Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

SELARA; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Selara is hiring frontend engineers to work on VA.gov, the digital front door for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The frontend is a large, long-lived React codebase, and you will build user-facing features using modern patterns and TypeScript.

This fully remote role within the United States involves collaborating with a distributed team, applying accessibility standards, testing rigor, and contributing to migrations that scale the frontend platform.

Qualifications

• Experience building production React applications using modern patterns.
• Fluency in TypeScript and current JavaScript tooling.
• Track record shipping accessible interfaces with accessibility as a requirement.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship user-facing features in the VA.gov frontend.
• Write modern React using function components, hooks, and TypeScript.
• Migrate older class components and Redux patterns toward modern standards.
• Integrate with REST APIs and handle loading, error, and offline states.
• Strengthen test coverage with component tests and end-to-end tests.
• Review code, improve CI feedback, and collaborate with a distributed team.
• At staff level, set technical direction and mentor engineers.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Accessibility

REST APIs

Testing

GitHub CI

Communication

Team leadership (staff level)

Tools

React

TypeScript

Playwright

Cypress

GitHub

Job description

About the role

Selara is hiring frontend engineers to work on VA.gov, the digital front doorfor the Department of Veterans Affairs. The features you ship reach millionsof Veterans who use VA.gov to apply for benefits, manage their health care,and track their claims. The frontend is a large, long-lived React codebase,and part of the job is moving it forward, not just adding to it.

This is one posting for two levels. We calibrate senior against staff duringthe interview process based on the scope you have owned and the impact youhave driven.

What you'll do

• Build and ship user-facing features in the VA.gov frontend
• Write modern React as your default, using function components, hooks, andTypeScript, and help migrate older class components and Redux patternstoward that standard
• Compose interfaces from the VA Design System so every experience isconsistent, responsive, and meets WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508
• Integrate against REST APIs served by the VA.gov platform and handleloading, error, and offline states honestly
• Strengthen test coverage with component tests and browser-level end-to-endtests, and leave the suites faster and more trustworthy than you found them
• Review code, improve CI feedback loops, and share context generously with adistributed team
• At the staff level, set technical direction across teams, mentor seniorengineers, and drive migrations that outlast any single feature

What we're looking for

• Deep experience building production React applications, with modernpatterns as your starting point rather than your aspiration
• Fluency in TypeScript and current JavaScript tooling
• A track record of shipping accessible interfaces and treating accessibilityas a requirement, not a cleanup task
• Experience integrating with and debugging against REST APIs
• Strong testing instincts across unit, component, and end-to-end layers
• Comfort with Git-based collaboration, code review, and CI on GitHub
• Clear written communication in a remote, distributed team
• For staff, a history of leading architecture decisions and raising theengineering bar beyond your own commits

Nice to have

• Experience with VA.gov, the vets-website codebase, or another largecivic-tech frontend
• Familiarity with the US Web Design System or another mature design system
• Experience with Playwright or Cypress at scale
• Federal delivery experience, including working under a Public Trust

Location and eligibility

This role is fully remote within the United States. Work on VA.gov requiresthe ability to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust suitabilitydetermination, which includes a background investigation.

About Selara

Selara is a Veteran-led digital services company. We build modern, accessiblesoftware for the public sector, and we hold our own work to the same standardwe set for the services Veterans rely on.