Contract Staff Front End Engineer (Web Conference/Screen Sharing)

Team: IT

Location: Canada

Commitment: Contract

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Implement approved UX designs for screen, window, and tab sharing experiences and take features through testing and release.

• Build robust browser UI that meets high standards for accessibility, localization, maintainability, and automated testing.

• Collaborate with UX designers to identify and resolve scenarios that are not fully addressed by the original designs.

• Partner with QA to validate functionality, investigate issues, and ensure a reliable user experience across supported environments.

• Support testing with major web conferencing platforms and help validate real-world sharing workflows.

• Contribute code through public code review and follow established open-source development practices.

• Work effectively within a large, mature codebase, quickly understanding existing architecture and conventions.

• Communicate progress, technical considerations, and implementation decisions clearly in a distributed, asynchronous environment.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience building production user interfaces using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• Demonstrated ability to implement established designs accurately while applying sound judgment when designs do not account for specific user or technical scenarios.

• Experience becoming productive quickly in a large and mature codebase, particularly when working with software you did not originally develop.

• Strong experience writing and maintaining automated tests for user interfaces.

• Excellent asynchronous written communication skills and comfort collaborating with teammates across multiple time zones.

• Ability to work effectively in a public development environment involving open issue tracking and code review.

• Experience contributing to Firefox or another open-source browser is an asset.

• Familiarity with browser front-end architecture, including custom elements, XUL, Fluent localization, or related technologies, is a plus.

• Knowledge of WebRTC, getDisplayMedia, or browser-based media and screen-sharing technologies is advantageous.

• Experience with accessibility for modal dialogs, list navigation, and other interactive browser interfaces is valuable.

• Familiarity with browser testing frameworks such as browser-chrome or mochitest is a plus.

• Experience using AI tools effectively in front-end development is considered an advantage.

Benefits

• Remote work from Canada.

• Fixed-term contract opportunity focused on a high-impact browser user experience.

• Hiring range of $145,000–$170,800 CAD for Canada Tier 1 locations.

• Hiring range of $154,000–$168,000 USD for Canada Tier 2 locations, as listed in the original posting.

• Opportunity to contribute to open-source browser development and public code review.

• Collaboration with distributed engineering, UX, QA, and web conferencing specialists.

• Opportunity to work on widely used screen-sharing and media-capture experiences.

• Accessibility support and an inclusive working environment.