Senior React Engineer – AI-Driven Legal Tech (Remote)

Modern Family Law; Savannah (GA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan (401k)

Paid Time Off

Life Insurance

Training & Development

Work From Anywhere after 6 months

Job summary

Modern Family Law is hiring a Senior Frontend React Engineer to own the frontend architecture of a new AI-enabled family law product. You will translate designs into production-ready experiences, drive multi-step workflows, and collaborate with backend engineers to define API contracts and data structures.

The role focuses on secure, role-aware interfaces, performance, accessibility, and maintainable frontend patterns, with a strong emphasis on testing and code quality as the team grows.

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

Testing practices

Code review

Accessibility

Performance optimization

Security/identity

Tools

Vite

Job description

Modern Family Law is hiring a Senior Frontend React Engineer to own the frontend architecture of a new AI-enabled family law product. You will translate designs into production-ready experiences, drive multi-step workflows, and collaborate with backend engineers to define API contracts and data structures.

The role focuses on secure, role-aware interfaces, performance, accessibility, and maintainable frontend patterns, with a strong emphasis on testing and code quality as the team grows.