Senior Frontend React Engineer

About this role

• We're building the future of legal services.
• Modern Family Law, a fast-growing national law firm specializing in family law, is seeking a Senior Frontend React Engineer.
• We are building a new technology product for family law, where the quality of the user experience matters because clients and attorneys will rely on it for real legal workflows.
• This is a greenfield build integrating enterprise systems, payments, data and AI capabilities, and the frontend architecture established in this role will support the product as it grows.
• **What you will own** * 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.
• **The Stack** **Client application** React and TypeScript.
• **Build tooling** Vite.
• **Frontend architecture** Component architecture, application state, routing, forms, validation, error handling, and reusable design patterns.
• **API integration** The frontend integrates through API contracts owned by the **Senior Backend API Engineer**, working closely with the **Senior Backend Platform Engineer** on the underlying domain services and application data.
• **Identity and security** Role-aware experiences and secure handling of sensitive client information.
• Backend services are authoritative for authentication and authorization enforcement.
• **AI-enabled experiences** The product incorporates AI, retrieval and knowledge services.
• You do not need to be an ML engineer, but you should understand how to design clear, reliable interfaces around AI-enabled workflows.
• **Quality** Accessibility, performance, responsive behavior, browser compatibility and automated frontend testing.
• **Requirements** **Minimum Qualifications** * **You must reside within a commutable distance to one of our offices in CA or WA (San Jose, Oakland, Seattle, Bellevue, or Everett).** * 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.
• **Preferred Qualifications** * Experience designing frontend experiences for AI-enabled workflows.
• * Experience building payment, client intake, or other state-sensitive workflows.
• * Experience working with sensitive client data or in a regulated environment.
• * Experience working closely with product and design teams to translate prototypes into production applications.
• * Legal industry or legal technology experience.
• **Characteristics of the Ideal Candidate** The ideal candidate is a systems builder who enjoys solving complex operational problems through thoughtful engineering and intelligent automation.
• They are highly organized, technically curious, operationally minded, and energized by the opportunity to help redesign legal service delivery through scalable AI infrastructure and workflow systems.
• **This individual should possess the ability to:** * Think architecturally and systematically.
• * Translate operational needs into scalable technical solutions.
• * Collaborate effectively across legal, operational, and technical teams.
• * Identify inefficiencies and design elegant workflow solutions.
• * Balance innovation, reliability, security, and operational scalability.
• **Compensation & Benefits** Modern Family Law offers highly competitive compensation, performance incentives, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to help shape one of the nation's most innovative family law organizations.
• Compensation will be commensurate with technical capability, engineering sophistication, operational impact, and strategic contribution.
• **About Modern Family Law** Modern Family Law is one of the nation's leading family law firms, focused on combining exceptional legal representation with innovation, technology, and client-centered service.
• The firm is actively exploring AI-native legal workflows, advanced client experience systems, and new models for increasing accessibility, efficiency, and scalability within legal services.
• We believe the future of law belongs to organizations capable of combining outstanding legal talent with thoughtful technological innovation.
• **ADA Compliance:** All candidates and incumbents are expected to perform the duties as assigned so long as they can meet the expectations set forth with or without reasonable accommodations.
• Should a candidate or incumbent require accommodation, they need to advise the Director of People & Culture in advance.
• ***Compensation:*** $130,000 - $145,000 annually.
• **This range is a reliable estimate of the base salary plus projected bonuses and billable hour commission that this individual is expected to receive**.
• Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience, location, billable hour expectations, and other job-related factors as permitted by law.
• Full-time employees are eligible for health insurance with an optional Health Savings Account (HSA), short-term disability, long-term disability, dental insurance, vision care, life insurance, Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, 401(k) Retirement Plan, vacation, sick time, and an employee assistance program.
• Additional voluntary programs include voluntary accident insurance, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability, voluntary long-term care, voluntary critical illness and cancer insurance, and pet insurance.
• Commuter and transit benefit programs may also be available in certain markets.
• **Benefits** * Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) * Retirement Plan (401k, IRA) * Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) * Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) * Short Term & Long Term Disability * Training & Development Work From Anywhere* - eligible after 6 monthshttps://modern-family-law-1.workable.com/backend/jobs/5910536/app-form

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