Senior Frontend Developer

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Location:

This is a hybrid role that involves local travel to a secure facility near Anchorage, Alaska, as needed. To learn more about the security clearance process please access this link. Additionally, travel may be required to customer and subcontractor sites as well as other office locations.

Hypergiant, an Accelint company, empowers forward-thinking organizations with AI‑driven solutions to stay ahead. Our geographic presence spans the U.S. and allied partners, with facilities in key Defense Technology hubs from Southern California to Washington, D.C. We provide large enterprises – across industries like the Defense Department, energy, healthcare and aviation – with bespoke technology solutions, cutting‑edge advice, and deployment expertise needed to harness the value out of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

At our core, we are military experts, researchers and technologists who want to accelerate intelligence to deliver strategic insights that turn future challenges into today’s opportunities.

• Engage with operators and drive user adoption
• Triage and resolve technical issues in real time – diagnose and debug issues, document and add to backlog when required
• Sit with system operators to get feedback on software and ideate on potential solutions
• Push new requirements to development teams and rapidly prototype modifications to React‑based web applications
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of reusable component libraries and shared codebase
• Write high‑quality code, applying best practices, coding standards, and design patterns
• Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, including requirement gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment, using an agile, iterative process
• Participate in code reviews and ensure code quality through effective testing strategies
• Collaborate with developers, designers, testers, project managers, product managers, and project sponsors
• Communicate tasking estimation and progress regularly to a development lead and product owner through appropriate tools
• Team with other developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth

• At least 8+ years of professional front‑end/UI development experience (5+ with a STEM B.S.) including 5+ years of experience with React (other JavaScript frameworks are a plus)
• Able to develop organized, accessible, and performant apps using JavaScript, Type Script, advanced CSS, and HTML
• Solid understanding of application architecture, and concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES6
• Familiarity with WebGL‑based libraries (e.g., Three
  
  JS, Deck.gl, Mapbox GL JS)
• Experience with CSS‑in‑JS solutions such as Styled Components or Emotion
• Proficient with version control systems (e.g., Git) and effective collaborative development workflows
• Experience managing robust build & test tools and implementing workflow automations (e.g., Jest, Rollup, Webpack, Babel)
• Design‑minded attention to detail in user interface and user experience implementation
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess an active U.S. DoD Security Clearance

• Experience in managing, mentoring & coaching development teams in an Agile environment (e.g., leading scrum and agile project management tools & ceremonies)
• Experience working in a secure facility or directly with mission operators
• Experience auditing third‑party dependencies in the React ecosystem
• A portfolio of past projects with code samples or Git Hub links
• Geospatial information system (GIS) experience
• Penchant for learning new technologies, balanced with strong pragmatic thinking
• Experience with state management libraries like Redux or React Context API
• Ability to travel as needed

Some positions will require access to U.S. National Security information. Positions that require this access will be required to receive and maintain a U.S. government personnel security clearance (PCL). In order to qualify for this position, the candidate must be a U.S. Citizen and either currently possess this National Security…