Position Summary – The Opal Health Informatics Group at the Research Institute of the MUHC is looking for a qualified front-end developer to join our development team. You will be responsible for building the ‘client-side’ of our award-winning Opal application (opalmedapps.com) which empowers patients with access to their health information.

You are a tech-savvy professional with experience in leveraging the latest digital technologies to optimize web applications for efficiency and scalability, while maintaining a visually appealing design to ensure a great user experience. Your excellent communication and interpersonal skills allows you to translate business requirements and patient needs into a functional and patient-first focused application.

General Duties:

• Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web applications
• Optimizing web applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Ensuring web design is optimized for mobile-based devices
• Develop features to ensure great user experience
• Ensuring user experience determines design choices
• Translate UI/UX design wireframes to actual code
• Assist to update or tweak mockups and prototypes as needed
• Write reusable code and libraries
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
• Help back-end developers with troubleshooting efforts
• Ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Participate in writing functional requirement documents and guides
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

Requirements:

• Diploma in Computer Science or equivalent Minimum 3 years experience as a Front-end developer
• Strong proficiency with HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS, CSS and jQuery
• Knowledge of Flutter and Dart
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Knowledge of graphic design applications and content management systems
• Understanding of layout aesthetics
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience with browser testing and debugging
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of healthcare IT system requirements are an asset

Working Conditions:

THIS IS NOT A HOSPITAL POSITION.
The Research Institute of the MUHC encourages equity in employment.
This job offer is conditional upon the obtainment of a valid work permit.
NOTE: The masculine gender has been used for brevity and includes the feminine gender.
We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.