Overview

Modern Tribe the company behind The Events Calendar, is looking for a JS Engineer in North America to join our product team.

We’re currently working on high-profile WordPress and SaaS products with a focus on calendaring and events. We will want to see code examples – public code is ideal. We want people that are able to develop code that can withstand high traffic 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 JavaScript projects that impact millions of users? Would you be stoked to push the limits of JavaScript powered applications on top of WordPress?

The opportunity calls for a mixed set of skills. We need someone with expert level JavaScript and React skills, solid CSS experience, and reasonable WordPress 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 JavaScript solutions using best practices
  • Adapt – Integrate code into existing architecture
  • Collaborate – Coordinate with designers, back-end developers, and strategists
  • Perform – Produce code solutions that load quickly and smoothly
  • Review – Be a good code steward 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

  • Advanced level JavaScript skills
  • Advanced level React skills
  • Experience with CSS preprocessors
  • Git
  • Basic WordPress skills
  • Proficiency at local environment development
  • 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 a JavaScript test framework like Jest, Karma, Mocha, or Enzyme

Requirements
We love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work exclusively with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. To be on our team, you must be:

  • HAPPY –  Where there is a will, there is a way. Having a positive disposition allows us to achieve great things and to support each other.
  • HELPFUL – Always looking for ways that you can help others.
  • CURIOUS – It is essential that you have a passion for learning. Technology changes daily, and life has a way of constantly raising the bar.
  • ACCOUNTABLE – Our clients expect us to get the right thing done on budget and on time. Communicating expectations and meeting them is the cornerstone of success.

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.

(Also, if you work enough with us, we’ll bring you on the team trips.)

About Modern Tribe

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.

We are a digital agency. We are a product company. We are educators. In today’s world, we get to be many things to many people.

Our team is composed of talented employees and freelancers around North & South America (and a smattering across the globe). We believe in making quality products for other people and ourselves, balanced by living quality lives. We are 100% distributed.

We believe that you should be happy, helpful, curious & accountable, on top of being good at what you do. We believe life should be lived intentionally. We believe in a class of artisans and craftsman in control of their work who solve people problems rather than just build more shit. We believe in a sustainable vision of open source, and contribute consistently into the ecosystem.

Specifically, this opportunity is with our digital products teams working on all things related to TheEventsCalendar.com and other related endeavors. The common threads in marketing for our digital products are WordPress and events. Most of our products today focus on the intersection of the two. Moving forward, we are exploring products beyond as well.