Senior Front End Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology1 day ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$122k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the strategic direction for frontend engineering practices, tooling, architecture, and skill development across the organization.
- Lead development of accessible, performant, user-centered web applications for government customers.
- Build and maintain component libraries, design systems, and shared frontend infrastructure.
- Deliver frontend features and improvements while balancing user experience, business requirements, and implementation effort.
- Establish frontend standards for mobile-first development, testing, performance, accessibility, and code quality.
- Design and maintain frontend build, deployment, monitoring, and automated testing pipelines.
- Lead large-scale technical initiatives, make organization-wide architectural decisions, and influence outcomes across teams.
- Mentor and develop engineers at all levels and build organizational frontend capability.
- Collaborate with product managers and designers throughout the application development lifecycle.
- Work across the full stack when needed, with frontend engineering as the primary focus.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of related experience.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and implementing modern frontend applications at scale using React and/or Angular.
- Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript or TypeScript, CSS architecture, responsive design, and web platform APIs.
- Practical experience with WCAG 2.1 AA, Section 508 compliance, accessibility linting, and automated accessibility testing.
- Experience with frontend build tooling, bundling, deployment pipelines, CDN strategies, asset optimization, and progressive enhancement.
- Experience with unit, component, and end-to-end frontend testing using tools such as Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Angular Testing Library, Playwright, or Cypress.
- Experience with design systems, component libraries, state management, asynchronous data handling, and cross-browser compatibility.
- Knowledge of web performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, frontend monitoring, API integration, GraphQL or REST, and backend services.
- Experience establishing CI/CD pipelines with automated accessibility checks, linting, and testing.
- Strong product thinking, communication, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, and architectural decision-making skills.
- Must be a US citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C.
Benefits
- Remote work from any location with approximately 0–10% business travel and a 40-hour scheduled work week.
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) plan options, including employer matching.
- Flexible work weeks where possible, paid vacation, sick and personal leave, holidays, and paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
- Typically 15 days of paid leave and 10 paid holidays per calendar year, prorated based on hire date.
- Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.
- Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel insurance offerings.
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About General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) delivers enterprise IT, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, and software engineering services to U.S. federal agencies, including defense and intelligence organizations. It provides contract-based professional and managed services ranging from network operations and unified communications to training and simulation. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.