Front-End Web Developer

About The Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation is a globally recognised nonprofit organisation that supports a vibrant community of open source projects and contributors. With a commitment to vendor neutrality and transparency, we provide a collaborative environment for innovation across industries including cloud, edge, AI, and developer tooling. Our team is remote-first, collaborative, and passionate about open source.

Position Summary

The Eclipse Foundation is seeking a Front-End Web Developer to join our Software Development team and help build and maintain the web platforms, reusable components, and tools that support the Eclipse Foundation and its communities. This is an existing role on the team.

You will work on a range of public-facing websites and web applications, as well as shared front-end infrastructure used across our web properties. This includes developing reusable components, integrating with REST APIs, maintaining our component library, improving existing websites and applications, and helping establish consistent front-end development practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable front-end components and libraries used across Eclipse Foundation websites and applications.
• Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of our front-end design system and component library.
• Develop responsive, accessible, and standards-compliant user interfaces.
• Build and maintain front-end applications and reusable components that integrate with REST APIs and work across different web platforms and frameworks.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable JavaScript and TypeScript code.
• Develop and maintain automated tests for front-end components and applications.
• Document components, development patterns, APIs, and technical decisions.
• Review code and contribute to shared development standards and best practices.
• Diagnose and resolve front-end defects, performance issues, and browser compatibility problems.
• Improve web accessibility, performance, search engine optimisation, and overall user experience.

Required Skills and Experience

• At least 2 years of professional web development experience.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern front-end development practices.
• Experience developing applications with React and TypeScript.
• Experience designing and developing reusable UI components.
• Experience integrating applications with REST APIs.
• Experience writing automated tests and testable front-end code.
• Understanding of responsive web design, modern browser standards, and web accessibility principles.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative workflows (GitHub / GitLab).

Assets / Good to Have

• Component development and documentation tools such as Storybook.
• Web Components and libraries such as Lit or Stencil.
• Bootstrap, Sass, static site generators (Hugo), Drupal/WordPress.
• Experience contributing to open source projects.

Benefits & Working Environment

• Salary Range: $65,000 to $85,000 CAD / €40,000 to €50,000 EUR
• Work Model: 100% Remote (Preference for Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium)
• Flexible working hours and Corporate Recharge days with right-to-disconnect policy.