Principal Front End Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and steer the strategic direction for frontend engineering practices, tools, and skillsets throughout the organization.

• Lead the development of accessible, high-performing, user-centered web applications catering to government clients.

• Act as the technical authority and thought leader for frontend architecture and engineering excellence.

• Design and implement frontend architectures, development pipelines, and deployment infrastructures.

• Deliver features and enhancements to customer-facing applications with a focus on user experience and compliance with accessibility standards.

• Collaborate with product managers to strike a balance between UI/UX quality and implementation effort.

• Build and maintain component libraries, design systems, and shared frontend infrastructure.

• Modernize the frontend stack and spearhead technical initiatives that enhance developer experience and application quality.

• Establish frontend best practices for mobile-first development, testing, performance, accessibility, and code quality.

• Mentor and coach engineers while establishing career pathways for frontend specialization.

• Influence technical decisions across teams and provide guidance on frontend initiatives.

• Work across the full stack as needed to resolve problems end-to-end.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of relevant experience.

• Proven track record of leading and delivering multiple production-ready, accessible frontend applications.

• Demonstrated experience in architecting and implementing modern frontend applications at scale using React and/or Angular.

• Familiarity with establishing frontend engineering standards, practices, and tools.

• Experience with frontend build tools, bundling strategies, and deployment pipelines, including Webpack, Vite, pnpm, npm, or similar technologies.

• Strong understanding of WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 compliance, with practical experience in accessibility implementation.

• Experience with accessibility linting and automated accessibility testing in CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficient in automated unit, component, and end-to-end UI testing using tools like Playwright, Cypress, or similar.

• Familiarity with frontend infrastructure, CDN strategies, asset optimization, and progressive enhancement.

• Experience with design systems and component libraries.

• Strong expertise in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and web platform APIs.

• Understanding of CSS architecture, mobile-first responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility.

• Knowledge of Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Angular Testing Library, and Playwright.

• Experience integrating accessibility validation using axe-core or similar tools.

• Knowledge of state management and asynchronous data handling.

• Awareness of web performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, and frontend monitoring.

• Understanding of GraphQL or REST API integration and backend services.

• Familiarity with CDN and static hosting deployment patterns.

• Experience in establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with accessibility checks, linting, and testing.

• Strong product-oriented mindset and knowledge of contemporary UI/UX principles and user-centered design.

• Experience working alongside product managers and designers on customer-facing applications.

• Data-driven approach utilizing analytics and user feedback.

• Ability to lead large-scale technical initiatives and influence multiple teams.

• Proficient in communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven experience in mentoring and developing engineers.

• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C.

• The position requires approximately 0–10% business travel.

🏝️ Benefits

• Options for medical plans, some including Health Savings Accounts.

• Options for dental plans.

• Vision plan available.

• 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contributions along with company matching.

• Flexible work weeks where feasible.

• Paid time off for vacation, sick leave, personal days, holidays, parental leave, military leave, bereavement, and jury duty.

• Typically, 15 days of paid leave are provided per calendar year.

• 10 paid holidays available each year.

• Up to 160 hours of paid family leave within a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• Short- and long-term disability benefits offered.

• Life insurance included.

• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance provided.

• Personal accident insurance available.

• Critical illness insurance offered.

• Business travel and accident insurance included.