Senior Frontend React Engineer
About The Position
Modern Family Law is seeking a Senior Frontend React Engineer to lead frontend architecture and implementation for a new technology product supporting real legal workflows. This greenfield product will integrate enterprise systems, payments, data, and AI capabilities, and the frontend architecture established in this role will support future growth. The engineer will build the product using React and TypeScript, translating designs and prototypes into production-ready experiences and partnering with product and backend engineers on workflows, data requirements, and API contracts. The role owns frontend patterns for complex multi-step workflows, including forms, conditional logic, validation, autosave, recovery, error handling, and role-aware experiences for clients and attorneys. The engineer will establish maintainable component, state-management, routing, form, and testing practices; integrate AI-enabled capabilities into user workflows; and own accessibility, performance, responsive behavior, browser support, and production quality. The role also includes code review, setting frontend standards, and providing technical guidance to the existing frontend developer. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of one of the firm’s Georgia or Texas offices. Work from anywhere may be available to eligible employees after six months.
Requirements
- Reside within commuting distance of an office in Atlanta, Alpharetta, or Savannah, Georgia, or Dallas or Austin, Texas.
- 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.
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 frontend architecture and implementation of the product in React and TypeScript, 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.
- Own 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 frontend conventions.
- Build secure, role-aware experiences for clients and attorneys, with strong validation, clear user 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
- Health insurance, with an optional Health Savings Account (HSA).
- Short-term disability and long-term disability.
- Dental insurance and vision care.
- Life insurance.
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan.
- Vacation, sick time, and public holidays.
- Employee assistance program.
- Training and development.
- Additional voluntary accident, life, disability, long-term care, critical illness and cancer, and pet insurance programs.
- Commuter and transit benefit programs may be available in certain markets.
- Work from anywhere may be available after six months for eligible employees.
- Competitive compensation and performance incentives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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