Senior Front End Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Define and guide the strategic vision for frontend engineering practices, tools, and skill development throughout the organization

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

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

• Design and implement contemporary frontend architectures, development pipelines, and deployment infrastructure

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

• Collaborate with product managers to balance UI/UX quality against implementation efforts

• Build and sustain component libraries, design systems, and shared frontend infrastructure

• Modernize the frontend technology 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 guide engineers while creating frontend career development pathways

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

• Work across the entire stack when necessary to resolve end-to-end issues

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of relevant experience

• Proven history of leading and delivering multiple production-ready, accessible 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 like Webpack, Vite, pnpm, or npm

• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 compliance

• Experience in accessibility linting and automated accessibility testing within CI/CD pipelines, including tools such as axe-core or eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y

• Proficiency in automated unit, component, and end-to-end UI testing using tools like Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, or Angular Testing Library

• Knowledge of frontend infrastructure, CDN strategies, asset optimization, and progressive enhancement

• Familiarity 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

• Experience with state management and asynchronous data handling

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

• Understanding of GraphQL or REST API integrations and backend services

• Familiarity with cloud deployment patterns, including CDN and static hosting

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

• Strong product thinking skills and contemporary UI/UX knowledge

• Experience collaborating with product managers and designers on customer-facing applications

• Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale technical initiatives across various teams

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Proven track record of mentoring and developing engineers

• Must be a US Citizen and capable of obtaining and maintaining Public Trust 6C

• Willingness to travel approximately 0–10%

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts

• Dental plan options

• Vision plan

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

• Flexible work weeks where feasible

• Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave

• Typically 15 days of paid leave each calendar year

• 10 paid holidays annually

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

• Short- and long-term disability benefits

• Life insurance

• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance

• Personal accident insurance

• Critical illness insurance

• Business travel and accident insurance