Front-End Engineer: Accessible UI & React Design Systems

NextGig; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NextGig in Washington, DC is hiring a Front-End Developer to join a cross-functional team focused on accessible, high-performance interfaces. You will work with designers, researchers, content specialists, back-end engineers, security teams, and end users to deliver robust UI components and patterns.

You will build pages, design-system components, and patterns in React, implement complex forms and workflows, and integrate APIs with thoughtful loading and error states while maintaining

Qualifications

• Knowledge of building accessible interfaces and ARIA patterns.
• Understanding of WCAG and keyboard interactions.
• Ability to diagnose rendering, performance, and security issues on the client side.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers, researchers, content specialists, back-end engineers, security teams, and users.
• Build pages, component libraries, and design-system implementations in a modern framework.
• Implement forms, navigation, tables, dashboards, search, and complex stateful workflows.
• Create API integrations with clear loading, empty, success, validation, and error states.
• Ensure accessible interactions with semantic markup and keyboard support.

Skills

React frontend

Component architecture

Forms and routing

API integration

Tools

React

Job description

NextGig in Washington, DC is hiring a Front-End Developer to join a cross-functional team focused on accessible, high-performance interfaces. You will work with designers, researchers, content specialists, back-end engineers, security teams, and end users to deliver robust UI components and patterns.

You will build pages, design-system components, and patterns in React, implement complex forms and workflows, and integrate APIs with thoughtful loading and error states while maintaining