Software Engineer, React Focus

About the role

You'll set technical direction for a TypeScript frontend platform serving a large data-intensive engineering program. This is a hands-on role: you'll write code, own architecture, and raise the ceiling for a team of ~6 engineers. Expect to work directly with backend, product, and end users.

Responsibilities

• Co-own architecture for a React/TypeScript/Next.js application backed by gRPC/protobuf services
• Drive design of data-access layers (BFF/API boundaries, caching, pagination, streaming) where payload size and memory pressure are real constraints
• Set and enforce standards across a Turborepo monorepo: shared packages, versioning, build/CI performance, dependency hygiene
• Lead technical design reviews; write the design docs and white papers that anchor them
• Diagnose hard problems: memory exhaustion, render performance, pipeline issues
• Mentor engineers across levels and enable the team to work faster
• Work directly with customers and stakeholders to shape requirements, then decompose them into scoped, estimable work

Requirements

• 6+ years building production software; 4+ in TypeScript/JavaScript and Node
• Deep React experience, including performance profiling and state/data-fetching architecture at scale
• Demonstrated ownership of system-level design decisions and their consequences
• Strong written communication: design docs, technical proposals
• Track record of mentoring and elevating other engineers
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and defining the problem
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance (U.S. citizen)

Preferred Skills

• gRPC / protobuf, especially large-payload or streaming scenarios
• Turborepo, Nx, or comparable monorepo tooling
• API design (REST, gRPC, BFF patterns) and versioning strategy
• Agentic / LLM-assisted development workflows and tooling
• Playwright or comparable E2E frameworks; test strategy across the pyramid
• CI/CD pipeline design and build optimization
• Data visualization at scale (AG Charts, D3, or similar)
• Storybook and component library ownership
• Wireframing and UX collaboration; comfort sketching a flow before building it
• Defense, aerospace, or other regulated-environment experience

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $118,095 – $200,762. Individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications such as skills, education, and experience.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts
• 401(k) savings plan
• Disability coverage
• Life and accident insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Legal plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Other leave programs including paid parental, military, bereavement, and federal/state sick leave
• Employee recognition program (monetary or non-monetary awards)
• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance
• Other incentives based on position level and job specifics

About the company

BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace, and security company delivering products and services for air, land, and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions, and customer support services. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems’ game-changing defense and commercial electronics, pushing the limits of what is possible to give customers a competitive edge. The team consists of over 14,000 highly talented employees focused on impactful innovation in electronic systems.