Software Engineer, Front End

Description

• Design and build the frontend application from the ground up • Establish scalable patterns for components, routing, state management, performance, accessibility, and maintainability • Translate product requirements and UI/UX concepts into responsive, intuitive, high-quality application features • Build reliable integrations between frontend and backend services • Work with API contracts, data structures, payloads, application state, error handling, and asynchronous workflows • Participate in decisions about frameworks, libraries, application structure, reusable components, testing strategies, and development standards • Collaborate with backend developers, AI/technical specialists, QA, and product leadership • Work within GitHub, AWS/GIT-based workflows, and CI/CD pipelines • Use AI-assisted development tools for documentation, testing, debugging, code scaffolding, and repetitive engineering tasks • Write scripts or utilities to eliminate repetitive tasks, manipulate data, support development environments, and improve workflows • Break complex requirements into technical tasks and deliver working software through Agile/Scrum • Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, sprint planning, estimation, and continuous improvement • Establish frontend architecture and technical foundations for a new application • Deliver production-ready features and reusable components • Troubleshoot issues across frontend, API, data, and development workflow layers • Become a trusted technical partner to product leadership, backend development, QA, and engineering team members

Requirements

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful hands-on experience building modern frontend applications • Strong proficiency in JavaScript and/or TypeScript • Experience with modern component-based frontend development • Professional experience with React or another modern frontend framework • Experience designing and building reusable frontend components and responsive application interfaces • Hands-on experience integrating applications with RESTful APIs or comparable backend services • Experience using Git and GitHub in a collaborative software engineering environment • Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and modern software development workflows • Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including maintainability, testing, debugging, source control, and code review • Ability to work independently through ambiguous technical problems and explain implementation decisions • Experience using AI-assisted software development tools for code generation, testing, documentation, debugging, or development acceleration • Technical judgment to validate AI-assisted tool output • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Ability to collaborate effectively in a remote engineering environment • Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time • Must occasionally move about inside the office • Must constantly work with computers and other information technology equipment • Ability to communicate information and ideas in a classroom-style format and stand at a podium for long periods • React experience is preferred; strong engineers from comparable frameworks will be considered • Nice-to-have experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, GIT/AWS workflows, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-based application delivery, scripting or automation, frontend architecture, component libraries, automated testing, AI/LLM applications, and Agile/Scrum

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage options • Paid time off that grows with tenure • 11 paid holidays annually • 401(k) retirement savings plan • Financial planning guidance • Up to $5,250 annually in tuition assistance for approved coursework • Support for professional training and certifications • Company HSA contributions of $600 for individual coverage or $1,200 for family coverage, prorated • Company-paid life insurance • Short-term and long-term disability coverage • Remote work arrangement

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