Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking a Lead Front-End Engineer for the U.S. Transportation Command Global Freight Management modernization team. The role provides hands-on technical leadership while designing, building, and maintaining enterprise web applications and mentoring developers.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain complex enterprise web applications using React, TypeScript, and Material UI (MUI)
- Lead front-end architecture and establish development patterns that support scalability, consistency, security, and long-term maintainability
- Develop reusable components, shared utilities, and design-system-aligned solutions
- Implement responsive, accessible, and user-friendly interfaces that accurately reflect UX designs and product requirements
- Collaborate with UX designers to refine workflows, interactions, layouts, and visual details
- Modernize legacy functionality while preserving critical business capabilities
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers
- Conduct code reviews and promote standards for code quality, testing, accessibility, performance, and maintainability
- Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, retrospectives, and release planning
- Work with product owners and functional analysts to translate business needs into actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical tasks
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, architectural concerns, and implementation tradeoffs early in the development process
- Design and consume RESTful APIs and collaborate with back-end engineers on API contracts and data models
- Write and troubleshoot SQL queries to investigate issues, validate functionality, and support development activities
- Support automated testing, CI/CD integration, deployment, troubleshooting, and production support
- Communicate technical recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Independently lead features from initial requirements through deployment and production support
Skills
- Authorized to work within the United States
- Ability to obtain Secret Security Clearance
- Ability to obtain CompTIA Security+ certification
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- Seven or more years of professional software-development experience
- Five or more years of experience building production applications with React
- Three or more years of experience developing enterprise applications with TypeScript
- Strong experience with Material UI (MUI), including theming, component customization, responsive design, and design-system implementation
- Demonstrated experience leading technical efforts and mentoring software engineers
- Strong knowledge of modern front-end architecture, component-based design, HTML, CSS, responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility
- Experience integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs
- Experience with automated testing, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD practices
- Experience participating in Agile planning, estimation, backlog refinement, and story development
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, designers, analysts, product owners, and stakeholders in a remote team environment
- Experience with Java, Spring Boot, SQL, and back-end API or service development
- Experience creating, maintaining, or governing reusable component libraries and design systems
- Experience with front-end testing frameworks and test-automation practices
- Experience applying WCAG 2.1 and Section 508 accessibility standards
- Experience optimizing front-end application performance and modernizing legacy enterprise applications
- Experience supporting Department of Defense or other federal government programs
- Active Secret security clearance
- Active CompTIA Security+ certification
Benefits
- Fully remote.
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