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Application Developer, IT

Req ID: 27377
Vacancy Type: Permanent 
Number of Positions: 1  
Closing Date: 11/24/2025

Job Summary

Seeking Front-End Developers to join our digital product development team. If you're passionate about technology, building digital products, and working within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll love working at the City of Mississauga.

 

About you

You have a strong product development background with experience in building front-end applications. You have mastered the skill of translating mock-ups / design specifications into pixel perfect and functional user interfaces. You develop  UI components that can be reused by other teams and applications. You understand what it takes to work within a full-stack team of technical professionals through the concept, development and delivery phases of digital products. You follow modern development practices and advocate for corporate standards around how we build product UI within the organization.

 

Required People Skills

  • Contribute to a culture of collaboration, learning, and improvement across the teams you interact with
  • Support the team through continuous improvement of processes, working through roadblocks and empowering teammates to do their best work in both Agile and Waterfall environments as the situation requires
  • Navigate and push the boundaries of our organization, and adapt your approach to work through the layer of corporate culture effectively

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direction of the Manager of Digital Services, you will be responsible for developing user interface for digital products and digital services. You will contribute to a multidisciplinary team to build custom web applications leveraging our microservices architecture and cloud infrastructure. You will be required to stay current on emerging front-end technologies and best practices to continuously improve the way we offer services to the residents. This role require you to participate at various capacities within multiple projects between teams that involve significant scope and complexity.

 

The successful candidate will:

  • Create VueJS front-end components and solutions based off of design concepts and/or wireframes
  • Code all JavaScript components of web-based applications
  • Code all CSS elements of web-based applications
  • Work with developers to integrate front-end components to server-side SOA/Microservices 
  • Suggest solutions to front-end developer elements
  • Determine effort required to implement new front-end solutions
  • Create WCAG Level AA compliant front-end solutions
  • Contribute to the creation of front-end development best practices and standards
  • Provide support for, enhance and/or maintain existing services and applications.
  • Determine and translate business and technical specifications to digital products and services.
  • Develop, test, communicate, train, and roll-out new digital web application / services.
  • Configure, customize, test and install new third-party software applications.
  • Comply with relevant City policies and procedures.

Skills and Qualifications

  • Post secondary degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
  • 3+ years experience creating JavaScript interactions for front-end systems and applications
  • 3+ years creating CSS from concepts or wireframes
  • 3+ years of hands-on user interface development experience
  • 3+ years experience using front-end development frameworks such as VueJS (VueJS preferred) or React, or AngularJS
  • 3+ years implementing design patterns in front-end frameworks
  • Extensive experience using and debugging JavaScript elements
  • Ability to work independently in a self-directed manner or in a small team
  • Experience working in Agile Methodologies such as scrum and kanban
  • Experience in Typescript is an asset
  • AWS Serverless Deployment or Docker Container deployment experience is an asset
  • Full stack development experience with .Net core is an asset
  • Municipal experience is an asset

 

Hourly Rate/Salary: $ 89,464.00 - $ 119,286.00
Hours of Work: 35
Work Location: Civic Centre
Department/Division/Section: CPS/Corporate Services Dept , CPS/IT Division , Enterprise Business Solutions
Non-Union/Union: Non Union



We thank all who apply, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. You can also check your application status in your candidate profile online.

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
The City of Mississauga is committed to creating a respectful and supportive workplace that fosters a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion which broadly reflects the communities and residents we serve. Throughout the employee life cycle, the City is working to include an EDI lens to attract, retain and support the growth of diverse talent.

Learn more about the City’s commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Accommodations
The City of Mississauga is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to removing barriers in our selection process for people with visible and invisible disabilities. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code, the City of Mississauga will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities.

If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please complete the following Accommodation Request Form and have it emailed to recruitment.accommodation@mississauga.ca citing the Job ID and Job Title. This will inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.

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