Senior​/Frontend Engineer

Selara is hiring frontend engineers to work on VA.gov, the digital front doorfor the Department of Veterans Affairs. The features you ship reach millions of Veterans who use VA.gov to apply for benefits, manage their health care,and track their claims. The frontend is a large, long-lived React codebase,and part of the job is moving it forward, not just adding to it.

This is one posting for two levels. We calibrate senior against staff duringthe interview process based on the scope you have owned and the impact youhave driven.

• Build and ship user-facing features in the VA.gov frontend
• Write modern React as your default, using function components, hooks, andTypeScript, and help migrate older class components and Redux patternstoward that standard
• Compose interfaces from the VA Design System so every experience is consistent, responsive, and meets WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508
• Integrate against REST APIs served by the VA.gov platform and handleloading, error, and offline states honestly
• Strengthen test coverage with component tests and browser-level end-to-endtests, and leave the suites faster and more trustworthy than you found them
• Review code, improve CI feedback loops, and share context generously with adistributed team
• At the staff level, set technical direction across teams, mentor senior engineers, and drive migrations that outlast any single feature

• Deep experience building production React applications, with modernpatterns as your starting point rather than your aspiration
• Fluency in Type Script and current JavaScript tooling
• A track record of shipping accessible interfaces and treating accessibilityas a requirement, not a cleanup task
• Experience integrating with and debugging against REST APIs
• Strong testing instincts across unit, component, and end-to-end layers
• Comfort with Git-based collaboration, code review, and CI on Git Hub
• Clear written communication in a remote, distributed team
• For staff, a history of leading architecture decisions and raising the engineering bar beyond your own commits

• Experience with VA.gov, the vets-website codebase, or another largecivic-tech frontend
• Familiarity with the US Web Design System or another mature design system
• Experience with Playwright or Cypress at scale
• Federal delivery experience, including working under a Public Trust

This role is fully remote within the United States. Work on VA.gov requires the ability to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust suitability determination, which includes a background investigation.

Selara is a Veteran-led digital services company. We build modern, accessible software for the public sector, and we hold our own work to the same standard we set for the services Veterans rely on.