Sr Front End Engineer SME

Lead Software Engineer

Why AIS? When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

Employee Ownership:
Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

Continuous Learning:
Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

Mission-Driven Work:
Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for? At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

Core Knowledge &

Skills:

Operates independently or as a team lead, selects appropriate persistence technologies (e.g., EF, Dapper), defines source control strategies, and designs subsystem infrastructure.

Work & Complexity:
Tackles complex problems with thorough analysis, manages cross-functional delivery, and improves system reliability and scalability.

Quality & Independence:
Consistently meets deadlines even under challenging conditions, enforces standards through detailed reviews, and establishes productivity benchmarks for the team.

Teamwork & Communication:
Provides functional leadership by setting objectives, organizing resources, resolving conflicts, and engaging confidently with both internal and external stakeholders.

Consulting & Engagement:
Troubleshoots advanced client issues, supports requirements gathering, and contributes to vendor presentations or proposal activities.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Sr Front End Engineer SME. Project Summary As a Senior Front-end Developer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, building, and optimizing modern user interfaces that support mission-critical applications. You will lead the development of scalable, high-performance front-end solutions using React, Type Script, JavaScript, Node.js,

and AWS-hosted environments, ensuring seamless integration  back-end services. In this role, you will mentor mid-level developers, set engineering standards, and champion best practices in code quality, accessibility, and performance. You will collaborate closely with designers, back-end engineers, product owners, and mission stakeholders to deliver intuitive, secure, and reliable user experiences that meet evolving customer and program needs. Drawing on deep technical expertise and strong problem-solving skills, you will help guide architectural decisions, drive continuous improvement, and ensure front-end components operate effectively within enterprise-grade systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of responsive, high-performance user interfaces using Node.js, React, JavaScript, Type Script, HTML, and CSS
• Architect modular, maintainable, and scalable UI component libraries aligned with modern engineering standards
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to mid level and junior frontend developers, including reviewing code, coaching on best practices, and supporting skill development
• Integrate frontend applications with  services using REST APIs, JSON, and XML
• Drive client-side state management patterns, rendering optimization, and performance tuning for enterprise-grade applications
• Collaborate closely with UX/UI designers, backend engineers, and product owners to ensure seamless end-to-end functionality
• Establish and enforce coding standards, accessibility guidelines, and quality controls across the frontend codebase
• Use Git and Git Lab for version control, branching strategies, and merge request workflows
• Troubleshoot complex UI issues across environments, platforms, and browsers, providing root-cause analysis and actionable remediation
• Operate within AWS cloud-hosted environments and support integration, deployments, and environment troubleshooting
• Promote a culture of high-quality engineering through code reviews, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions
• Support planning, estimation, and architectural discussions for new features and modernization efforts
• Partner with teams to ensure frontend solutions meet accessibility, security, and performance requirements
• Review code and container scans and remediate both code and package vulnerabilities on a regular basis

Required For This Opportunity

• Must have an active Top-Secret clearance and be eligible for SCI.
• 8+ years of experience developing modern frontend applications using React, JavaScript, Type Script, and Node.js
• Advanced experience building UI components with HTML, CSS, Sass, and responsive design frameworks
• Strong…