Senior Front-End Developer
About The Position
We are building a new in-house Digital Experience and CMS platform within RBC's Commerce organization, powered by Adobe Experience Manager Edge Delivery Services. This is a ground-floor opportunity: you'll help shape the engineering patterns, component library, and performance standards that the rest of the team will build on for years. EDS is a deliberate departure from heavyweight, framework-driven front ends. It rewards engineers who can express rich, interactive experiences in well-structured vanilla JavaScript, CSS, and HTML — code that loads instantly, degrades gracefully, and scores at the top of the Core Web Vitals scale. If you take pride in writing the least code necessary to do the job well, build modular blocks and plugins that other developers love to reuse, and turn thoughtful creative designs into pixel-accurate, accessible interfaces, this role is for you. You will work directly with our UX and creative teams, content authors, and platform engineers, and you'll have a meaningful voice in design reviews, architectural decisions, and the technical direction of the platform.
Requirements
- Deep, hands-on expertise in vanilla JavaScript (ES6+), CSS, and HTML, with a demonstrated ability to build complex, interactive experiences without relying on heavy frameworks.
- A proven track record of writing efficient, lightweight, modular, and performant front-end code, with a strong understanding of the browser rendering pipeline, Core Web Vitals, and front-end performance optimization.
- Solid command of software design patterns and front-end architecture, and the judgment to apply them appropriately.
- Working experience building and maintaining websites on a CMS platform (e.g., Adobe Experience Manager, or comparable enterprise CMS / DXP).
- Strong eye for UI design and implementation: the ability to turn creative designs into accessible, responsive, pixel-accurate interfaces and to give meaningful feedback on those designs.
- Experience with modern build tooling, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD.
- Understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG) and responsive, cross-device design.
Nice To Haves
- Direct experience with Adobe Experience Manager Edge Delivery Services (EDS) — blocks, plugins, document-based authoring, and the Universal Editor.
- Familiarity with edge / CDN delivery patterns, caching strategies, and performance budgeting.
- Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS) and headless/headful content delivery.
- Experience integrating analytics / data layer (e.g., Adobe Client Data Layer) and tag management.
- Experience in regulated industries (financial services) and with bilingual (EN/FR) digital experiences.
- Experience mentoring developers or setting front-end engineering standards on a team.
Responsibilities
- Design and build performant, modular, reusable front-end components as EDS blocks and plugins using vanilla JavaScript, modern CSS, and semantic HTML — without reaching for heavyweight frameworks.
- Champion performance as a feature: optimize for Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores, minimize payloads and render-blocking resources, and apply edge-delivery and caching patterns to keep experiences fast at scale.
- Apply established design patterns and sound engineering principles to keep the codebase clean, maintainable, well-documented, and easy for other developers to extend.
- Translate creative designs and prototypes (e.g., Figma) into accessible, responsive, pixel-accurate interfaces, and provide constructive technical feedback to designers early in the design process.
- Build and evolve a shared component/block library and authoring model that makes it simple and safe for content authors to assemble high-quality pages.
- Collaborate within an agile squad — assessing requirements, estimating, and delivering iteratively alongside designers, content strategists, BSAs, QA, and platform engineers.
- Ensure every experience meets accessibility (WCAG / AODA), responsive design, cross-browser, and bilingual (EN/FR) requirements.
- Contribute to code reviews, front-end standards, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines; mentor developers and help raise the front-end engineering bar across the team.
- Partner with platform and back-end engineers on the integration between EDS, the content management layer, and downstream services and APIs.
Benefits
- Flexible work/life balance options.
- Opportunities to do challenging work and take on progressively greater accountabilities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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