{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8bb86a32064000528e4c661c","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8bb86a32064000528e4c661c","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8bb86a32064000528e4c661c","title":"Senior React Engineer","description":"Why AIS?\n\nWhen you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.\n\nEmployee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.\n\nContinuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.\n\nInclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.\n\nMission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.\n\nWhat are we looking for?\n\nAt AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.\n\nWhat you will be doing?\n\nThis position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.\n\nAt AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Software Architect.\n\nCore Knowledge & Skills: Makes platform and tooling decisions, translates requirements into architecture, designs enterprise-level infrastructure, leads agile ceremonies, and participates in workforce screening and fit.\n\nWork & Complexity: Delivers highly creative solutions to complex problems, sets evaluation criteria, and provides technical direction across projects.\n\nQuality & Independence: Manages priorities and scope with clients, streamlines operations, and anticipates needs to deliver exceptional speed, accuracy, and value.\n\nTeamwork & Communication: Serves as prime contact for significant matters, briefs leaders and clients on new subjects, and coordinates multidisciplinary teams.\n\nConsulting & Engagement: Retains clients, pushes back constructively when needed, represents the firm at major events, and shapes roadmaps aligned to business goals.\n\nAs your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior React Engineer.\n\nProject Summary\n\nAIS is seeking a Senior React Developer/Engineer to design, build, secure, and sustain modern web applications supporting high-visibility federal defense missions. The engineer will serve as a senior technical contributor on a Messaging Document Repository, a Department of Defense Impact Level 5 solution that manages Controlled Unclassified Information, multi-tier executive clearance workflows, controlled repository access, and auditable dissemination to authorized congressional users.\n\nThe ideal candidate combines advanced React and TypeScript expertise with strong software-engineering judgment, accessibility and usability awareness, secure API integration experience, automated testing discipline, and the ability to deliver in regulated cloud environments. This role works closely with product owners, UX specialists, backend engineers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and government stakeholders to translate complex operational and security requirements into reliable, intuitive user experiences.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign and develop responsive, accessible, and maintainable React applications using TypeScript and modern component-based patterns.\nDefine frontend architecture, reusable component libraries, routing, state-management, form-validation, and error-handling standards.\nBuild intuitive interfaces for document ingestion, metadata capture, multi-echelon review, concurrence and non-concurrence decisions, access requests, repository search, and administrative management.\nImplement complex workflow experiences that clearly represent package status, approval gates, required comments, validation rules, and exception paths.\nOptimize rendering, bundle size, network usage, and client-side behavior to meet performance objectives for directory lookups, repository searches, and mission workflows.\nSecure Integration and Identity\nIntegrate frontend applications with secure REST or GraphQL APIs, identity services, document repositories, notification services, and audit capabilities.\nImplement role- and attribute-aware user experiences consistent with Attribute-Based Access Control, least privilege, and Zero Trust principles.\nSupport DISA PKI and mutual TLS authentication flows, session handling, authorization failures, sanitized error states, and secure deep-link behavior.\nEnsure protected document names, metadata, file paths, contact details, and other sensitive information are not exposed to unauthorized or unauthenticated users.\nApply secure coding practices for input validation, output encoding, dependency management, secrets handling, and mitigation of common web vulnerabilities.\nQuality Engineering and DevSecOps\nDevelop unit, component, integration, accessibility, and end-to-end tests using appropriate modern testing frameworks.\nParticipate in peer reviews, architecture discussions, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, and release-readiness activities.\nBuild and maintain automated quality gates in CI/CD pipelines, including linting, static analysis, dependency scanning, test execution, and production build validation.\nTroubleshoot complex browser, authentication, API, performance, and environment-specific defects across development, test, staging, and production environments.\nCreate technical designs, interface specifications, runbooks, engineering standards, and support documentation needed for secure operations and RMF evidence.\nTechnical Leadership and Consulting\nOperate with significant autonomy on complex assignments while aligning technical decisions with customer mission, security, schedule, and maintainability needs.\nTranslate operational requirements and UX concepts into implementation plans, technical tasks, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.\nMentor less-experienced engineers, establish development conventions, and provide actionable code-review feedback.\nCommunicate technical risks, tradeoffs, dependencies, and recommendations clearly to engineering teams and government stakeholders.\nContribute to Agile planning, demonstrations, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.\n\nRequired For This Opportunity\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.\nTypically five or more years of professional software-engineering experience, including substantial hands-on development with React.\nAdvanced proficiency with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, semantic HTML, modern CSS, and responsive web design.\nExperience designing reusable components, custom hooks, frontend architecture, and scalable state-management patterns such as Redux Toolkit, React Query, Zustand, or equivalent.\nExperience integrating secure APIs and working with asynchronous data, authentication, authorization, file upload and download, search, and workflow-driven applications.\nStrong knowledge of automated testing with tools such as Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, or equivalent.\nProficiency with Git-based development, pull-request workflows, package management, CI/CD pipelines, and modern frontend build tooling.\nDemonstrated understanding of web security, OWASP risks, accessibility standards, browser behavior, and application performance optimization.\nAbility to communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and independently resolve complex engineering problems.\nAbility to obtain and maintain the security clearance and access required by the customer.\nNice to Have Skills\nExperience with Next.js or another production React framework.\nExperience delivering applications in Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, or Department of Defense Impact Level 4, 5, or 6 environments.\nKnowledge of CUI handling, NIST SP 800-53, RMF, DISA guidance, FIPS-validated cryptography, Zero Trust, or Authority to Operate processes.\nExperience with Public Key Infrastructure, client-certificate authentication, mutual TLS, enterprise identity platforms, or claims-based authorization.\nExperience integrating with SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Azure services, search platforms, document-management systems, or workflow engines.\nExperience with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, feature flags, observability, and frontend telemetry.\nExperience designing accessible applications aligned with Section 508 and WCAG.\nExperience supporting federal defense, intelligence, Army, or other regulated government customers.\nActive U.S. Government Secret clearance or higher.\nSecurity+ or relevant Microsoft Azure certification.\n\nThis role is central to AIS’s delivery of secure, mission-focused digital solutions. The Senior React Developer/Engineer will help modernize a critical messaging and document-clearance capability by creating dependable user experiences that protect sensitive information, enforce approved workflows, improve transparency, and support continuous auditability in a highly regulated environment.\n\nAt AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member.\n\nThe targeted base salary range for this role is $136,000-$205,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location.\n\nWe value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.\n\nApplied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. 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You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.\n\nEmployee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.\n\nContinuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.\n\nInclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.\n\nMission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.\n\nWhat are we looking for?\n\nAt AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.\n\nWhat you will be doing?\n\nThis position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.\n\nAt AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Software Architect.\n\nCore Knowledge & Skills: Makes platform and tooling decisions, translates requirements into architecture, designs enterprise-level infrastructure, leads agile ceremonies, and participates in workforce screening and fit.\n\nWork & Complexity: Delivers highly creative solutions to complex problems, sets evaluation criteria, and provides technical direction across projects.\n\nQuality & Independence: Manages priorities and scope with clients, streamlines operations, and anticipates needs to deliver exceptional speed, accuracy, and value.\n\nTeamwork & Communication: Serves as prime contact for significant matters, briefs leaders and clients on new subjects, and coordinates multidisciplinary teams.\n\nConsulting & Engagement: Retains clients, pushes back constructively when needed, represents the firm at major events, and shapes roadmaps aligned to business goals.\n\nAs your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior React Engineer.\n\nProject Summary\n\nAIS is seeking a Senior React Developer/Engineer to design, build, secure, and sustain modern web applications supporting high-visibility federal defense missions. The engineer will serve as a senior technical contributor on a Messaging Document Repository, a Department of Defense Impact Level 5 solution that manages Controlled Unclassified Information, multi-tier executive clearance workflows, controlled repository access, and auditable dissemination to authorized congressional users.\n\nThe ideal candidate combines advanced React and TypeScript expertise with strong software-engineering judgment, accessibility and usability awareness, secure API integration experience, automated testing discipline, and the ability to deliver in regulated cloud environments. This role works closely with product owners, UX specialists, backend engineers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and government stakeholders to translate complex operational and security requirements into reliable, intuitive user experiences.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign and develop responsive, accessible, and maintainable React applications using TypeScript and modern component-based patterns.\nDefine frontend architecture, reusable component libraries, routing, state-management, form-validation, and error-handling standards.\nBuild intuitive interfaces for document ingestion, metadata capture, multi-echelon review, concurrence and non-concurrence decisions, access requests, repository search, and administrative management.\nImplement complex workflow experiences that clearly represent package status, approval gates, required comments, validation rules, and exception paths.\nOptimize rendering, bundle size, network usage, and client-side behavior to meet performance objectives for directory lookups, repository searches, and mission workflows.\nSecure Integration and Identity\nIntegrate frontend applications with secure REST or GraphQL APIs, identity services, document repositories, notification services, and audit capabilities.\nImplement role- and attribute-aware user experiences consistent with Attribute-Based Access Control, least privilege, and Zero Trust principles.\nSupport DISA PKI and mutual TLS authentication flows, session handling, authorization failures, sanitized error states, and secure deep-link behavior.\nEnsure protected document names, metadata, file paths, contact details, and other sensitive information are not exposed to unauthorized or unauthenticated users.\nApply secure coding practices for input validation, output encoding, dependency management, secrets handling, and mitigation of common web vulnerabilities.\nQuality Engineering and DevSecOps\nDevelop unit, component, integration, accessibility, and end-to-end tests using appropriate modern testing frameworks.\nParticipate in peer reviews, architecture discussions, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, and release-readiness activities.\nBuild and maintain automated quality gates in CI/CD pipelines, including linting, static analysis, dependency scanning, test execution, and production build validation.\nTroubleshoot complex browser, authentication, API, performance, and environment-specific defects across development, test, staging, and production environments.\nCreate technical designs, interface specifications, runbooks, engineering standards, and support documentation needed for secure operations and RMF evidence.\nTechnical Leadership and Consulting\nOperate with significant autonomy on complex assignments while aligning technical decisions with customer mission, security, schedule, and maintainability needs.\nTranslate operational requirements and UX concepts into implementation plans, technical tasks, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.\nMentor less-experienced engineers, establish development conventions, and provide actionable code-review feedback.\nCommunicate technical risks, tradeoffs, dependencies, and recommendations clearly to engineering teams and government stakeholders.\nContribute to Agile planning, demonstrations, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.\n\nRequired For This Opportunity\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.\nTypically five or more years of professional software-engineering experience, including substantial hands-on development with React.\nAdvanced proficiency with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, semantic HTML, modern CSS, and responsive web design.\nExperience designing reusable components, custom hooks, frontend architecture, and scalable state-management patterns such as Redux Toolkit, React Query, Zustand, or equivalent.\nExperience integrating secure APIs and working with asynchronous data, authentication, authorization, file upload and download, search, and workflow-driven applications.\nStrong knowledge of automated testing with tools such as Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, or equivalent.\nProficiency with Git-based development, pull-request workflows, package management, CI/CD pipelines, and modern frontend build tooling.\nDemonstrated understanding of web security, OWASP risks, accessibility standards, browser behavior, and application performance optimization.\nAbility to communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and independently resolve complex engineering problems.\nAbility to obtain and maintain the security clearance and access required by the customer.\nNice to Have Skills\nExperience with Next.js or another production React framework.\nExperience delivering applications in Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, or Department of Defense Impact Level 4, 5, or 6 environments.\nKnowledge of CUI handling, NIST SP 800-53, RMF, DISA guidance, FIPS-validated cryptography, Zero Trust, or Authority to Operate processes.\nExperience with Public Key Infrastructure, client-certificate authentication, mutual TLS, enterprise identity platforms, or claims-based authorization.\nExperience integrating with SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Azure services, search platforms, document-management systems, or workflow engines.\nExperience with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, feature flags, observability, and frontend telemetry.\nExperience designing accessible applications aligned with Section 508 and WCAG.\nExperience supporting federal defense, intelligence, Army, or other regulated government customers.\nActive U.S. Government Secret clearance or higher.\nSecurity+ or relevant Microsoft Azure certification.\n\nThis role is central to AIS’s delivery of secure, mission-focused digital solutions. The Senior React Developer/Engineer will help modernize a critical messaging and document-clearance capability by creating dependable user experiences that protect sensitive information, enforce approved workflows, improve transparency, and support continuous auditability in a highly regulated environment.\n\nAt AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member.\n\nThe targeted base salary range for this role is $136,000-$205,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location.\n\nWe value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.\n\nApplied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. 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