--- title: 'Senior Frontend Developer at Kensington' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-frontend-developer-kensington-toronto-8vxm97jpyqk1' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-16' --- # Senior Frontend Developer at Kensington - **Company:** Kensington - **Location:** Toronto, Canada - **Posted:** 2026-09-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kensingtontours/jobs/5238146007 ## Job description Kensington delivers the world’s most personal travel experiences. We bring to life each client’s desire to travel in a way that’s tailored specifically for them, in the company of local private guides who ensure that they enjoy the authentic best of their destination. The result is a unique journey rich in memories that last a lifetime! We achieve this because of our extraordinary people, passionate experts with deep knowledge of their destinations. They are what enables us to deliver remarkable experiences in over 120 countries worldwide, and across each of our businesses – Private Touring, Cruises, Villas, Yachts, Expeditions, Ultraluxe Land, Private Jets, and Air. To learn more about Kensington, visit [kensingtontours.com](http://kensingtontours.com/). We are hiring at two levels. We welcome applications from both Frontend Developers and Senior Frontend Developers. The level offered will be based on the depth of the candidate’s experience, technical expertise, scope of ownership, and ability to lead work independently. This is a hybrid position, currently requiring a minimum of two days per week onsite at our office located at 2 Queen St. E in Toronto, ON. ## OUR ORGANIZATION Kensington and TripArc, as part of the Range Group, deliver the world’s most personal travel experiences. We bring to life each client’s desire to travel in a way that is tailored specifically for them, in the company of local private guides who ensure they experience the authentic best of each destination. The result is a unique journey rich in memories that last a lifetime. We achieve this through extraordinary people with deep destination expertise across more than 120 countries and across our Tours, Cruises, Villas, Yachts, Jets, and Air brands. To learn more about Kensington, visit kensingtontours.com. To learn more about TripArc, visit triparc.com. ## THE ROLE Kensington and TripArc are expanding their development team to support projects and initiatives across kensingtontours.com, campaign landing pages, microsites, booking and enquiry flows, and related digital properties. You will work in a modern frontend stack that includes Next.js, React, Contentful, and Amplitude while helping complete a migration from a legacy Angular application and supporting a full brand redesign. At either level, you will create performant, accessible, responsive experiences for high-traffic, revenue-generating pages and use measurement to understand whether what you ship is working. The scope of ownership will be aligned to your experience: - Frontend Developer: You will build and maintain features within established patterns, implement experiments and analytics tracking, contribute to Contentful integrations and the design system, and grow your capability in conversion, performance, and technical discoverability through coaching and code review. - Senior Frontend Developer: You will own frontend conversion, experimentation, performance, and technical discoverability as a practice. You will set standards, make architectural decisions, partner directly with senior marketing and digital stakeholders, mentor developers, and translate commercial goals into measurable, maintainable technical solutions. ## CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Build high-quality frontend experiences - Design, build, and maintain features in our modern frontend application using Next.js and React, including Contentful integrations. - Translate high-fidelity Figma designs into performant, accessible, responsive, mobile-first experiences and raise questions where requirements are unclear. - Build reusable components against our design system and contribute to the component library as we move into a full rebrand. - Configure or architect content models and CMS structures so marketing partners can build and update pages without developer support. - Maintain our legacy Angular application during migration and help retire it cleanly. - Write maintainable code, participate in code review, estimate work honestly, identify risks early, and document solutions for technical and non-technical partners. Improve conversion and measurement - Implement and instrument experiment variants on high-value pages, including event tracking, funnel visibility, and analytics needed to assess results. - Partner with marketing and digital stakeholders to translate commercial hypotheses into testable changes with clear success criteria. - Use experiment results and analytics to report whether changes worked and identify where users drop out of key journeys. - For Senior candidates: own the experimentation practice, design tests, establish staged rollout and rollback guardrails, and ensure results are measured honestly. Protect performance and discoverability - Build experiences that meet expectations for Core Web Vitals, accessibility, application security, crawlability, and search discoverability. - Use appropriate rendering strategies and frontend patterns based on content volatility, speed, performance, and crawlability. - Support technical SEO through semantic structure, structured data, internal linking, redirects, URL changes, and migration safety. - For Senior candidates: set and defend performance budgets, own production performance improvements, and build the technical foundations for SEO, AEO, and GEO. Collaborate and lead at the appropriate level - Communicate clearly with engineering, design, content, SEO, marketing, and digital partners. - Bring forward options, trade-offs, risks, and evidence rather than presenting only one answer. - For Intermediate candidates: learn actively from code review and technical direction, ask questions early, and take increasing ownership of defined areas. - For Senior candidates: define frontend standards and architectural patterns, review code, mentor developers, and act as a senior technical voice with business stakeholders. ## MUST-HAVE For both levels - Professional experience building and supporting web applications in production environments with real user traffic. - Strong component-based development experience with React and hands-on experience with Next.js. - Solid frontend fundamentals, including component architecture, state management, routing, rendering lifecycle, and frontend performance. - Strong modern CSS skills and experience building responsive, mobile-first user interfaces. - Experience with Git/GitHub and working within a modern CI/CD pipeline. - Ability to translate designs into accessible, responsive, production-ready experiences and familiarity with Figma-based design handoffs. - Working knowledge of the web-platform fundamentals that affect commercial outcomes, including accessibility, SEO, Core Web Vitals, analytics, and application security. For Frontend Developer - 3-5 years of professional web development experience building and supporting production web applications. - Solid React development experience with hands-on experience using Next.js. For Senior Frontend Developer - 6+ years of professional frontend development experience, including significant work on high-traffic, revenue-generating websites or applications. - Deep expertise in React and Next.js, including component architecture, state management, routing, and performance optimization at scale. - Production experience with rendering strategies such as SSR, SSG, and ISR, and the ability to select the appropriate approach based on business and technical requirements. - Experience integrating headless CMS platforms, preferably Contentful, including designing scalable content models and schemas. ## NICE TO HAVE - A/B or multivariate testing tools such as Amplitude, Optimizely, VWO, or LaunchDarkly. - Analytics and tag implementation using Amplitude, GA4, Google Tag Manager, or equivalent tools. - Performance tooling such as Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest, and Chrome DevTools. - Technical SEO tooling such as Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, Semrush, or Botify. - Image and media optimization at scale, including modern formats, responsive delivery, CDN behaviour, and Cloudinary. - Personalization or content-variant delivery and an understanding of caching and indexing considerations. - Internationalization and Hreflang for multi-region sites. - Angular 9+, Tailwind CSS, GraphQL, or Azure DevOps. - Experience in travel, hospitality, luxury, or high-content-volume ecommerce. ## OUR TECH STACK - React, GraphQL, and Next.js for the modern application. - Angular, .NET Core, and C# for the legacy application. - Contentful and Cloudinary. - Amplitude for analytics and experimentation. - Azure DevOps. ## COMPENSATION We provide a competitive compensation package with a strong pay-for-performance rewards approach. Employees have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and compensation tied to business and individual performance. The expected compensation range for this position is: - Frontend Developer: $90,000 to $110,000 CAD. - Senior Frontend Developer: $110,000 to $125,000 CAD. The actual compensation may vary depending on local market conditions, geography, and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. #LI-Hybrid We are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If you require accommodation due to a disability at any stage of our hiring process, please advise us when completing your application. The Range Group may use artificial intelligence throughout the recruitment process to screen, assess or select applicants for this position. These tools assist our hiring team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by the hiring team. We thank all candidates for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. ## About Kensington ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Kensington delivers the world’s most personal, private-guided luxury travel experiences across more than 120 countries, designing tailor-made journeys for discerning clients. - **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held) - **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - **Founded**: Year not publicly available - **Founders**: Names not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Luxury Travel Arrangements / Custom Tour Operations - **Target customers**: B2C (high-net-worth individuals and luxury travelers seeking personalized, private-guided experiences) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To bring to life each client’s desire to travel in a way that’s tailored specifically for them, in the company of local private guides who ensure they enjoy the authentic best of their destination — creating a unique journey rich in memories that last a lifetime. ## Products & Services - **Private Guided Tours (Kensington Tours)**: Custom, private-guided itineraries in over 100 countries, crafted by destination experts with deep in-country knowledge. - **Kensington Cruises**: Curated cruise experiences with private guides and personalized shore excursions. - **Kensington Yachts**: Luxury yacht charters with bespoke itineraries. - **Kensington Villas**: High-end villa rentals with concierge-level service. - **Kensington Expeditions**: Adventure-focused private expeditions to remote destinations. - **Kensington Corporate**: Tailored corporate travel and incentive programs. - **Kensington Jets**: Private jet travel arrangements. - **Kensington Air**: Air travel booking and logistics services. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately held) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$27.0M** (latest available data) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed. The company operates under the TripArc umbrella (a travel technology and services group). - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount of **541 employees** (+22.3% year-over-year, adding 132 people) - LinkedIn followers: **32,980** (up 27.6% year-over-year) - Operates in **13 countries** (including Canada, US, UK, Ireland, Egypt, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Spain, New Zealand) - Named one of “The Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth” by National Geographic Adventure Magazine - Received “World’s Best Awards” from Travel + Leisure Magazine (2011, 2015) ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep local expertise**: Employs destination experts with genuine in-country knowledge, not generic travel agents. - **Private-guided model**: Every journey is private and guided by local experts — a premium differentiator vs. group tour operators. - **Global scale with personal touch**: Operates in 120+ countries while maintaining a highly personalized, one-client-at-a-time approach. - **24/7 on-trip support**: Unbeatable around-the-clock support for travelers in any time zone. - **Multi-brand portfolio**: Offers tours, cruises, yachts, villas, expeditions, corporate travel, and private jets — a comprehensive luxury travel ecosystem. ## Strategic Focus - **Technology & data-driven personalization**: Actively hiring for BI Developer, Senior BI Developer (Executive Analytics & Fabric Platform), Manager of Business Insights, and Analyst roles — signaling a push toward data-driven product and customer experience. - **Commercial expansion**: Hiring a VP of Travel Product & Commercial Strategy, Directors of Sales, and Cruise Experts — indicating growth in sales channels and product lines. - **Digital platform investment**: Senior Director of Website & Digital Platforms on the leadership team; hiring a Director of CX Optimization & Experimentation. - **Cybersecurity**: Hiring a Director of Cybersecurity, suggesting scaling of digital infrastructure. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & values**: Emphasizes five core values: *We Earn Trust*, *We Fail/Learn Fast*, *We Deal in Facts*, *We Are a Team*, and *We Take Ownership*. Highly collaborative, data-driven, and accountability-focused environment. - **Diversity & inclusion**: **67% of leadership positions held by women**; **35 nationalities** represented on the team. - **Flexibility**: Offers a **remote work program** and opportunities to work remotely when necessary (though primary HQ is Toronto office-based). - **Travel perks**: Top performers receive **familiarization trips**; shared love of exploration is a core part of the culture. - **Wellness & benefits**: Extended health coverage including employee assistance and wellness offerings; lunch-hour yoga classes; regular learning sessions. - **Compensation**: Industry-leading salaries, **RRSP matching program**, referral bonuses, and recognition rewards. - **Community impact**: Active volunteer program (Kensington Cares) — supports local charities and global causes. - **Growth & training**: Committed to career advancement with ongoing training and development opportunities. - **Team composition**: 1,430 total years of travel industry experience among staff; strong talent pipeline from companies like Travel Edge, Flight Centre, Navigatr, and G Adventures. ## Sources 1. [kensingtontours.com](https://www.kensingtontours.com/careers) 2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kensington-tours) 3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kensingtontours/jobs/5047598007) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/kensington-tours) 5. 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