Principal Software Engineer - ATS Experience

Nexaminds; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Remote work options

Flexible working hours

Benefits above the law

Mentorship and learning opportunities

Job summary

Nexaminds is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive visual modernization for an existing application with a Vue frontend and PHP backend. You will transform legacy jQuery into modern, component‑based Vue while preserving behavior.

The role emphasizes hands‑on coding, architecture thinking, and using AI‑assisted tooling to accelerate delivery across a live product. Remote‑friendly, senior‑level opportunity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of web app development experience.
• 3+ years building cloud‑native apps.
• Experience using AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code).
• Ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar legacy codebases and walk through examples.
• Independent researcher and problem solver.
• Strong Vue 3 expertise and component libraries.
• Proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS architecture, responsive and accessible design.
• RESTful API consumption and clean backend integration.
• Experience with Azure and SOLID principles.
• Front‑end testing (unit/integration).

Responsibilities

• Refresh and elevate the UI within a Vue + PHP app, modernizing legacy jQuery pages.
• Deliver modern, responsive, accessible UI improvements with a focus on performance.
• Establish and elevate front‑end quality across the team (components, state, CSS).
• Perform code reviews to enforce standards and patterns.
• Collaborate with product management and UX to translate goals into scalable solutions.
• Identify and fix UI performance bottlenecks (load times, rendering, resource use).
• Integrate with backend services via RESTful APIs.
• Lead by example through code reviews, pairing, and mentorship.
• Use AI‑assisted development tools as a core workflow to boost velocity and quality.

Skills

Vue 3

Component‑driven UI

Modern JavaScript/TypeScript

CSS architecture

Responsive web design

State management

Front‑end performance

RESTful API usage

Azure

SOLID principles

Unit/integration testing (FE)

AI‑assisted development

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Cursor

Azure

Job description

Unlock Your Future with Nexaminds!

At Nexaminds, we’re on a mission to redefine industries with AI. We’re passionate about the limitless potential of artificial intelligence to transform businesses, streamline processes, and drive growth.

Join us on our visionary journey. We’re leading the way in AI solutions, and we’re committed to innovation, collaboration, and ethical practices. Become a part of our team and shape the future powered by intelligent machines. If you’re driven by ambition, success, fun, and learning, Nexaminds is where you belong.

Objective

The Principal Software Engineer on this Experience team drives the visual modernization of an established application with a Vue front end backed by PHP, where newer pages are built in Vue and legacy pages remain in jQuery. This is a hands‑on senior development role focused on refreshing and elevating the user interface of a live product: modern, responsive, and accessible interfaces delivered within the application’s existing technology stack. This is a visual modernization effort, not a ground‑up rewrite. You will improve the experience of a running application where it lives, which means you pair strong, transferable front‑end engineering fundamentals with real depth in the application’s stack. A significant part of the work is modernizing legacy jQuery pages into modern, component‑based Vue.

This role requires strong architecture thinking, but the day‑to‑day is hands‑on coding, not high‑level design from a distance. The expectation is that you design solutions and then implement them yourself. Our modernization strategy is built on hiring fewer, highly senior engineers who use AI‑assisted development as a force multiplier, and we expect you to leverage agentic coding, spec‑driven development, and AI‑augmented code review as a core part of how you work, including to ramp quickly on an unfamiliar codebase. You will partner closely with product management and UX to translate experience goals into performant, consistent, and maintainable interfaces.

Core Job Duties

• Refreshing and elevating the interface within a Vue and PHP application, including modernizing legacy jQuery pages into modern, component‑based Vue, while preserving existing behavior
• Building modern, responsive, and accessible UI improvements with a focus on performance and consistency
• Establishing and elevating front‑end quality across the team, including component structure, CSS architecture, state management, and performance
• Performing code reviews to ensure front‑end implementations meet quality standards and follow established patterns
• Collaborating with product management and UX design to translate experience goals into scalable technical solutions
• Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in the UI layer, including load times, rendering performance, and client‑side resource management
• Integrating cleanly with backend services through RESTful APIs
• Raising the bar on modern front‑end development practices across the team through code reviews, pairing, and leading by example
• Using AI‑assisted development tools, including agentic coding, spec‑driven development, and AI‑augmented code review, as a core part of your daily workflow to maximize velocity and code quality, and to ramp quickly on unfamiliar legacy code

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years developing web applications
• 3+ years developing cloud‑native applications
• Demonstrated use of AI‑assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as part of professional development workflows
• Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar legacy codebases. Be prepared to walk through a specific example
• Ability to work independently to research and solve complex problems
• Strong skills in:
  • Expert‑level Vue 3, including component libraries and design systems
  • Component‑driven UI architecture
  • Modern JavaScript and TypeScript
  • CSS architecture
  • Responsive and accessible web design
  • State management patterns
  • Front‑end performance
• Experience with:
  • RESTful API consumption and clean backend integration
  • Azure
  • SOLID principles
  • Unit and integration testing for front‑end applications
• Experience with the following a plus:
  • Ability to read and modernize legacy jQuery into modern, component‑based Vue
  • Familiarity reading and working within a PHP‑backed application
  • Design system integration and component libraries
  • Accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1)
  • Performance profiling and optimization tools

What you can expect from us

Here at Nexaminds, we’re not your typical workplace. We’re all about creating a friendly and trusting environment where you can thrive. Why does this matter? Well, trust and openness lead to better quality, innovation, commitment to getting the job done, efficiency, and cost‑effectiveness.

• Stock options
• Remote work options
• Flexible working hours
• Benefits above the law
• But it’s not just about the work; it’s about the people too. You’ll be collaborating with some seriously awesome IT pros.
• You’ll have access to mentorship and tons of opportunities to learn and level up.