Full Stack Developer – User Experience

Alberta Blue Cross® is an Alberta based organization dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experience and community leadership. We’re committed to providing the best health coverage to over 1.8 million members and take an active role in promoting wellness. We believe in what we do—and place trust in our employees to deliver our vision.

Working at Alberta Blue Cross® means having a career where you’ll be recognized for your contributions. We value diversity, encourage our team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance and provide opportunities for career growth.

OVERVIEW:

We have big plans and an even bigger vision at Alberta Blue Cross® to provide a greater digital experience that is accessible for all. We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to join us, temporarily (18 months), on our mission to create simple and enjoyable experiences through universal design. This position will have the expertise to see what others cannot—creating captive experiences like no one has seen before.

The ideal candidate for this position will be capable of progressive thought—grounded in security, privacy, performance, and scalability. You will have a passion for developing inventive, bold, clean, and fully functioning websites to support Alberta Blue Cross’s digital experience initiatives. 

In turn, you’ll be part of a high performing, ambitious and truly user obsessed team that works closely with stakeholders throughout the organization.

WHERE YOU WILL WORK:

You will have the flexibility to decide how and when you work. While you may be working from home most of the time, there will be plenty of opportunity to come into the office periodically for important meetings and other purposeful connections.

WHO YOU ARE:

• Passionate about delivering solutions that improve people’s experiences.

• Endlessly curious, challenge the status-quo and never stop asking questions.

• Self-driven and self-motivated learner with a commitment to explore emerging trends, tools, and technologies.

• Flexibility to adapt, thrive in ambiguity and bring clarity to any situation.

• Are a critical thinker with strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction

• Ability to work with internal stakeholders to understand detailed requirements.

• Committed to building accessible, performant and maintainable user experiences.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Develop, enhance and maintain customer-facing website experiences and Design System components for the public website ecosystem.

• Translate approved UX designs and Design System standards into reusable, accessible page patterns and components using semantic HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

• Develop reusable Edge Delivery Services blocks, including appropriate authoring fields, content models and approved variations.

• Build responsive, interactive web experiences that work reliably across browsers, devices and screen sizes.

• Work with back-end developers to integrate front-end experiences with APIs, forms and approved third-party services.

• Ensure implementations meet WCAG requirements, including keyboard accessibility and screen-reader usability.

• Optimize front-end performance, including Core Web Vitals, image delivery, asset loading and overall page speed.

• Implement SEO-friendly markup, metadata and structured data, along with required analytics, tagging and consent-management requirements.

• Test and validate work through local development, authoring, preview and production environments; contribute to unit, integration and end-to-end testing as appropriate.

• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve defects, performance issues and technical dependencies across the website stack.

• Use Git, code-review practices, automated checks and CI/CD workflows to support reliable releases and production validation.

• Maintain websites and related integrations to ensure they remain secure, current, functional and scalable.

• Work closely with designers, product managers and other developers to translate requirements into functional code.

• Write and maintain technical documentation for the codebase and development processes.

WHAT YOU WILL HAVE:

• Post-secondary degree or diploma in web development, computer science or a related field.

• Three to five years of relevant web-development experience, supported by a digital portfolio demonstrating your work.

• Strong hands-on experience developing customer-facing website experiences and Design System components using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and applicable front-end frameworks and libraries, such as Bootstrap, React, Angular or Vue.js.

• Experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is preferred; experience with Adobe Edge Delivery Services, reusable block development or content-authoring workflows is a strong asset.

• Experience working with CMS platforms and integrating websites with CRM platforms, forms or other third-party services.

• Experience translating designs into clean, reusable and semantic code within a collaborative team environment.

• Strong knowledge of accessible development practices and WCAG requirements.

• Working knowledge of cross-browser compatibility, web standards, web security practices and SEO fundamentals.

• Experience using Git, code-review practices, automated testing and CI/CD workflows.

• Experience improving web performance, including Core Web Vitals, and familiarity with analytics, tagging or consent-management tools is an asset.

This position will remain open until Tuesday, September 15, 2026.

Alberta Blue Cross® is an inclusive employer committed to a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We empower and are advocates for our team members by welcoming, respecting and valuing their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.

We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, high-energy team-focused environment. If you have the qualifications we are looking for, apply online at careers.ab.bluecross.ca

A criminal record check satisfactory to Alberta Blue Cross will be required as a condition of employment, following a conditional offer.