Lead Front-End Engineer (React, TypeScript and MUI)

Overview

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking a Lead Front-End Engineer to join our U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) Global Freight Management (GFM) modernization team. This hands-on technical leadership role is ideal for an experienced React and TypeScript engineer who can deliver high-quality software, guide front-end technical direction, and mentor other developers.

The Lead Front-End Engineer will collaborate with product owners, functional analysts, UX designers, developers, testers, DevSecOps engineers, and government stakeholders to translate complex requirements into accessible, responsive, and maintainable enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate combines deep front-end expertise with sound technical judgment, attention to user experience, and a practical approach to balancing engineering quality with delivery priorities.

This position is fully remote.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain complex enterprise web applications using React, TypeScript, and Material UI (MUI).
• Lead front-end architecture and establish development patterns that support scalability, consistency, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Develop reusable components, shared utilities, and design-system-aligned solutions.
• Implement responsive, accessible, and user-friendly interfaces that accurately reflect UX designs and product requirements.
• Collaborate with UX designers to refine workflows, interactions, layouts, and visual details.
• Modernize legacy functionality while preserving critical business capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.
• Conduct code reviews and promote standards for code quality, testing, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Work with product owners and functional analysts to translate business needs into actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical tasks.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, architectural concerns, and implementation tradeoffs early in the development process.
• Design and consume RESTful APIs and collaborate with back-end engineers on API contracts and data models.
• Write and troubleshoot SQL queries to investigate issues, validate functionality, and support development activities.
• Support automated testing, CI/CD integration, deployment, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Communicate technical recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Independently lead features from initial requirements through deployment and production support.

Qualifications

Required:

• Authorized to work within the United States.
• Ability to obtain Secret Security Clearance.
• Ability to obtain CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Seven or more years of professional software-development experience.
• Five or more years of experience building production applications with React.
• Three or more years of experience developing enterprise applications with TypeScript.
• Strong experience with Material UI (MUI), including theming, component customization, responsive design, and design-system implementation.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical efforts and mentoring software engineers.
• Strong knowledge of modern front-end architecture, component-based design, HTML, CSS, responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Experience integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs.
• Experience with automated testing, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience participating in Agile planning, estimation, backlog refinement, and story development.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, designers, analysts, product owners, and stakeholders in a remote team environment.

Preferred:

• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, SQL, and back-end API or service development.
• Experience creating, maintaining, or governing reusable component libraries and design systems.
• Experience with front-end testing frameworks and test-automation practices.
• Experience applying WCAG 2.1 and Section 508 accessibility standards.
• Experience optimizing front-end application performance and modernizing legacy enterprise applications.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense or other federal government programs.
• Active Secret security clearance.
• Active CompTIA Security+ certification.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.

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