Senior Frontend Engineer (React/TS) for AI Legal Platform

Modern Family Law; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Work From Anywhere after 6 months

Training & Development

Job summary

Modern Family Law is building a new technology product for family law with a focus on exceptional user experience for clients and attorneys. You will own the frontend architecture in React and TypeScript, translating designs into production-ready interfaces and shaping patterns for complex workflows.

This greenfield project integrates AI capabilities and enterprise systems, with a strong emphasis on accessibility, performance, and secure handling of sensitive client information.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own the frontend architecture and implementation of the product in React and TypeScript, from shared components and application structure through production workflows.
• Translate product designs and interactive prototypes into production-ready user experiences, working closely with product and backend engineers to align design, workflow, and data requirements.
• Own frontend patterns for complex multi-step workflows, including forms, conditional logic, 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.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend architecture

Multi-step workflows

API contracts

Accessibility

Performance

Automated testing

Code reviews

Greenfield product

Tools

Vite

Job description

Modern Family Law is building a new technology product for family law with a focus on exceptional user experience for clients and attorneys. You will own the frontend architecture in React and TypeScript, translating designs into production-ready interfaces and shaping patterns for complex workflows.

This greenfield project integrates AI capabilities and enterprise systems, with a strong emphasis on accessibility, performance, and secure handling of sensitive client information.