Senior Front End Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Front End Engineer (Remote)

• Experience: 5+ years

• Focus: Accessible, user-centered web applications

Description

Lead the strategic direction for frontend engineering practices, tooling, and skillsets. Drive development of performant, accessible, and user-centered customer-facing web applications with strong emphasis on UX and accessibility compliance (Section 508, WCAG). Serve as the technical authority for frontend architecture, pipelines, and engineering excellence while mentoring engineers and influencing cross-team decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead frontend engineering standards, tooling, and modernization initiatives

• Architect modern frontend systems, component libraries, and shared infrastructure

• Build and maintain development pipelines and deployment infrastructure

• Deliver features with a strong focus on user experience and accessibility compliance

• Partner with product managers to balance UI/UX goals with implementation effort

• Establish frontend best practices: mobile-first, testing, performance optimization, accessibility, and code quality

• Mentor and coach engineers; develop career pathways for frontend specialization

• Work end-to-end when needed (backend experience helpful but frontend is primary)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plan options (some with HSA)

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

• Full flex work weeks where possible

• Paid time off: vacation/sick/personal, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave

• Paid Family Leave program (up to 160 hours for eligible employees)

• Disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, and other insurance options

Requirements

• 5+ years of related frontend engineering experience

• Proven ability leading delivery of multiple production-ready, accessible frontend applications

• Experience architecting and implementing modern frontend applications at scale using React and/or Angular

• Experience establishing frontend standards, practices, and tooling that improve team productivity and code quality

• Hands-on experience with frontend build tooling, bundling, and deployment pipelines (Webpack, Vite, pnpm/npm or similar)

• Strong accessibility knowledge (WCAG 2.1 AA minimum, Section 508) and practical experience with accessibility linting/testing (axe-core, eslint-pluginjsx-a11y) integrated into CI/CD

• Experience with automated testing strategies: unit, component, and end-to-end UI testing (Playwright, Cypress or similar)

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

• Experience with design systems and component libraries across multiple applications

Qualifications (Technical Excellence)

• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript and deep web platform API knowledge

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

• Unit testing (Jest/Vitest), component testing (React Testing Library/Angular Testing Library), end-to-end UI testing (Playwright)

• Accessibility validation integrated into testing pipelines (axe-core or similar)

• State management patterns and asynchronous data handling

• Web performance optimization and Core Web Vitals monitoring

• API integration patterns (GraphQL/REST) and working with backend services

• Cloud deployment patterns for frontend (CDN, static hosting)

• CI/CD pipelines with automated accessibility checks, linting, and testing

Product Mindset & User Experience

• Product thinking to balance user needs, business requirements, and technical constraints

• Collaboration with product managers and designers on customer-facing UX

• Ability to advocate for feasible, accessible solutions

• Data-driven approach to measuring and improving user experience through analytics and user feedback