Lead Digital UX Engineer (Front-End) with (React.js & Native SASS)

Job Description

Job Description

Senior (Tech Lead) Digital UX Engineer (Front-End) with React.js and Native SASS

Pay Rate : $66/hour, 40 hours/week with an opportunity to convert to a full-time employee.

Role : Contractor (not Corp-to-Corp 1099)

Location: Onsite - must currently reside in the Birmingham area and be able to commute to in the Birmingham area.
Length: October 1, 2025, to April 1, 2026

VisionCor Solutions partners with leading organizations to deliver exceptional solutions. Join our team and support our client’s projects. The Senior Digital UX Engineer (Front-End) drives user-centered designs for the betterment of our client’s customers and business groups. This role works as an active partner with inclusive, cross-functional UX squads throughout the digital product lifecycle to help build innovative and meaningful solutions that create a desirable customer experience. The UX Engineer takes a pragmatic and systems thinking approach to front-end development and is motivated by collaborating to create inclusive experiences and clean, responsible code.

The UX Engineer is a front-end developer who focuses on the "front" of the front-end. They should possess a strong design skillset, as well as proficient skills in web accessibility, front-end performance, and building design systems and/or component libraries.

Our client’s team works primarily in React.js , so while understanding of other modern JavaScript frameworks is useful, expert understanding of React.js is crucial.

The client also writes (mostly) native CSS using SCSS/SASS, so this person needs to be at expert-level. Knowledge of CSS frameworks like Tailwind, Bootstrap, and CSS-in-JS tools is mostly useless for this role.

This role will review code, provide technical guidance to more junior UX Engineers, and lead prototyping projects as much as or more than they will be writing their own code.

Responsibilities:

• Leads a team of front-end developers to ensure the team writes maintainable, scalable, and accessible HTML, CSS, and TypeScript/JavaScript for user interface (UI) components and page designs
• Leads coding and documentation efforts for the maintenance and growth of the design system
• Leads code testing efforts for visual, unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Sets code quality standards for front-end development and ensures standards are met via code reviews
• Collaborates with partners to ensure the design system team is delivering what's needed to make implementation teams successful
• Seeks opportunities to mentor junior staff
• Leads team in Agile ceremonies like stand-ups, backlog refinement, cycle goal setting, and retros
• Understands and maintains the complete development architecture for the design system and related prototypes
• Sets the development priorities for the design system and related prototypes
• Proactively ensures the long-term success of the design system and front-end prototypes using the design system

Requirements:

• Minimum of High School Diploma/GED and twelve (12) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience with front-end development

Skills:

• A systems thinking and proactive problem-solving approach to identifying common UI patterns and distilling them down into highly repeatable components
• Ability to collaborate with designers to establish which UI patterns should be adopted into the design system and which should remain specific to a project
• Ability to establish meaningful relationships with cross-functional teams including development and product management within and across product groups
• Ability to improve existing methods, tools, and processes to increase output across job functions and their team
• Ability to work within Agile/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe development methodologies
• An understanding of the importance of accessibility in front-end development and design
• Commitment to inclusive design and accessibility (strong understanding working within WCAG guidelines)
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a collaborative team to listen effectively, to respect others’ perspectives and contributions, and to offer and accept feedback openly
• Expert-level knowledge and understanding of at least one modern JavaScript framework or library like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, etc. and their meta-frameworks like Next, Gatsby, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, etc.
• Expert-level knowledge and understanding of semantic HTML, scalable CSS and the cascade, and JavaScript
• Expert-level understanding of CSS preprocessors like SASS/SCSS
• Expert-level understanding of scalable CSS architecture and CSS methodologies such as BEM, ITCSS, OOCSS, etc.
• Experience in establishing CSS build tools and delivery infrastructure and writing code that enables design system assets (design tokens, SCSS, CSS, Figma files, documentation site) to be delivered to a variety of development teams of designers and developers
• Experience in setting up and maintaining automated CI/CD workflow
• Experience receiving data from a REST or GraphQL API and displaying it in a UI
• Experience with automating build processes and working with package managers
• Experience with contemporary design tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc.
• Interest or experience with web components and related frameworks and libraries
• Pragmatic approach to working within existing tech stacks while keeping an eye on the industry for opportunities for improvement
• Strong understanding of cross-browser testing across desktop and mobile browsers
• Strong understanding of modern CSS layout techniques (flexbox, grid, container queries, etc.)
• Strong written, presentation, and verbal communication skills.

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Company Description

Join us at VisionCor Solutions, a leading professional and consulting firm providing organization, leadership, technical, and learning solutions services. Since 1990, we have partnered with a diverse range of Fortune 500 clients across the United States, delivering innovative solutions that drive success. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, we are dedicated to excellence and forward-thinking approaches in our field.

Company Description

Join us at VisionCor Solutions, a leading professional and consulting firm providing organization, leadership, technical, and learning solutions services. Since 1990, we have partnered with a diverse range of Fortune 500 clients across the United States, delivering innovative solutions that drive success. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, we are dedicated to excellence and forward-thinking approaches in our field.