Senior Frontend React Engineer

Modern Family Law • Atlanta, GA

2d • $115,000 - $125,000

About The Position

Modern Family Law is seeking a Senior Frontend React Engineer to build the frontend for a new technology product supporting real legal workflows used by clients and attorneys. This is a greenfield product integrating enterprise systems, payments, data, and AI capabilities. The engineer will establish frontend architecture that can support the product as it grows, using React and TypeScript with Vite.

The role owns frontend architecture and implementation, including shared components, application structure, production workflows, state management, routing, forms, validation, error handling, and reusable patterns. The engineer will turn designs and prototypes into production-ready experiences, collaborate with product and backend engineers on workflow and data requirements, and partner on API contracts and client/server responsibilities. The role also builds secure, role-aware experiences for sensitive client information and integrates AI-enabled workflows with clear handling of generated content, sources, confirmations, errors, and failures.

The engineer is responsible for frontend performance, accessibility, responsive behavior, browser support, production quality, and automated testing. They will review code, set frontend standards, and guide an existing frontend developer as the team grows. Candidates must live within commuting distance of a Georgia or Texas office: Atlanta, Alpharetta, or Savannah, Georgia; or Dallas or Austin, Texas.

Requirements

• Reside within a commutable distance of an office in Atlanta, Alpharetta, or Savannah, GA, or Dallas or Austin, TX.
• 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 React 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 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.
• 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 frontend conventions for a maintainable application.
• Build secure, role-aware client and attorney experiences with strong validation and clear presentation of permissions and workflow state.
• Integrate AI-powered capabilities into product workflows and design how generated content, sources, confirmations, corrections, loading states, and failures are presented.
• Own frontend performance, accessibility, responsive behavior, browser support, and production quality.
• Establish testing practices and coverage for critical components and user workflows, including component, workflow, and regression testing.
• 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.
• Vision care.
• Life insurance.
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Vacation, sick time, and public holidays/PTO.
• 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 eligibility after six months.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed