Frontend/JavaScript developer

About Us:

We are a web development company focused on the creation of WordPress themes and
plugins. With more than 30K clients and our 6 years of experience in this domain, we are one of
the big names in WordPress themes industry.

Job description:

We are looking for someone who will have as the main tasks to improve and extend our own
WordPress page builder ( https://kallyas.net/#main-browser-shot ) used in all our themes. This
will require migrating from a jQuery written code to Vue framework.

Needed:

• Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Git
• Great knowledge about Javascript and its quirks (asynchronous-ness, prototype inheritance, etc.)
• Have worked with Vue.js or an equivalent MVC platform (Angular, React, Ember) multiple times
• Good knowledge about design patterns and software architecture
• Have at least a basic knowledge of RESTful APIs and CRUD
• Creative problem solving and strong communication skills
• Lots of curiosity and passion for various frameworks and programming in general
• Have a basic knowledge of NPM, Babel and unit testing (Jasmine, Karma, Mocha, etc.)

Preferred :

• In-depth knowledge of Vue (lifecycles, reactivity, rendering, etc.) and basic knowledge about Vuex
• Experience with the latest JavaScript standards and functional programming in Javascript
• Knowledge of Agile, continuous integration and various development practices
• Have worked in the past with WordPress and/or PHP
• Knowledge of a CSS-based framework such as Sass or Less
• Very organized and tidy when it comes to coding (leaving comments, detailed git commits, etc.)
• Have used jsperf.com or other benchmarking tools before

Responsibilities:

• Create various components and functionalities in Vue from scratch
• Use various techniques in order to solve complex problems – techniques such as caching, inheritance, recursive rendering, etc.
• Build and upgrade interface layers between the storage (Vuex Store) and the UI
• Convert deprecated pieces of old Javascript/Jquery code into cleaned-up Vue code
• Unit-test and benchmark the code and then come up with solutions in order to make it as performant as possible
• Dig through source files and the documentation pages of various frameworks and plugins in order to find solutions