short-term speed with thoughtful investment in areas that are core to the platform.
Practice user-centric design. You will think critically about user experience and take into consideration accessibility and responsiveness.
Project delivery. Work within a talented cross-functional team, collaborating closely with product and design. You will help shape technical requirements, brainstorm solutions, break down deliverables into milestones, and drive timelines to completion.
Technical Ownership: Provide technical guidance through code reviews and mentorship. Youll help identify gaps, address issues proactively, and lead continuous improvements across the engineering team.
Who you are:
User focused: Youre passionate about solving our customers' problems together. You focus on delivering a smooth user experience that delights our users and proactively identify and propose solutions to UX problems.
Experienced front end developer: You have 6+ years experience in building complex frontend with React/TypeScript and SASS for CSS. You have worked with Redux, Material UI and you should be familiar with Accessibility and Responsive Design.
Deliver scalable code. You have gone through challenging problem with scalability and performance of the application and understand the fundamentals of JavaScript. You have experience in building and maintaining effective and reusable component libraries.
Skilled in end-to-end delivery: You have solid background in building maintainable and testable code, working with Cypress, and Storybook. Bonus points if you are have built and maintained CI/CD pipeline and familiar with AWS infrastructure supporting your front-end applications. You will be involved in all stages of development: planning, architecture, and execution.
Lead through your work and level up others: As a senior member of the team, you drive continuous improvement and take a leadership role in both the product and team development. You thrive on seeing others grow and are excited to share your knowledge with them.
Impact driven: Your work goes beyond the code you write. You seek to understand the business side and how the applications you build directly contribute to the success of the organization and excite our users.
Curious and self-directed learner: You thrive in ambiguity and are eager to stretch yourself and continuously expand your knowledge and skills. You are comfortable with being uncomfortable and welcome challenges that push your growth.
Thrive in collaboration: You believe that great products are built through teamwork. You work closely with product and design teams, keeping an open channel for continuous feedback and collaboration that makes the product better.
Resourceful and well-rounded: You understand that building a great product goes beyond writing code. Youre familiar with the tools and practices that keep production systems running smoothly in the real world. You think proactively about observability (e.g., Datadog/LogRocket), and you build systems that surface issues before they become problems.
Curious and self-directed learner: Youre comfortable navigating ambiguity and are motivated to explore, learn, and grow. You stay on top of emerging tools that enhance your technical foundation including technologies like AI coding agents and youre eager to apply them where they add real value.
Nice to have:
Experience working in the fintech industry
Backend experience in Java / Kotlin and PostgreSQL
Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and DevOps management
Our Tech Stack:
Frontend: TypeScript, React, Redux Saga, Vite, Cypress, Jest
Backend: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, Gradle, Cucumber, JUnit
Infrastructure on AWS: IaC with CDK, Docker, ECS, Fargate, RDS Aurora / PostgreSQL, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, Cognito, GuardDuty
Other Tools: Datadog, LaunchDarkly, LogRocket
Why work with us:
Common Wealth is a fast-growing company with a mission to change the lives of Canadians. Youll be joining a dynamic and flexible work environment where you have the autonomy to shape your role. Youll have ample opportunities to learn, grow, and advance within the organization while contributing to improving the Canadian retirement landscape.You will have the option to work fully remote or hybrid from our Toronto office.
Benefits include:
Competitive salary ($130,000.00 to $150,000.00 CAD)
Health and dental benefits
Health spending account
5% employer match into one of our award-winning group retirement plans
4 weeks of vacation
Learning & Development Budget
We are a respectful workplace committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce. We believe in fostering an inclusive work environment where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Senior Front End / Full Stack Engineer
About Common Wealth
Common Wealth is Canadas fastest-growing group retirement provider, offering an award-winning digital platform that helps Canadians plan, save, and build reliable retirement income. We are driven by our mission to help all Canadians achieve financial security in retirement. In 2024, we doubled our client base and now serve employers and members nationwide.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Front End Engineer to join Common Wealths engineering team. You will play a key role in building and scaling the technology that powers our retirement platform to help us drive toward a future where every Canadian can achieve financial security in retirement. Experience in fintech is a strong plus.
In this role, the focus will be on Front End (with React/TS) to develop robust, scalable back-end systems, if you are comfortable and experienced as Full Stack (with Java/Kotlin/PostgreSQL Back End), even better! We value engineers who can move fluidly across the stack and collaborate closely with frontend, product, and design teams.
What you will do:
Write, maintain and deliver code that deliver business objectives. You build product with a strong understanding of both customer and business needs. You take pride in writing high quality, readable, and maintainable code. Youll balance short-term speed with thoughtful investment in areas that are core to the platform.
Practice user-centric design. You will think critically about user experience and take into consideration accessibility and responsiveness.
Project delivery. Work within a talented cross-functional team, collaborating closely with product and design. You will help shape technical requirements, brainstorm solutions, break down deliverables into milestones, and drive timelines to completion.
Technical Ownership: Provide technical guidance through code reviews and mentorship. Youll help identify gaps, address issues proactively, and lead continuous improvements across the engineering team.
Who you are:
User focused: Youre passionate about solving our customers' problems together. You focus on delivering a smooth user experience that delights our users and proactively identify and propose solutions to UX problems.
Experienced front end developer: You have 6+ years experience in building complex frontend with React/TypeScript and SASS for CSS. You have worked with Redux, Material UI and you should be familiar with Accessibility and Responsive Design.
Deliver scalable code. You have gone through challenging problem with scalability and performance of the application and understand the fundamentals of JavaScript. You have experience in building and maintaining effective and reusable component libraries.
Skilled in end-to-end delivery: You have solid background in building maintainable and testable code, working with Cypress, and Storybook. Bonus points if you are have built and maintained CI/CD pipeline and familiar with AWS infrastructure supporting your front-end applications. You will be involved in all stages of development: planning, architecture, and execution.
Lead through your work and level up others: As a senior member of the team, you drive continuous improvement and take a leadership role in both the product and team development. You thrive on seeing others grow and are excited to share your knowledge with them.
Impact driven: Your work goes beyond the code you write. You seek to understand the business side and how the applications you build directly contribute to the success of the organization and excite our users.
Curious and self-directed learner: You thrive in ambiguity and are eager to stretch yourself and continuously expand your knowledge and skills. You are comfortable with being uncomfortable and welcome challenges that push your growth.
Thrive in collaboration: You believe that great products are built through teamwork. You work closely with product and design teams, keeping an open channel for continuous feedback and collaboration that makes the product better.
Resourceful and well-rounded: You understand that building a great product goes beyond writing code. Youre familiar with the tools and practices that keep production systems running smoothly in the real world. You think proactively about observability (e.g., Datadog/LogRocket), and you build systems that surface issues before they become problems.
Curious and self-directed learner: Youre comfortable navigating ambiguity and are motivated to explore, learn, and grow. You stay on top of emerging tools that enhance your technical foundation including technologies like AI coding agents and youre eager to apply them where they add real value.
Nice to have:
Experience working in the fintech industry
Backend experience in Java / Kotlin and PostgreSQL
Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and DevOps management
Our Tech Stack:
Frontend: TypeScript, React, Redux Saga, Vite, Cypress, Jest
Backend: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, Gradle, Cucumber, JUnit
Infrastructure on AWS: IaC with CDK, Docker, ECS, Fargate, RDS Aurora / PostgreSQL, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, Cognito, GuardDuty
Other Tools: Datadog, LaunchDarkly, LogRocket
Why work with us:
Common Wealth is a fast-growing company with a mission to change the lives of Canadians. Youll be joining a dynamic and flexible work environment where you have the autonomy to shape your role. Youll have ample opportunities to learn, grow, and advance within the organization while contributing to improving the Canadian retirement landscape.You will have the option to work fully remote or hybrid from our Toronto office.
Benefits include:
Competitive salary ($130,000.00 to $150,000.00 CAD)
Health and dental benefits
Health spending account
5% employer match into one of our award-winning group retirement plans
4 weeks of vacation
Learning & Development Budget
We are a respectful workplace committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce. We believe in fostering an inclusive work environment where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone. We look forward to hearing from you!