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React Lead

Pacer Staffing

$75–$95 / Hour

Location

Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Experience

Posted

Jul 30, 2026

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August 30, 2026

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Job Description

Pacer Staffing is hiring a React Lead for an urgent, onsite contract opportunity in Jersey City, NJ. The role owns front-end architecture and delivery for complex, user-facing web applications, sets front-end engineering standards, and partners closely with backend teams on API design. Strong hands-on use of AI-assisted engineering tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) is required to accelerate implementation, refactoring, testing, and debugging.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead development of complex, user-facing web applications using React and TypeScript, owning front-end architecture and delivery approach
  • Establish and evolve front-end standards: component architecture, state management, routing, code conventions, and testing practices
  • Collaborate with backend teams on API contracts (GraphQL/REST) and advocate for front-end friendly patterns such as pagination, filtering, and error models
  • Mentor engineers and drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows for implementation, refactoring, and debugging

Requirements

  • 12+ years professional software engineering experience with significant depth in front-end web development; experience leading projects and mentoring engineers
  • Expert-level React proficiency: hooks, component composition, context, rendering behavior, and concurrency-related patterns
  • Strong TypeScript skills (types-as-design, generics, strictness strategies) and modern JavaScript fundamentals
  • Deep experience with modern front-end tooling: Vite/Webpack, Babel/SWC, npm/pnpm/yarn, and build/release pipelines
  • Strong CSS skills: responsive design, CSS architecture (CSS Modules, CSS-in-JS, or utility frameworks), and theming at scale
  • Advanced testing practices: Jest/Vitest, React Testing Library, Playwright/Cypress for E2E, with test strategy ownership
  • Accessibility expertise: WCAG/ARIA, keyboard navigation, screen-reader considerations, and automated plus manual a11y testing
  • Performance engineering: profiling, bundle splitting, SSR/CSR trade-offs, caching strategies, and Core Web Vitals optimization
  • API integration expertise with GraphQL and REST including schema-driven development, error handling, pagination, and caching
  • Security awareness for web apps: XSS/CSRF prevention, dependency hygiene, and secure auth/session patterns
  • Proficiency using AI-assisted engineering tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate implementation, refactoring, test creation, and debugging
  • Experience with SSR/meta frameworks such as Next.js or Remix and SEO considerations, plus design systems (Storybook, tokens) is a plus

Skills Required

GitHub CopilotReactPlaywrightWeb AccessibilityREST APIsGraphQLJestNext.jsTypeScriptJavaScript

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