Senior Frontend React Engineer

Modern Family Law•Fort Collins, CO

2d•$120,000 - $130,000

About The Position

Modern Family Law is seeking a Senior Frontend React Engineer to build a new technology product for family law. The product will support real legal workflows used by clients and attorneys and integrate enterprise systems, payments, data, and AI capabilities. This role will own the frontend architecture and implementation in React and TypeScript, establishing the patterns and quality practices that will support the product as it grows. The engineer will work closely with product and backend engineers to turn designs and interactive prototypes into production experiences, define API contracts and client/server responsibilities, and build secure, role-aware workflows for sensitive client information. The position also involves integrating AI-enabled capabilities into user workflows, maintaining accessibility, performance, responsive behavior and browser compatibility, and setting frontend standards and testing practices. The role provides technical guidance to the existing frontend developer. Candidates must live within commuting distance of one of the firm's Colorado offices in Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, or Denver. Work from anywhere may be available after six months to eligible employees. Compensation is $120,000–$130,000 annually, described as an estimate of base salary plus projected bonuses and billable-hour commission; actual pay may vary based on experience, location, billable-hour expectations, and other job-related factors.

Requirements

Production experience building React and TypeScript applications with complex user workflows.
Experience establishing frontend architecture for products with meaningful application state and significant backend-service integration.
Strong knowledge of component architecture, state management, forms, routing, and maintainable frontend patterns.
Experience building multi-step or workflow-based applications with validation, conditional logic, persistence, recovery, and clear error states.
Understanding of frontend authentication flows and role-aware interfaces, including which controls must be enforced by backend services.
Experience partnering with backend engineers to define API contracts and data structures.
Strong accessibility, responsive design, browser compatibility, and frontend performance practices.
Experience implementing automated frontend testing for critical components and user workflows.
Ability to review code, establish frontend standards, and provide technical guidance to other frontend developers.
Ability to work independently as the senior frontend engineer on a greenfield product and make sound architectural decisions.
Must reside within a commutable distance of a Colorado office in Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, or Denver.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing frontend experiences for AI-enabled workflows.
Experience building payment, client intake, or other state-sensitive workflows.
Experience working with sensitive client data or in a regulated environment.
Experience working closely with product and design teams to translate prototypes into production applications.
Legal industry or legal technology experience.

Responsibilities

Own the React and TypeScript frontend architecture and implementation, from shared components and application structure through production workflows.
Translate product designs and interactive prototypes into production-ready user experiences in collaboration with product and backend engineers.
Establish frontend patterns for complex, multi-step workflows, including forms, conditional logic, validation, autosave, resume, loading states, error handling, and recovery.
Partner with the Senior Backend API Engineer to define API contracts, data structures, error handling, and client/server responsibilities.
Establish component architecture, state-management patterns, routing, form strategy, and maintainable frontend conventions.
Build secure, role-aware experiences for clients and attorneys, with strong validation, clear feedback, and accurate presentation of permissions and workflow state.
Integrate AI-powered capabilities into product workflows, including presentation of generated content, sources, confirmations, corrections, loading states, and failures.
Own frontend performance, accessibility, responsive behavior, browser support, and production quality.
Establish testing practices for critical components and user workflows, including component, workflow, and regression coverage.
Review code, set frontend standards, and provide technical guidance to the existing frontend developer as the team grows.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and performance incentives.
Health insurance, with an optional Health Savings Account (HSA).
Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Dental insurance and vision care.
Life insurance.
Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
401(k) retirement plan.
Vacation, sick time, and public holidays/Paid Time Off.
Employee assistance program.
Voluntary accident insurance, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability, voluntary long-term care, voluntary critical illness and cancer insurance, and pet insurance.
Commuter and transit benefit programs may be available in certain markets.
Training and development.
Work from anywhere may be available to eligible employees after six months.