UI React Developer

Job Title: UI React Developer
Location: Houston, TX (100% Onsite)
Duration: 12 Months

Visa: Only H1B with PP No.
Pay Rate: $51/hr on C2C

Responsibilities:
Lead frontend delivery, setting a high bar for code quality, reliability, and user experience.
– Mentor engineers and drive best practices across architecture, testing, and documentation.
– Partner closely with product, UX, and backend teams to translate outcomes into scalable UI solutions.
– Establish strong engineering hygiene: pull request workflows, design reviews, and test automation.
– Promote responsible use of AI-assisted engineering (e.g., Copilot/agentic tools) to improve velocity and quality.

Required Qualifications:
BS/BA degree or equivalent practical experience.
– 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including 3+ years with React and TypeScript.
– Expert proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and the React ecosystem.
– Experience with frontend architecture patterns at scale (e.g., Micro Frontends) and monorepo tooling (e.g., Nx).
– Strong testing mindset, including unit/functional/integration testing.
– Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills in Agile delivery environments.

Preferred Qualifications:
– Experience improving coding velocity and quality using GenAI and agentic tools (e.g., Copilot); experience integrating LLM capabilities into engineered solutions is a plus.
– Experience with NGINX and modern deployment patterns.
– Experience designing and consuming APIs and working effectively with microservices.
– Experience building cloud-native applications (AWS/Azure/Pivotal or similar) and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).
– Engineering experience in fintech (Investment Banking or Capital Markets preferred).