Senior Front-End Engineer: React, TypeScript & Next.js

Accenture PLC; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 66,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Job summary

Accenture Song is seeking a hands-on web engineer to build modern digital products. You will own features from idea through production, collaborating with product, design, engineering, and client teams to translate business and user needs into high-quality software.

A strong foundation in React and TypeScript, plus API and cloud familiarity, is expected. You’ll work across web, mobile, and connected experiences, focusing on performance, accessibility, security, testing, and maintainability, with

Qualifications

• 2+ years professional software engineering experience building production web applications.
• Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and a modern front-end framework, preferably React.
• Experience building responsive, component-based user interfaces using HTML, CSS, and TypeScript.
• Experience developing or integrating applications with REST APIs or other modern API architectures.
• Experience with React concepts such as hooks, component composition, state management, routing, and asynchronous data handling.
• Experience with modern front-end build and development tooling.
• Experience writing automated tests and working with unit, integration, or end-to-end testing frameworks.
• Experience with Git, pull requests, code reviews, and collaborative software development workflows.
• Understanding of responsive design, accessibility, web performance, and secure development practices.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Ability to travel as needed based on client or project requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build modern, responsive web apps using React and TypeScript.
• Develop reusable components, hooks, and patterns for maintainability.
• Translate requirements into accessible, high-performing digital experiences.
• Integrate with REST, GraphQL, and other APIs architectures.
• Develop backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Own features from discovery through deployment and production support.
• Apply modern React patterns for composition, state, data fetching, and rendering.
• Write automated tests with Vitest, Jest, RTL, Playwright, or Cypress.
• Use tooling like Vite, Next.js, Storybook, ESLint, npm, pnpm, Yarn, Nx, Turborepo.
• Collaborate with UX designers and contribute to design systems.
• Apply accessibility standards and WCAG guidance.
• Improve performance via code splitting, lazy loading, caching, and Core Web Vitals.
• Apply secure coding, privacy, and dependency-management practices.
• Contribute to CI/CD, cloud deployments, monitoring and observability.
• Participate in PRs, architecture discussions, and solution estimation.
• Work with clients and cross-functional teams to clarify requirements.
• Communicate technical approaches and progress clearly to stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code reviews.
• Work in Agile product teams and adapt to changing technologies and client environments.

Skills

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Node.js

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

Vite

Job description

Accenture Song is seeking a hands-on web engineer to build modern digital products. You will own features from idea through production, collaborating with product, design, engineering, and client teams to translate business and user needs into high-quality software.

A strong foundation in React and TypeScript, plus API and cloud familiarity, is expected. You’ll work across web, mobile, and connected experiences, focusing on performance, accessibility, security, testing, and maintainability, with