Frontend Lead

About this role

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: NACI (T1)

Job Family: Software Engineering

Job Qualifications: Skills: Code Reviews, Front End Architecture, JavaScript, Web Applications Certifications: None Experience: 5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description: Position Summary The Frontend Lead owns the architecture and construction of the web application used by operators in a cyber command center supporting national cyber defense across Critical Infrastructure, State, Local, Tribal and Territorial, and Federal Civilian Executive Branch partners. Successful candidate designs the front-end architecture that supports that, builds a substantial share of it, and sets the standards the other interface engineers work to.

Key Responsibilities

Application Architecture • Own the front-end architecture, including module structure, composition, routing, build tooling, and dependency management • Design the application so functional areas can be developed, tested, and released independently without destabilizing the whole • Design and own the shared application state model, including context that persists as a user moves between functional areas • Establish and maintain the shared component library and the conventions governing its use

Real-Time Data Handling • Implement consumption of continuously updating data over WebSocket, server-sent event, or comparable streaming interfaces • Handle connection lifecycle, authentication on the stream, reconnection, and recovery of state missed during an interruption • Implement update strategies that keep the interface responsive under sustained high-frequency change • Implement stale, degraded, and disconnected states so the currency of displayed data is always evident

Access-Driven Rendering • Implement rendering driven by user role and permission, so available content and actions are determined by entitlement • Implement client-side handling of content-level restrictions supplied by the service layer • Ensure entitlement logic is testable and that failures fail closed

Performance & Display Targets • Profile and optimize rendering, update, and interaction performance against realistic data volumes • Ensure the application performs on the managed workstation configuration and restricted browser baseline deployed in the operating environment • Support use across multiple simultaneous views and multiple displays, and rendering on large-format shared displays

Quality, Accessibility & Standards • Ensure the application meets Section 508 and WCAG requirements as a condition of delivery • Own the automated test approach across component, integration, and end-to-end levels • Enforce code quality standards through review, static analysis, and shared conventions • Obtain and maintain the training and certifications required for the position. Certification currency is tracked and reported to the customer monthly.

Technical Leadership & Delivery • Provide technical direction and code review to the engineers building the interface • Break work into deliverable increments and estimate credibly against a fixed delivery date • Work with the design function so designs are implementable and applied consistently • Work with the service layer engineers on interface contracts and data delivery patterns, and with platform engineers on build and deployment • Identify and escalate technical risk affecting the delivery schedule

Required Qualifications • Senior hands-on experience architecting and building production single-page web applications in a modern component-based framework. • Experience with modular or independently deployable front-end architectures. • Experience owning shared application state, including context that persists across functional areas. • Experience building interfaces driven by continuously updating data over WebSocket, server-sent events, or an equivalent, including reconnection and state recovery. • Experience implementing role or permission-driven rendering. • Demonstrated ability to sustain rendering and interaction performance under high-frequency updates and large data volumes. • Strong proficiency in a statically typed JavaScript environment, modern build tooling, and automated testing practice. • Working knowledge of Section 508 and WCAG requirements and how to satisfy them in a shared component library. • Experience providing technical direction and code review to other engineers. • Technical training, certification, or a degree in a related field, and 5 years of relevant experience. Additional years of directly relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement in accordance with company labor category policy. • Public Trust eligibility. • United States citizenship is required. • Work on site at a government facility in the DMV area.

Preferred Qualifications • Production experience with React and TypeScript specifically. The application is currently expected to be built in React. • Experience building operational or monitoring interfaces intended for sustained use. • Experience with micro-frontend composition or equivalent independent-deployment patterns. • Specific experience with content delivery and static hosting services such as CloudFront and S3, or Azure Front Door and Blob Storage. • Experience with large-format or shared-display rendering targets. • Experience delivering software in a government or otherwise regulated environment. • Experience establishing a design system or component library from scratch. • IAAP Web Accessibility Specialist, or demonstrable equivalent accessibility practice.

The likely salary range for this position is $148,750 - $201,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

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