Lead Frontend Engineer — React/TypeScript, AI & Greenfield

Modern Family Law; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan (401k)

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Disability Insurance (Short/Long)

Training & Development

Work From Anywhere

Job summary

Modern Family Law is seeking a Senior Frontend React Engineer to lead the frontend architecture and build production-ready experiences in React and TypeScript for a new greenfield product. You will collaborate with product and backend teams to integrate APIs, design multi-step workflows, ensure accessibility, security, and performance, and guide a growing frontend team.

The role emphasizes high-quality, scalable frontend patterns, secure handling of sensitive client information, and the

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the frontend architecture and implementation of the product in React and TypeScript, from shared components and application structure through production workflows.
• Translate designs into production-ready experiences, aligning with product and backend engineers to ensure cohesive data flows.
• Own frontend patterns for complex multi-step workflows, including forms, 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.

Job description

Modern Family Law is seeking a Senior Frontend React Engineer to lead the frontend architecture and build production-ready experiences in React and TypeScript for a new greenfield product. You will collaborate with product and backend teams to integrate APIs, design multi-step workflows, ensure accessibility, security, and performance, and guide a growing frontend team.

The role emphasizes high-quality, scalable frontend patterns, secure handling of sensitive client information, and the