[Remote] Senior Frontend React Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Modern Family Law is a fast-growing national family law firm building innovative technology products for legal services. The Senior Frontend React Engineer will own the frontend architecture and implementation of a greenfield product, translating designs into production experiences and developing complex, secure, accessible, and responsive workflows. The role also involves integrating APIs and AI-enabled capabilities, establishing testing practices, reviewing code, and guiding frontend development.

Responsibilities

• Own the 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, working closely with product and backend engineers to align design, workflow, and data requirements
• 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 clear client/server responsibilities
• Establish component architecture, state-management patterns, routing, form strategy and frontend conventions that support a maintainable application
• 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 how generated content, sources, confirmations, corrections, loading states and failures are presented to users
• Own frontend performance, accessibility, responsive behavior, browser support and production quality throughout development
• 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

Skills

• Production experience building React and TypeScript applications with complex user workflows
• Experience establishing frontend architecture for products with meaningful application state and significant integration with backend services
• 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
• Think architecturally and systematically
• Translate operational needs into scalable technical solutions
• Collaborate effectively across legal, operational, and technical teams
• Identify inefficiencies and design elegant workflow solutions
• Balance innovation, reliability, security, and operational scalability
• 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

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Work From Anywhere -- eligible after 6 months
• Performance incentives
• Full-time employees are eligible for health insurance with an optional Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Dental insurance
• Vision care
• Life insurance
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Vacation
• Sick time
• Employee assistance program
• Voluntary accident insurance
• Voluntary life insurance
• Voluntary disability
• Voluntary long-term care
• Voluntary critical illness and cancer insurance
• Pet insurance
• Commuter and transit benefit programs may also be available in certain markets

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