[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer @Nexaminds

Role Description

The Principal Software Engineer on this Experience team drives the visual modernization of an established application with a Vue front end backed by PHP. 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.

• Improve the experience of a running application where it lives.
• Pair strong, transferable front-end engineering fundamentals with real depth in the application’s stack.
• Design solutions and then implement them yourself.
• Leverage agentic coding, spec-driven development, and AI-augmented code review as a core part of how you work.
• 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, improving component structure, styling, and interaction 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.

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.
• 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:
  • 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.

Benefits

• Stock options 📈
• Remote work options 🏠
• Flexible working hours 🕜
• Benefits above the law.
• Access to mentorship and tons of opportunities to learn and level up.