Front End React UI Engineer, Assistant Vice President

Overview

The Global Experience Design team is building a shared design system and front-end platform that delivers reusable components, layouts, design tokens, theming, and UI engineering capabilities to support enterprise-wide digital experiences at State Street. The design system is designed to enable consistent, accessible, and scalable user experiences across products by providing shared front-end foundations, reusable UI patterns, and modern engineering workflows for enterprise application teams.

We are seeking a Front End React UI Engineer to help build intuitive, scalable, and high-quality user experiences across the SSDS platform. This role will focus on developing modern front-end applications, reusable UI components, and shared design system capabilities that support enterprise products and front-end teams across the organization.

Within SSDS, this role is important because the design system serves as a shared foundation for product teams building enterprise applications across the organization. The Front End React UI Engineer helps ensure that shared components, styling patterns, accessibility practices, and front-end standards are implemented consistently and at high quality, enabling teams to move faster while delivering a more unified user experience.

As a Front End React UI Engineer, you will:

• Build and maintain responsive, accessible, and performant front-end applications, reusable UI components, and design system capabilities for SSDS.
• Translate product, UX, and business requirements into clean, maintainable, and reusable UI components and application features.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver workflow-driven user experiences in an iterative, product-led model.
• Develop front-end integrations with APIs, shared services, and platform capabilities.
• Contribute to reusable design systems, front-end standards, and engineering best practices.
• Help implement agent-assisted and AI-enabled user experiences with a strong focus on clarity, trust, transparency, and usability.
• Write well-tested, secure, and maintainable code that meets enterprise quality and compliance expectations.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvement of front-end architecture and development processes.

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Proven experience building modern front-end applications in a professional engineering environment.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and Type Script, with hands-on expertise in React and modern front-end application development.
• Experience developing reusable UI components, application shells, and scalable client-side architecture.
• Experience working with Tailwind CSS, utility-first CSS frameworks, or comparable front-end styling systems.
• Experience working with design systems, reusable component libraries, and token-driven UI development.
• Solid understanding of front-end fundamentals including state management, performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive design.
• Experience building accessible user interfaces and applying accessibility best practices and standards.
• Experience consuming REST APIs and working with back-end services in distributed systems.
• Experience with modern front-end tooling such as Vite, Vitest, Storybook, or similar development workflows.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and UX teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail in building polished, user-centered interfaces.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving enterprise environment with evolving priorities and complex workflows.

• 3+ years of experience in front-end engineering or full-stack development with a strong front-end focus.
• Demonstrated expertise building production-grade applications with React.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working within a large, regulated enterprise environment is a plus.
• Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, and…