Frontend Engineer React and AWS

Frontend Engineer (React & AWS) - Remote

Company: Numentica Location: Remote (EST Work Hours) Contract Type: Contract Duration: 12 Months (initial) Rate: Up to $80/hr W2 or $88/hr C2C

Numentica is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Frontend Engineer to join our remote team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on customer-facing applications, revamping UI experiences, and developing new capabilities for election and analytics-focused platforms.

About the Role

As a Frontend Engineer, you will be instrumental in building and enhancing robust front-end applications using React and TypeScript. You will collaborate closely with UX designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver scalable and performant user experiences. This role requires a strong understanding of modern frontend development practices, AWS cloud services, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and enhance front-end applications using React and TypeScript.
• Revamp and modernize existing UI experiences for internal high-visibility applications.
• Develop new front-end capabilities for election and analytics-focused platforms.
• Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and engineering teams to deliver scalable user experiences.
• Integrate front-end applications with AWS services, REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, and streaming data services.
• Improve usability, search, navigation, and workflow efficiency across applications.
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable production-ready code.
• Participate in testing, deployment, troubleshooting, monitoring, and optimization activities.
• Support rapid development timelines and work independently with minimal oversight.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional front-end software development experience (non-internship).
• Strong hands-on expertise with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience with AWS services such as CloudFront, S3, ECS, Lambda, and API Gateway.
• Experience integrating with REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Proficiency in front-end testing frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or AWS CodePipeline.
• Proven experience building scalable and production-grade front-end applications.
• Understanding of web performance optimization and accessibility standards.
• Experience working on customer-facing applications.
• Familiarity with component architecture, state management, rendering performance, and browser behavior.
• Experience working in agile product and engineering teams.
• Ability to quickly ramp up and contribute to existing applications and codebases.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Work Authorization: Green Card, US Citizen, H1B (all valid EADs except OPT, CPT).

Nice to Have

• Experience with AI-assisted or LLM-integrated interfaces.
• Familiarity with AI development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code).
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts.
• Databricks exposure.
• Experience with data visualization libraries (e.g., D3.js, Recharts, Chart.js).
• Experience with Next.js or server-side rendering frameworks.
• Experience with observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog).
• Prior experience supporting high-traffic media, news, or real-time analytics platforms.