Senior Frontend Engineer - Hashicorp Vault

HITEC; City of Poughkeepsie (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software in New York seeks an experienced Senior Frontend Engineer to design, prototype and implement UI features for on-premise and cloud-based software. You will collaborate with Product Design, Product Management and engineers, lead large frontend initiatives, and mentor teammates while upholding security-focused, high-quality code.

You should have 8+ years in frontend development, strong TS/React experience, and a track record of testing and design-system work in production environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional frontend experience with modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and React, Angular, Vue, or similar.
• Experience with testing and API mocking (Jest, Vitest, Playwright, Puppeteer; MSW/Mirage).

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype and implement UI features for on-premise and cloud software.
• Collaborate with Product Design, Product Management and engineers.
• Lead frontend projects including dynamic form generation and design system migrations.
• Debug, optimize performance, and resolve security vulnerabilities.
• Mentor frontend engineers and promote best practices.
• Maintain high code quality with end-to-end testing.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Frontend frameworks

UI collaboration

Testing strategies

RESTful APIs

OpenAPI/Swagger

Security-conscious UI

Mentoring

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

React

Angular

Vue

Ember

OpenAPI/Swagger

Jest

Vitest

Playwright

Puppeteer

MSW/Mirage

Job description

Additional Cities: Poughkeepsie, Lowell, Rochester, Tucson, Research Triangle Park, Armonk, Bellevue, Atlanta, San Jose, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, New York

Additional States: Georgia, Minnesota, Texas, New York, North Carolina, Arizona, Washington, Massachusetts, California

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'l have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

• Design, prototype and implement UI features while ensuring stability and usability for on-premise/self-managed and cloud-based software
• Collaborate closely with Product Design and Product Management partners, as well as engineers on your team and others
• Act as a subject matter expert on frontend development with emphasis on TypeScript, modern component architectures, and security-conscious UI patterns
• Work with highly technical backend systems and implement interfaces that make advanced functionality understandable and accessible to a broad range of users
• Lead and execute large-scale frontend projects, including OpenAPI-driven dynamic form generation, design system migrations, and modular architecture patterns
• Debug and resolve complex UI issues, including API integration, performance optimization, and security vulnerabilities
• Advocate for strategic technical roadmap initiatives, or improvements to team process that enhance the system's overall effectiveness across teams and the organization
• Mentor and guide frontend engineers, sharing technical knowledge and promoting best practices in development processes
• Maintain high code quality through comprehensive testing from development to deployment

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 8+ years of professional experience building and maintaining frontend applications using modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and hands-on experience with at least one major frontend framework such as React, Angular, Vue, Ember, or a comparable technology.
• Proven track record of leading or contributing to large-scale frontend initiatives, including framework migrations, design system implementations, and data-layer modernization efforts in production environments.
• Experience developing and maintaining comprehensive testing strategies, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing using tools such as Jest, Vitest, Playwright, and Puppeteer, as well as API mocking and service virtualization frameworks like MSW, Mirage, or similar solutions.
• Solid experience integrating with RESTful APIs, designing reusable service layers, implementing robust error handling, and working with OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Hands-on production experience with React 18+, including component architecture, state management, routing, application performance optimization, and modern frontend build technologies such as Vite, Webpack, or comparable tooling.
• Strong understanding of frontend build and dependency management ecosystems, including tools such as Webpack, Vite, npm, Yarn, and pnpm.
• Experience developing secure, user-focused applications with a security-first mindset, including implementation of Content Security Policy (CSP), XSS mitigation, secure authentication and authorization patterns (OIDC, SAML, MFA), and the protection of sensitive data within frontend applications.

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IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• - Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• - Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• - Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• - Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• - Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.