Frontend Developer (12-month contract)

Ready for a challenge? Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe. About this role We are looking for a Mid-level Software Engineer (Frontend) to join our Logistics Areas and Fees team. If you are passionate about building scalable, delightful user interfaces and thrive in a fast-paced, high-scale environment, this role is for you. This role is open to candidates based in Toronto, Montreal, or Ottawa. As a Mid-level Frontend Engineer within our Logistics domain, you will play a key role in designing and operating the web applications that power delivery areas & fees related systems. You will own frontend systems end-to-end, from architectural patterns to component design, deployment, and performance monitoring, contributing to a seamless user experience across our platforms. Your mission is to deliver robust, performant, and accessible frontend services, working closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to ship features that our internal operators and the wider logistics platform rely on every day. You will champion modern frontend practices and help shape the future of web engineering within the organization. In short, you’ll combine deep frontend expertise with a strong engineering mindset to deliver world-class user experiences at scale Location: Ontario Remote Reporting to: Technology Manager These are some of the key components to the position: - Design, build, and operate scalable frontend applications using React and TypeScript - Develop and maintain reusable, responsive UI components - Optimize application performance to ensure a smooth, low-latency experience for users - Manage complex application state and data fetching patterns efficiently (e.g., React Query, Redux, or similar) - Integrate frontend applications with REST and GraphQL APIs, ensuring robust error handling and data consistency - Own frontend reliability: instrument with monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog RUM), set up alerting, and lead frontend-related incident response - Drive engineering excellence in CI/CD, automated testing, code review, and progressive rollouts - Collaborate with Product, Mobile, QE, and Data teams to ship high quality releases on a continuous delivery cadence - Participate in architectural decisions, RFCs, and technical design reviews across the Logistics domain - Investigate and resolve production issues using Datadog, distributed tracing, and log analysis - Actively participate in the Agile software development cycle within a cross functional team environment - Support and mentor team members, helping grow frontend engineering as a discipline What will you bring to the team? - 5+ years of experience building and operating production frontend applications at scale - Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript - Deep understanding of modern CSS (CSS Modules, Tailwind, or CSS-in-JS) and responsive design principles - Experience with frontend testing frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress or Playwright - Strong knowledge of Web APIs, browser internals, and performance optimization techniques - Experience with CI/CD pipelines for web applications and modern build tools (Vite, Webpack) - Production experience deploying to AWS and/or Azure, running services on Kubernetes (EKS) AI & Modern Engineering Capabilities - Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar is required - Experience making repositories agent-ready, maintaining clear READMEs, AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md files, structured code conventions, and reproducible local setups so AI c