Frontend Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Frontend Developer

• Focus: Modern, accessible UI for a mission-focused web application

Description

Design and build modern, user-friendly web interfaces for a mission-focused application. You’ll modernize existing pages, create new frontend features as the platform grows, and collaborate with full stack developers, QA, and stakeholders to deliver an accessible, easy-to-use experience.

Responsibilities

• UI/UX Modernization: Redesign the home page, establish a consistent design language (typography, color, spacing, icons, layout), refactor pages/components to a new design system, and improve usability of data-heavy views (tables, filters, forms, real-time status displays).

• Feature Development: Deliver frontend features end to end (requirements/UI design → implementation → testing → release), translate Jira stories into working components aligned to the design system, and define API contracts with full stack developers.

• Real-time UI: Build responsive interfaces driven by WebSocket updates.

• Design System & Quality: Build and maintain a shared component library using ShadCN UI and Tailwind CSS; ensure accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA / Section 508) and responsive behavior.

• Testing & QA collaboration: Write and maintain component tests (Vitest, React Testing Library) and support Cypress end-to-end coverage.

• Delivery & tooling: Participate in sprint planning, code reviews, and design discussions; present proposals/wireframes/demos; document standards; deliver changes via GitLab CI/CD and containerized deployments.

Requirements

• 3 years of experience in UI/UX development

• Experience with React.js

• Experience with API integration

• Experience developing applications for a cloud environment

• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript

• Must have an active Top Secret clearance; TS/SCI with polygraph preferred and willingness to sit for a polygraph

Benefits

• Compensation range: $91,700–$178,700 USD (based on location and other factors)

• Benefits package available (details provided by the employer)