Principal Software Engineer - Vue.Js
A hands-on principal engineer on isolved's Experience team modernizes the UI of its live HCM product, converting legacy jQuery pages into component-based Vue 3 within a PHP-backed stack, with focus on responsive/accessible design, front-end performance, and AI-assisted development workflows. Based in Hyderabad, India.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hyderabad, TS, IN
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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) in professional workflows
- Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar legacy codebases
- Ability to work independently to research and solve complex problems
- 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
- Experience with Azure
- Experience with SOLID principles
- Experience with unit and integration testing for front-end applications
- Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree
Nice to have
- 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
Full description
Why Work Here
- Headquarters is in Charlotte, NC
- Recently expanded to nearshore
- isolved ranked for SMB Payroll in 2023 Sapient Report
- Voted top places to work in USA 2023
Job 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,where newer pages are built in Vue and legacy pages remain in jQuery, as part of isolved's Suite Experience initiative. 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, and you will integrate cleanly with isolved's evolving service architecture.
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