Senior React Architect | Remote Front-End Lead

GovCIO; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EAP

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Education and Certification

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a React Software Engineer to rebuild customer-facing applications from the ground up, delivering a modern front-end platform decoupled from backend services. This role emphasizes architecture, standards, and secure DevSecOps practices for scalable web applications.

You will collaborate with architects, backend teams, and product groups to migrate from legacy systems to a modern React/TypeScript stack, establish reusable components, and raise the bar on performance and security

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of modern customer-facing web applications using React and TypeScript.
• 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

REST/GraphQL APIs

State management

Testing (Jest/RTL/Cypress/Playwright)

CI/CD

Agile

Security & DevSecOps

Front-end architecture

Accessibility (WCAG)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Redux

Zustand

React Query/TanStack

OpenShift

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a React Software Engineer to rebuild customer-facing applications from the ground up, delivering a modern front-end platform decoupled from backend services. This role emphasizes architecture, standards, and secure DevSecOps practices for scalable web applications.

You will collaborate with architects, backend teams, and product groups to migrate from legacy systems to a modern React/TypeScript stack, establish reusable components, and raise the bar on performance and security