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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