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A business unit of General Dynamics, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) supports some of the United States' most complex government, defense, and in

Principal Software Front End Engineer

Location

United States

Posted

1 day ago

Salary

$142.8K - $189.8K / year

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Principal Software Front End Engineer

General Dynamics

Role Description SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SENIOR What You’ll Do: - Define and drive the strategic direction for frontend engineering practices, tooling, and skillset across the organization. - Lead the development of accessible, performant, and user-centered web applications that serve government customers. - Serve as the technical authority and thought leader for frontend architecture and engineering excellence. - Design and implement modern frontend architectures, development pipelines, and deployment infrastructure. - Deliver new features and improvements to our customer-facing applications with a strong focus on user experience and accessibility compliance (Section 508, WCAG). - Collaborate with product managers to ideate and balance optimal UI/UX experience with implementation effort, making pragmatic trade-offs that deliver value. - Build and maintain component libraries, design systems, and shared frontend infrastructure that enable team velocity and consistency. - Identify opportunities to modernize our frontend stack and take ownership of technical initiatives that improve developer experience and application quality. - Establish and champion frontend best practices including mobile-first development, testing strategies, performance optimization, accessibility standards, and code quality patterns. - Mentor and coach engineers at all levels on frontend technologies and establish career development pathways for frontend specialization. - Influence technical decisions across teams and serve as a strategic advisor on frontend initiatives. - Work across the full stack when needed to solve problems end-to-end – backend experience is valuable but frontend is your primary focus. Qualifications - Demonstrated track record of leading and delivering multiple production-ready, accessible frontend applications. - Proven experience architecting and implementing modern frontend applications at scale using React and/or Angular. - Track record of establishing frontend engineering standards, practices, and tooling that improve team productivity and code quality. - Working experience with frontend build tooling, bundling strategies, and deployment pipelines (Webpack, Vite, pnpm, npm, or similar). - Strong understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA minimum, Section 508 compliance) with practical implementation experience including accessibility linting (axe-core, eslint-pluginjsx-a11y) and automated accessibility testing in CI/CD pipelines. - Experience with automated frontend testing strategies including unit testing, component testing, and end-to-end UI testing with tools like Playwright, Cypress, or similar. - Familiarity with frontend infrastructure, CDN strategies, asset optimization, and progressive enhancement patterns. - Experience with design systems, component libraries, and maintaining consistency across multiple applications. Requirements - Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C. - Position is remote, with approximately 0-10% business travel. Benefits - Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts. - Dental plan options. - Vision plan. - 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. - Full flex work weeks where possible. - Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave. - 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness. - 10 paid holidays per year. - The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. - Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.

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