Front-End React Developer

SAIC; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC in Silver Spring, MD seeks an experienced Front-End React Developer to design, develop, test, and support a modern, secure, data-heavy enterprise web application. You will build responsive interfaces with React and collaborate with solution architects, backend AI/ML engineers, DevOps, QA, and business stakeholders.

The role emphasizes creating reusable components, dashboards, data tables, and complex forms, while ensuring accessibility and secure front-end practices in a Linux-based

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years front-end or web app development, including 3+ years React.
• Proficiency in React, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise web applications using React.
• Develop reusable, modular React components and responsive UIs.
• Implement client-side state management and data fetching for APIs.

Skills

React

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS3

REST APIs

SQL

Git

Unit testing

Linux

VS Code

Agile/Scrum

RBAC

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng/IS or equivalent

Tools

MariaDB/MySQL

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Front‑End React Developer to design, develop, test, and support a modern, secure, data‑intensive enterprise web application. The successful candidate will develop responsive, accessible, and maintainable user interfaces using React and will work closely with solution architects, backend developers, AI/ML engineers, DevOps engineers, QA personnel, and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise web applications using React.
• Develop reusable, modular, maintainable React components and responsive, accessible user interfaces.
• Develop interactive dashboards, complex forms, data tables, record‑detail screens, workflow interfaces, search, filtering, sorting, pagination, navigation, and saved views.
• Integrate React applications with RESTful APIs and backend services and implement appropriate client‑side state management and data‑fetching patterns.
• Implement role‑aware user experiences and support enterprise authentication and authorization, including SSO and MFA.
• Develop interfaces for AI‑generated or AI‑assisted content and support human review and approval workflows.
• Implement reporting, data visualization, and self‑service export functionality.
• Work with SQL/MariaDB relational data structures and write or understand SQL queries for development, testing, troubleshooting, and data validation.
• Translate requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and wireframes into production‑quality interfaces.
• Develop unit, component, and integration tests; participate in code reviews and maintain coding standards.
• Troubleshoot front‑end, browser, API integration, and application‑performance issues.
• Support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and production deployment.
• Work effectively in a Linux‑based development environment using VS Code, Git, package managers, build tools, debugging tools, and common shell utilities.
• Actively participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, estimation, and release activities.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner/Scrum team to refine user stories, define acceptance criteria, estimate work, and deliver committed sprint objectives.
• Develop and maintain appropriate technical documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional front‑end or web application development experience, including 3+ years of hands‑on React development.
• Strong proficiency in React, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Strong understanding of functional components, hooks, reusable component design, routing, state management, and modern React development patterns.
• Experience developing enterprise‑scale, data‑intensive web applications and dashboards and integrating them with RESTful APIs.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational database concepts; familiarity with MariaDB/MySQL tables, relationships, queries, views, and data structures.
• Experience with Git, automated front‑end testing, responsive design, cross‑browser compatibility, and secure front‑end development practices.
• Experience working in Linux‑based development environments and comfort with the Linux command line/shell, environment variables, file systems, permissions, logs, and common development utilities.
• Experience using Visual Studio Code (VS Code) or a comparable modern IDE for development, debugging, source control, linting, and code‑quality workflows.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, session management, and role‑based access concepts.
• Hands‑on experience working as part of an Agile/Scrum software development team, including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Strong analytical, debugging, problem‑solving, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with React Router and modern state/data‑management approaches.
• Experience with React Testing Library, Jest, Vitest, or comparable testing frameworks.
• Hands‑on experience working as part of an Agile/Scrum software development team, including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Experience with enterprise UI/component libraries and data‑visualization tools.
• Experience with Section 508/WCAG accessibility requirements.
• Experience with enterprise SSO/MFA, Microsoft 365, and/or SharePoint integrations.
• Experience developing workflow‑oriented applications and