Senior Frontend React Engineer
About The Position
Modern Family Law is seeking a Senior Frontend React Engineer to build a new technology product for family law. Clients and attorneys will rely on the product for real legal workflows, and the frontend architecture established in this role will support the product as it grows. The greenfield product integrates enterprise systems, payments, data, and AI capabilities. The engineer will own the frontend architecture and implementation using React and TypeScript, translating product designs and interactive prototypes into production-ready experiences. They will establish reusable components, application structure, state-management and routing patterns, form strategy, validation, and frontend conventions. The role includes designing reliable multi-step workflows, integrating with backend APIs, building secure role-aware experiences, and presenting AI-enabled functionality clearly to users. The engineer will also own frontend performance, accessibility, responsiveness, browser compatibility, and production quality; establish automated testing practices for critical components and workflows; and review code, set standards, and guide the existing frontend developer as the team grows. The position requires residing within commuting distance of the firm's offices in San Jose, Oakland, Seattle, Bellevue, or Everett. Work from anywhere may be available after six months.
Requirements
- Must reside within commuting distance of an office in San Jose, Oakland, Seattle, Bellevue, or Everett.
- 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.
- Ability to think architecturally and systematically, translate operational needs into scalable technical solutions, collaborate across legal, operational, and technical teams, identify inefficiencies, and balance innovation, reliability, security, and operational scalability.
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, collaborating with product and backend engineers on design, workflow, and data requirements.
- Establish frontend patterns for 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 user feedback, and accurate presentation of permissions and workflow state.
- Integrate AI-powered capabilities into product workflows, including the 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
- Highly 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.
- Employee assistance program.
- Voluntary accident, life, disability, long-term care, 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.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
