Senior Front End Web Developer

Title: Frontend Web Developer
Duration: 5 months possible extension
Location: Mclean, VA - Fully Onsite

Overview:
Client is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a frontend focus to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will build modern, scalable user interfaces-primarily in React (preferred) and Angular-delivering exceptional user experiences in production. You will be responsible for designing and developing UI applications that support and showcase GenAI-driven capabilities, ensuring that the user experience is aligned with the unique requirements and opportunities presented by GenAI solutions.

Key Responsibilities:
• Develop Front-end Features: Design, develop, and implement user interfaces and client-side logic using TypeScript with React or Angular.
• API Integration: Integrate front-end applications with backend services (built with Python/FastAPI) and data sources (Snowflake), ensuring seamless data flow and functionality.
• Translate Requirements to UI: Convert product requirements, wireframes, and user stories into functional, responsive, and accessible web components. Implement UIs based on these inputs.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Write comprehensive unit and integration tests for front-end code, ensuring code quality, performance, and reliability.
• Collaborate & Innovate: Work closely with product managers and backend engineers, contributing to technical discussions and problem-solving to deliver polished user experiences.

Tech Stack Proficiency
• Strong command of TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Solid understanding of API integration (REST) and consuming backend services.
• Experience with front-end testing frameworks, including Playwright (end-to-end testing), Cypress (end-to-end and integration testing), Jest (unit and integration testing), and Testing Library (React Testing Library, Angular Testing Library, etc. for component testing).
• Experience using Figma for UI/UX design interpretation and implementation.

Who You Are
• A builder: You go from problem to prototype to production, closing gaps and creating real experiences.
• Craft-obsessed: You hold high standards for clean, performant, accessible UI- even when shipping quickly.
• Intuition-driven: You make smart architecture decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and move forward even with ambiguous requirements.
• GenAI-minded: You approach UI design and development from the perspective of GenAI applications, understanding how to create interfaces that best enable and represent GenAI functionality.
• Frontend-first with full-stack awareness: React is your primary tool, with strong Angular capabilities. You understand how frontend connects to backend services.
• Outcome-focused: You build around the user's real experience, with every component and interaction considered.

How You Operate
• Produce high-quality, impactful work that drives team success.
• Take full ownership-proactively identifying and addressing challenges.
• Collaborate openly through radical transparency, ensuring alignment and trust.

Required Skills
• Deep expertise in React (preferred) and Angular, including modern patterns, state management, and component architecture.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Extensive experience building and maintaining complex, production-grade web applications at scale.
• Proven ability to make sound tradeoffs between performance, maintainability, and delivery speed.
• Experience implementing frontend technical direction, standards, and best practices.
• Ability to architect, debug, and ship high-quality UI solutions.
• Strong communication skills-you can align engineers, designers, and stakeholders around a technical approach.
• Experience using Figma for UI/UX design interpretation and implementation.

Plus Skills
• Experience with Python for backend development or AI integration.
• GenAI skills: familiarity with GenAI APIs, prompt engineering, or building GenAI powered UI features.
• Experience building and scaling design systems or shared component libraries.
• Deep knowledge of frontend performance optimization, accessibility (WCAG), and responsive design.
• Experience with modern build tools, CI/CD pipelines, and frontend testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Testing Library).
• Excellent product instincts-partnering with product and design to shape what gets built, not just how.
• Ability to take a loosely defined business problem and drive it to a well-scoped technical solution.
• Track record of raising the bar for frontend engineering quality across a team (testing practices, observability, code review standards).
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms for frontend hosting and delivery (CloudFront, S3, etc.).
• Security engineering experience.
• Fintech or mortgage industry experience.
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments.

EEO
"Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of - Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans."