Principal Software Engineer, Back End

🔥 0 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $147.3k - $199.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored H1B visas in the past.

👻 Ghost score 0%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

General Dynamics Information Technology

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1954

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

General Dynamics Information Technology is a company at the forefront of technological innovation, offering a wide range of services including consulting, digital modernization, and application services. The company is heavily involved in implementing solutions related to artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, and quantum technologies. GDIT is committed to supporting government and defense sectors, providing mission-critical services such as logistics and supply chain management, intelligence, and homeland security. The company also focuses on diverse and inclusive hiring practices and actively promotes employee well-being. Through its digital accelerator solutions and pioneering use of emerging technologies, GDIT aims to propel agencies' missions forward and address complex technological challenges.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the strategic direction for frontend engineering practices, tooling, and skillset • Lead development of accessible, performant, user-centered web applications for government customers • Serve as technical authority and thought leader for frontend architecture and engineering excellence • Design and implement frontend architectures, development pipelines, and deployment infrastructure • Deliver features and improvements to customer-facing applications with emphasis on UX and accessibility compliance • Collaborate with product managers to balance UI/UX quality with implementation effort • Build and maintain component libraries, design systems, and shared frontend infrastructure • Modernize the frontend stack and lead technical initiatives improving developer experience and application quality • Establish frontend best practices for mobile-first development, testing, performance, accessibility, and code quality • Mentor and coach engineers and establish frontend specialization career pathways • Influence technical decisions across teams and advise on frontend initiatives • Work across the full stack when needed to solve problems end-to-end • Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, executives, and external stakeholders • Lead cross-functional initiatives and navigate technical/business trade-offs

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of related experience • Must be a US Citizen • Must be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C • Demonstrated track record of leading and delivering multiple production-ready, accessible frontend applications • Experience architecting and implementing modern frontend applications at scale using React and/or Angular • Experience establishing frontend engineering standards, practices, and tooling • Experience with frontend build tooling, bundling strategies, and deployment pipelines, including Webpack, Vite, pnpm, or npm • Strong understanding and practical implementation experience with WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 compliance • Experience with accessibility linting and automated accessibility testing in CI/CD pipelines • Experience with unit, component, and end-to-end frontend testing using tools such as Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Angular Testing Library, Playwright, or Cypress • Familiarity with frontend infrastructure, CDN strategies, asset optimization, and progressive enhancement • Experience with design systems and component libraries • Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and web platform APIs • Understanding of CSS architecture, mobile-first responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility • Experience integrating accessibility validation into testing pipelines using axe-core or similar tools • Experience with state management and asynchronous data handling • Knowledge of web performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, and frontend monitoring • Understanding of GraphQL or REST API integration and backend services • Familiarity with CDN and static hosting deployment patterns • Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines • Strong product thinking and knowledge of modern UI/UX principles and user-centered design • Experience collaborating with product managers and designers on customer-facing applications • Ability to lead large-scale technical initiatives and make principal-level architectural decisions • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Proven track record of mentoring and developing engineers

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts • Dental plan options • Vision plan • 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contributions and company match • Full flex work weeks where possible • Vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave • Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year • 10 paid holidays per year • Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees • Short- and long-term disability benefits • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Personal accident insurance • Critical illness insurance • Business travel and accident insurance