Senior Front End Developer

Role Information:

• Job Title: Senior Front End Developer
• Work Location: Fully remote position, home office
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Employment Status: Exempt
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Must reside in the United States.
• We are not accepting applicants for remote workers in California, Illinois, and New York at this time.

Compensation:

• $102,138 - $146,044

Role Overview:

The Senior Front-End Developer is responsible for creating and leading the visual and interactive design of web applications, bringing strong creative vision combined with expert knowledge of front-end architecture, web navigation, user experience principles, and information architecture. This role involves architecting, developing, testing, refining, maintaining, and thoroughly documenting the look, feel, and flow of websites and user interfaces to deliver exceptional user experiences. The developer ensures seamless integration of data and functionality from the back-end team by accurately rendering and displaying application logic in the browser, precisely as intended by the customer, UX expert and the back-end developers, while enabling intuitive navigation and reliable access to information across the platform. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead our front-end architecture and development efforts for Foresight and ICM, owning responsibility for our front end development teams, who could be remote contractors (e.g. in India). Responsible for creating user experiences that delight our end users. 
• Help refine our roadmap and FE stories.  
• Own and validate authentication, authorization (including RBAC), and Next.js web server components to achieve sufficiently granular access controls. Will mitigate and fix vulnerabilities in accordance with our SLA, ensuring minimal downtime, and complete resolution of customer escalations.  
• Design and execute unit and end to end tests for authentication, authorization, workflows and application functionality; collaborate with customer IT teams during onboarding and initial installations to ensure seamless first-time sign-ins and production readiness.  
• Lead prototyping, testing, documentation and validation of SSO and authentication and migrations, verifying portability, security, and backward compatibility with no regressions.  
• Champion React frontend quality practices: lead upgrades, governance of shared libraries (including material), and enforcement of sustainable coding standards to prioritize customer success and long-term maintainability.  
• Create and ensure adherence to Cutsforth Design Systems for our front end applications. 
• Take ownership and provide deep collaboration with QA  for our applications, including validation of identification and creation of new UI components (e.g., split buttons in shared libraries) to eliminate duplicates and improve workflow consistency.  
• Establish and maintain company-wide JavaScript, TypeScript, and React linting configurations (published to npm) to reduce decision fatigue, enforce consistency, and prevent quality issues at the source.  
• Author and promote key security documentation, such as secure frontend development guidelines for cloud-tier applications using React, ensuring widespread adoption as a reference standard.  
• Collaborate with IT to provision and test performance environments (e.g., Azure AKS clusters using Terraform and Helm) and validate scalability, reliability, and security under load.  
• Serve as a Security Champion: contribute to threat modeling policies (including redefining STRIDE frameworks), leverage AI for threat categorization, deliver team training, and adapt organizational threat modeling specifically for frontend contexts.  
• Conduct comprehensive testing across functional, security, regression, and performance areas; identify, document, and track defects while verifying fixes to maintain platform integrity. 
   

•  Proven expertise in secure authentication and authorization systems (OIDC, RBAC, Auth0, ForgeRock, SSO migrations) with a track record of delivering zero-disruption implementations and customer-facing validations.  
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js backend services and web servers, emphasizing security hardening, vulnerability prevention, and high-uptime reliability.  
•  Deep proficiency in React architecture, large-scale shared libraries, upgrades, and best practices (including linting standardization across JavaScript/TypeScript/React).  
• Experience leading or contributing to UI working groups, authoring technical guidelines/documents (e.g., on module organization, testing, localization, custom elements), and ensuring frontend sustainability.  
• Solid background in threat modeling (STRIDE), security champion initiatives, frontend-specific security practices, and training teams on secure development.  
• Familiarity with infrastructure tools (Terraform, Helm, AWS) for testing/performance environments and cross-team collaboration for deployments/migrations.  
• Proficiency in full-stack development/testing concepts (React/TypeScript/JavaScript/Node.js, with exposure to C# or Ext JS a plus).  
• Excellent documentation, training, and presentation skills (e.g., internal conference-level contributions).  
• Demonstrated ability to work in Agile environments, resolve customer-impacting issues proactively, and focus on zero customer disruption. 
• Bachelors of Science in Computer Science 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in platforms with lab management, access control, or enterprise IT integrations.  
• Background in performance/security testing tools and methodologies. 
• Twelve or more years of experience in areas outlined above. 

Other Qualifications:

• Successfully pass background check for cybersecurity access requirements.

Cybersecurity Role Expectations:

• Candidate will be responsible for reviewing policies and procedures related to cybersecurity and those relevant to the functions of their role.
• Candidate is expected to maintain a cybersecure work environment.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to use hands to type, handle products, tools and navigate a computer keyboard.
• Must be able to view computer screen for extended periods of time.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision.

Benefits:

• Medical, Vision, Dental Insurance
• Health Savings Account with Employer contributions
• 401(k) with Employer match
• Short-term & Long-term Disability Coverage
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment Coverage
• Life Insurance Coverage
• 80 hours of Paid-Time-Off annually
• Eight paid holidays per year
• All other benefits required by applicable law

Alignment with Corporate Values

All Cutsforth employees are expected to perform their work in a manner that exhibits understanding and adherence to the Company Mission and Core Attributes of Cutsforth Employees. Employees in management roles must exhibit continual improvement along Cutsforth’s Leadership Traits. Further, each employee must read and adhere to corporate policies and safety protocols.

• Learn more about Cutsforth here: Cutsforth.com/About
• Read our Mission & Values here: Cutsforth.com/Values

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Cutsforth will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Cutsforth will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Such action shall include, but not be limited to the following: Employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer, recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including apprenticeship. Cutsforth agrees to post in conspicuous places, available to employees and applicants for employment, notices to be provided by the provisions of this nondiscrimination clause.

For Cutsforth's full Equal Employment Opportunity Policy, click here: EEO Notice to Employees & Applicants