Principal Software Engineer – Front End

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

📋 Description

• Define and steer the strategic vision for frontend engineering practices, tools, and skill sets throughout the organization.

• Lead the creation of accessible, high-performing, and user-focused web applications catering to government clients.

• Act as the technical expert and thought leader in frontend architecture and engineering excellence.

• Design and execute modern frontend architectures, development pipelines, and deployment infrastructures.

• Deliver new features and enhancements to our customer-facing applications, emphasizing user experience and compliance with accessibility standards (Section 508, WCAG).

• Collaborate with product managers to conceptualize and balance the ideal UI/UX experience with implementation efforts, making practical trade-offs that provide value.

• Construct and sustain component libraries, design systems, and shared frontend infrastructure to enhance team velocity and consistency.

• Identify opportunities to update our frontend stack and take charge of technical initiatives that enhance developer experience and application quality.

• Establish and advocate for frontend best practices, including mobile-first development, testing strategies, performance optimization, accessibility standards, and code quality patterns.

• Mentor and guide engineers at all levels on frontend technologies while creating career development pathways for frontend specialization.

• Operate across the full stack as necessary to address problems end-to-end—backend experience is beneficial, but frontend remains your primary focus.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience.

• Must be a US citizen, capable of obtaining and maintaining Public Trust 6C.

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

• Strong expertise in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and a deep understanding of web platform APIs.

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

• Strong grasp of web accessibility standards (minimum WCAG 2.1 AA, Section 508 compliance).

• Experience with automated frontend testing strategies, including unit testing, component testing, and end-to-end UI testing with tools like Playwright, Cypress, or similar.

🏝️ Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan allowing contributions both pre and post-tax up to the IRS annual limits, along with a company match.

• To promote work/life balance, GDIT provides employees with full flex work weeks where feasible and a range of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick, personal time, holidays, paid parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave.

• GDIT typically grants new employees 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal matters, and illness, along with an additional 10 paid holidays annually.

• Paid leave and holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire.

• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program offers up to 160 hours of paid leave within a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• To ensure our employees can safeguard their income, additional offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment coverage, personal accident insurance, critical illness, and business travel accident insurance are provided or available.

• We regularly assess our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings remain competitive and align with what our employees value most.