[Hiring] Lead Front-End Engineer @DecisionPoint | Cortek

Role Description

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

• 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.