The Opportunity

Modern Tribe is looking for a talented WordPress Frontend Developer in North America to join our products team.

We’re currently working on high-profile WordPress implementations that range between conventional to seriously bleeding edge. We will want to see plugin code examples – public plugins are ideal. We want people that are able to develop code that can withstand high profile sites and intense loads. You should be comfortable working as part of a team – your code will have to integrate into an existing architecture. If tightly optimized code get’s you excited – you’re probably a good fit.

Do you have a dog eared copy of ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ beside your bed? Would you be excited to work on large scale WordPress projects that actually require your JavaScript skills? Would you be stoked to push the limits of where JavaScript and WordPress can play nicely together?

The opportunity calls for a mixed set of skills. We need someone with expert level CSS skills, impeccable WordPress experience, and solid JavaScript, PHP & MySQL skills. Experience building sites with extremely large loads is a plus. We like our stuff to run fast and smooth. We are looking for a unique snowflake – maybe it’s you?

Responsibilities

• ARCHITECT Work with design team to architect and document theme solutions using best practices
• ADAPT Integrate code into existing theme architecture
• COLLABORATE Coordinate with designers, back-end developers and other theme devs
• PERFORM Produce code solutions that load quickly and smoothly
• REVIEW Be a part of QA team and optimize / review other team members’ code

Personal Competencies

• Strong communication skills
• Experience working as part of a remote team
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented
• Strong organizational skills
• A methodical approach to all tasks
• Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
• Fluent English speaker

Knowledge & Experience

• Knowledge of WordPress theming best practices
• Experience with LESS or Sass
• Comfort in advanced JavaScript projects
• Mid level to advanced PHP Skills
• Basic LAMP / LEMPS skills
• GIT
• Proficiency at local environment development
• Experience with extending and customizing the WordPress media manager and other JavaScript in the WordPress admin
• Experience with API requests and parsing responses in JavaScript

Bonus Points

• Examples of plugins / code that you’ve released to the open source community
• Experience with es2015 and Babel
• Advanced WordPress debug skills
• Apple Mac dev environment
• Experience with JavaScript templating. We like: Angular, Backbone, Handlebars, React and Underscores templating. Basically we hope you will be pro at one of the many different templating options out there right now.