The Opportunity
Modern Tribe is looking for an experienced UI Developer with WordPress experience to join our team.
You will be responsible for crafting robust, beautiful, usable interfaces for the users of our products and our client’s projects. You will play an integral role in connecting and collaborating with strategy, design, and backend to creative a cohesive and organized final experience and enthusiastically own getting to the most optimal solution. You thrive working in a collaborative and engaging environment and love being part of teams and systems that actively seek your experience in helping us grow and improve.
If this sounds like an exciting opportunity to you, read on!
Responsibilities
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Collaborate
Collaborate with your team to deeply understand the needs of our users and clients and then plan, design, and build features that best serve those needs.
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Ownership
Take ownership of the work you do on projects from strategy to design to implementation to deployment and maintenance.
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Impact
Be an impactful contributor to your team, discipline, and company, participating in our culture and helping us improve and push our internal tools, libraries, workflows, and standards forward.
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Participate
Participate in keeping our internal tooling and systems current, share knowledge and collaborate with fellow developers across the company.
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Best Practices
Design and build features that are performant, accessible, and steeped in the best practices of modern frontend development standards and patterns.
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Teamwork
Ensure that the quality of our design implementation and user experience is the very best it can be (design and development work very closely together at Modern Tribe)
Modern Tribe is committed to a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. We foster an environment of collaboration, open engagement, fairness and respect regardless of differences in age, race, ability, national origin, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.
The technical
Specific skills and proficiencies
You will use your deep knowledge of React, HTML, CSS to solve both simple and complex challenges, both in and outside of the WordPress platform. When paired with your understanding of best practices in accessibility, performance, and architecture, you ultimately produce code and experiences that are scalable and delightful.
We know not everyone is an expert in everything. Your foundational knowledge is important, paired with the ability to learn and improve over time.
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
- Extensive knowledge of modern JavaScript standards and patterns
- Experience with React and/or React Native
- Proficiency at local environment setup for app development, docker
- Experience with REST APIs
- Experience with async operations at scale and modern practices to handle them
- Advanced experience with state management
- Solid understanding of various styling approaches for UI Development (CSS Modules, Styled Components etc)
- Unit, snapshot and integration testing
- Experience with WordPress
- GIT
Bonus Points
- Examples of plugins / code that you’ve released to the open source community
- Experience with GraphQL
- Native app development (android, ios)
Location
I get to work on interesting projects with kind, talented people. Very happy to be a part of this team!Nell Lindquist Team Lead
Location
Work from anywhere and join our distributed team working across the globe. If your timezone is outside of US business hours, but you work at least 3-4+ hours of overlap each day, let’s chat. You should be fluent in English and just need a computer and a strong wifi signal to support daily video chats with the Tribe.
Compensation
Pay range is commensurate with qualifications and experience between $50-$65/hour. This role is currently 15-20 hours a week.
Perks
We believe that distributed working is a way of life. We understand what it means to work remotely. We offer consistency in expectations, payment, and support. We believe in learning from each other and fostering personal growth. You can expect to learn a lot while working with us. Full time roles include a benefits package.
Who We Are
Modern Tribe, Inc. is a rapidly growing software & design company. We develop custom solutions for some of the world’s largest companies, government institutions and smaller growing organizations. We pride ourselves on our ability to bridge people and technology and to bring the passion and dedication of an entrepreneur to every project. Our team is composed of talented employees and freelancers around North & South America (and a smattering across the globe).
Join our team
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