Basis Technologies

Lead large-scale UI projects, mentor team members, drive architectural improvements, and ensure alignment between business goals and technical implementation. | 8+ years experience, strong JavaScript and React skills, expertise in design systems and front-end tooling, familiarity with AI coding tools, and ability to optimize UI performance. | Job Description: • Drive large-scale technical projects that depend on multiple teams and systems. Establish and champion best practices and quality standards with the team. • Set a positive example and mentoring others on how to collaborate in pull requests, demos, and working relationships. Contribute to a culture of learning and high standards of technical achievement. • Drive significant architectural changes, sunset legacy systems, and improve UI performance and quality—for both internal engineers and Basis customers. • Take ownership of team deliverables and being accountable for driving projects from ideation through production. • Demonstrate a deep understanding of our application's business domain and stakeholder needs. Use your knowledge to proactively identify risks and blockers during planning discussions, architecture discussions, and RFCs. Ensure feasibility and alignment between business goals and technical implementation for large-scale projects. • Embody Basis' core principles while fostering a team culture of positivity, clarity, strong work ethic, and diversity of thought. Requirements: • Min of 8 years of professional software experience. • A solid understanding of the JavaScript language and React.js library, as well as the patterns common in UI development—such as state management, routing, web accessibility, form validation, and unit testing. • Familiarity and expertise with design systems, reusable components, and modern front-end tooling (NPM, Webpack/Vite, micro-frontends). Deep experience creating fast, predictable, and responsive interfaces. • Fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) as a core part of the development workflow — for code generation, debugging, exploration of unfamiliar codebases, and documentation — paired with strong judgment for evaluating, refining, and taking full ownership of AI-generated output. • An ability to diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks in your code. Benefits: • flexible work week • 401k/RRSP matching • mental health support • paid sabbaticals • generous parental leave • flexible work options