Senior Front End Developer

Position Overview:

Design and develop modern, scalable, and user-friendly web interfaces for CAE, Mission Control, SPT Hub, and other internal engineering applications. This contract role is based in Santa Clara, California, and will focus on responsive user experiences, reusable components, application performance, and integration with enterprise APIs and backend services.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain front-end interfaces for CAE, Mission Control, and related SPT applications.

• Translate business and engineering requirements into intuitive user-interface workflows.

• Develop reusable UI components and common design patterns.

• Integrate front-end applications with APIs, databases, and backend services.

• Build dashboards, search interfaces, drilldowns, forms, and data-heavy views.

• Improve usability, responsiveness, front-end performance, and application scalability.

• Implement role-based visibility and permissions where required.

• Collaborate with backend, database, analytics, and Power Platform engineers.

• Help establish consistent UI/UX standards across SPT tools.

Qualifications:

• Required: Advanced experience with React, TypeScript or JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.

• Required: Experience developing modern, responsive user interfaces and reusable components.

• Required: Experience with REST API integration and front-end state management.

• Required: Experience optimizing front-end application performance.

• Required: Experience using Git and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.

• Required: Experience collaborating with backend engineers and integrating with APIs.

• Preferred: Experience with AG Grid or a similar enterprise data-grid framework.

• Preferred: Experience with Material UI, Fluent UI, or a similar component library.

• Preferred: Python or basic backend-development exposure.

• Preferred: Data visualization and dashboard-development experience.

• Preferred: Experience with authentication, authorization, and role-based user interfaces.

• Preferred: User experience/user interface (UX/UI) design experience.

• Preferred: Experience building interfaces for large-data applications and internal enterprise tools.

• Preferred: Familiarity with artificial intelligence, large language models, or Model Context Protocol-enabled applications.

Tools and Technologies:

• React

• TypeScript and JavaScript

• HTML5 and CSS

• REST APIs

• AG Grid or similar enterprise data-grid frameworks

• Material UI, Fluent UI, or similar component libraries

• Git and CI/CD

• Python

• Data visualization and dashboard technologies