Principal Front End Engineer

Role Description

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SENIOR

What You’ll Do:

• Define and drive the strategic direction for frontend engineering practices, tooling, and skillset across the organization.
• Lead the development of accessible, performant, and user-centered web applications that serve government customers.
• Serve as the technical authority and thought leader for frontend architecture and engineering excellence.
• Design and implement modern frontend architectures, development pipelines, and deployment infrastructure.
• Deliver new features and improvements to our customer-facing applications with a strong focus on user experience and accessibility compliance (Section 508, WCAG).
• Collaborate with product managers to ideate and balance optimal UI/UX experience with implementation effort, making pragmatic trade-offs that deliver value.
• Build and maintain component libraries, design systems, and shared frontend infrastructure that enable team velocity and consistency.
• Identify opportunities to modernize our frontend stack and take ownership of technical initiatives that improve developer experience and application quality.
• Establish and champion frontend best practices including mobile-first development, testing strategies, performance optimization, accessibility standards, and code quality patterns.
• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels on frontend technologies and establish career development pathways for frontend specialization.
• Influence technical decisions across teams and serve as a strategic advisor on frontend initiatives.
• Work across the full stack when needed to solve problems end-to-end – backend experience is valuable but frontend is your primary focus.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record of leading and delivering multiple production-ready, accessible frontend applications.
• Proven experience architecting and implementing modern frontend applications at scale using React and/or Angular.
• Track record of establishing frontend engineering standards, practices, and tooling that improve team productivity and code quality.
• Working experience with frontend build tooling, bundling strategies, and deployment pipelines (Webpack, Vite, pnpm, npm, or similar).
• Strong understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA minimum, Section 508 compliance) with practical implementation experience including accessibility linting (axe-core, eslint-pluginjsx-a11y) and automated accessibility testing in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with automated frontend testing strategies including unit testing, component testing, and end-to-end UI testing with tools like Playwright, Cypress, or similar.
• Familiarity with frontend infrastructure, CDN strategies, asset optimization, and progressive enhancement patterns.
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, and maintaining consistency across multiple applications.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C.
• Position is remote, with approximately 0-10% business travel.

Benefits

• Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options and a vision plan.
• 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.