Remote React Engineer - Front-End Transformation Lead

GovCIO; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EAP

Corporate discounts

Learning & Development platform

Certification assistance

Referral bonus

Internal mobility

Pet insurance

Flexible work environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking an experienced React Software Engineer to rebuild customer-facing applications and lead a modernization from a Spring Boot/Thymeleaf backend to a decoupled front-end platform. You will define architecture, standards, and development practices while collaborating with architects, backend teams, DevOps, security, and product teams in a fully remote US-based role.

You will own front-end design, implement modern UI components, ensure accessibility and performance, and help build

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years building production applications with React.
• Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of modern front-end architecture and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of modern customer-facing web applications using React and TypeScript.
• Help define the future front-end architecture, including component libraries, state management, routing, authentication, and API integration patterns.
• Modernize legacy applications by migrating from server-rendered Spring Boot/Thymeleaf applications to a decoupled front-end architecture.
• Collaborate with backend teams to build clean REST and GraphQL APIs that support modern web experiences.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, accessibility, performance, and security.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for front-end applications within a DevSecOps environment.
• Integrate automated testing, static analysis, dependency scanning, and security validation into the development lifecycle.
• Champion reusable UI components, shared design systems, and consistent engineering practices across applications.
• Mentor engineers and help grow modern front-end development capabilities across the team.
• Evaluate emerging front-end technologies and recommend solutions that improve developer productivity and user experience.

Skills

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Front-end architecture

State management

REST/GraphQL

Accessibility WCAG

Testing (Jest/RTL/Cypress/Playwright)

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Redux

Zustand

React Query

OpenShift

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI

Job description

GovCIO is seeking an experienced React Software Engineer to rebuild customer-facing applications and lead a modernization from a Spring Boot/Thymeleaf backend to a decoupled front-end platform. You will define architecture, standards, and development practices while collaborating with architects, backend teams, DevOps, security, and product teams in a fully remote US-based role.

You will own front-end design, implement modern UI components, ensure accessibility and performance, and help build