About Showpass
At Showpass, we’re reigniting the joy of live experiences.
We’re Canada’s fastest-growing event ticketing and live experience platform, powering everything from concerts and festivals to comedy shows, attractions, nightlife, and community events.
But we’re not just a ticketing company.
We help event organizers grow their businesses, bring new creators into the live events space, and build technology that performs in real-world, high-pressure environments where reliability matters.
We’re proud to be recognized as:
- Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures (2024 & 2025)
- CanadianSME Fastest Growing Company (2024)
- Deloitte Technology Fast 50 (#20, 2024)
Title: Senior Front End Developer
Level: Senior Level II
Location: Calgary, AB (in-office role)
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior II Front-End Developer to help build and enhance user-facing features across our platform using React, Next.js, and TypeScript. You’ll work closely with product, design and the greater development team to deliver reusable, high-quality UI components, resolve bugs, and ensure a user-centered, well-tested front-end experience.
What you’ll do:
- Work with product, design and other developers to implement new features that enhance the services Showpass provides
- Develop and maintain the codebase using JavaScript, React, Next.js, TypeScript, and related frameworks and libraries
- Review and test code to ensure quality, reliability, and consistency
- Write and maintain unit tests
- Identify and resolve design, UI, and UX issues or inconsistencies
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to bring new features to life
- Debug and resolve production issues and field escalations
- Work with Engineering leadership to understand requirements, assess feasibility, and contribute to technical design discussions
- Promote best practices in front-end development, including accessibility, testing, and performance optimization
- Keep up to date with the latest changes in the industry’s standards
- Take a user-centered design and development approach
What you bring:
- Post-secondary education in a Computer/Engineering/Media/Design related field
- Minimum 7 years front end development experience is required
- Minimum 5 years experience working with the following technologies: React/Next.js, TypeScript. Must have strong modern React + Next.js and TypeScript fundamentals (hooks, server components/SSR/ISR, routing, data fetching)
- Experience building component libraries/design systems at scale (theming, tokens, a11y)
- Solid testing habits (unit + integration/E2E) and performance profiling
- Proven delivery in transactional, high-traffic UIs (checkout, payments, auth flows)
- Clear communication and ownership across the full lifecycle
- Must have experience working in enterprise ecommerce environments
- Must have experience working with design systems
- Experience creating prototypes, storyboards, user flows, etc. is an asset
- Experience building reusable components and utilizing web services
- Strong problem solving, testing and debugging skills
- Analytical thinker with the ability to problem solve in a fast-paced work environment
- Must have a clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design
- Must be passionate about all things UI/UX and other areas of development and innovation
- Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies
- Display confidence when collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders to regularly deliver design solutions for approval
- Be willing to learn from and share knowledge and experience with the rest of the team
- Ability to champion new ideas and develop creative approaches
- Must have an entrepreneurial mindset to take initiative and make things happen with minimal direction
Bonus Qualification:
- Python/Django exposure, legacy-to-modern migrations (AngularJS React), observability (Sentry/Datadog), a11y expertise, i18n
Why join Showpass
We’re not just another ticketing company - we’re building the next generation of event tech. In addition, you’ll get some amazing benefits:
- Competitive compensation and performance bonus
- Employee Stock Option Plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Daily breakfast & lunch from our in-house Chef
- Comprehensive benefits plan (incl. generous health & wellness spending account)
- Annual Learning & Development allowance & monthly “Curiosity Talks”
- Quarterly team bonding & annual hackathon
- Insider Pass event credits to experience the live events we power
- Dog-friendly office environment
Showpass is committed to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the workplace, and encourages applications from all qualified individuals. We thank all interested applicants; however, only qualified applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
