Front End React UI Engineer, Assistant Vice President

State Street•Boston, MA

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Experience Design team at State Street is building a shared design system and front-end platform (SSDS) to deliver reusable components, layouts, design tokens, theming, and UI engineering capabilities for enterprise-wide digital experiences. This design system aims to enable consistent, accessible, and scalable user experiences across products by providing shared front-end foundations, reusable UI patterns, and modern engineering workflows for enterprise application teams. The team is seeking a Front End React UI Engineer to contribute to building intuitive, scalable, and high-quality user experiences across the SSDS platform. This role is crucial for developing modern front-end applications, reusable UI components, and shared design system capabilities that support enterprise products and front-end teams throughout the organization. The design system serves as a shared foundation for product teams, and this role ensures that shared components, styling patterns, accessibility practices, and front-end standards are implemented consistently and at high quality, thereby enabling teams to accelerate development while delivering a more unified user experience.

Requirements

Proven experience building modern front-end applications in a professional engineering environment.
Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, with strong hands-on expertise in React and modern front-end application development.
Experience developing reusable UI components, application shells, and scalable client-side architecture.
Experience working with Tailwind CSS, utility-first CSS frameworks, or comparable front-end styling systems.
Experience working with design systems, reusable component libraries, and token-driven UI development.
Solid understanding of front-end fundamentals including state management, performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive design.
Experience building accessible user interfaces and applying accessibility best practices and standards.
Experience consuming REST APIs and working with back-end services in distributed systems.
Experience with modern front-end tooling such as Vite, Vitest, Storybook, or similar development workflows.
Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and UX teams.
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail in building polished, user-centered interfaces.
Comfort working in a fast-moving enterprise environment with evolving priorities and complex workflows.
3+ years of experience in front-end engineering or full-stack development with a strong front-end focus.
Demonstrated expertise building production-grade applications with React.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience working within a large, regulated enterprise environment.
Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, and accessibility standards such as WCAG.
Familiarity with CSS variables, theming systems, and scalable styling patterns for enterprise applications.
Experience with data-rich applications, workflow platforms, or enterprise SaaS products.
Exposure to AI-enabled products, intelligent automation, or human-in-the-loop workflow applications.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain responsive, accessible, and performant front-end applications, reusable UI components, and design system capabilities for SSDS.
Translate product, UX, and business requirements into clean, maintainable, and reusable UI components and application features.
Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver workflow-driven user experiences in an iterative, product-led model.
Develop front-end integrations with APIs, shared services, and platform capabilities.
Contribute to reusable design systems, front-end standards, and engineering best practices.
Help implement agent-assisted and AI-enabled user experiences with a strong focus on clarity, trust, transparency, and usability.
Write well-tested, secure, and maintainable code that meets enterprise quality and compliance expectations.
Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvement of front-end architecture and development processes.

Benefits

retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
access to our Employee Assistance Program
incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
inclusive development opportunities
flexible work-life support
paid volunteer days
vibrant employee networks