Software Developer (Frontend / Full Stack)

Job Family:
Software Development & Support

Travel Required:
Up to 10%

Clearance Required:
Active Top Secret (TS)

Guidehouse is seeking a Front-End / Full-Stack Software Developer to join our Technology / AI and Data team, supporting mission-critical initiatives for Defense and Security clients. In this role, you will lead the development of intuitive, secure, and high-performance user interfaces that enable analysts to interact with advanced AI-driven platforms. You will design and implement full-stack solutions that integrate frontend components with backend services, AI/ML pipelines, and workflow orchestration systems, ensuring compliance with stringent federal security and accessibility standards. Collaborating with engineers, architects, and mission stakeholders, you will deliver innovative tools that enhance decision-making and operational effectiveness in support of national security objectives.

What You Will Do:

• Serves as the lead frontend/full-stack engineer responsible for developing the FBI adjudication platform's analyst-facing interface, enabling analysts to review AI outputs, explore entities, assess anomalies, evaluate SEAD-4 scoring rationales, and generate adjudication memos.
• Designs intuitive, performant, secure, and accessible UI components supporting long-document review, multi-panel comparisons, risk visualization, human-AI review workflows, and structured memo generation.
• Implements full-stack integrations between UI components, backend APIs, LLM inference endpoints, retrieval services, scoring engines, and workflow orchestration pipelines.
• Ensures frontend components comply with FedRAMP High, RMF, NIST 800-53, and FBI ATO requirements including session integrity, RBAC, secure rendering, and audit logging.

UI/UX Engineering for Analyst Workflows

• Design and implement UI components for evidence review including long-document navigation, multi-page PDF rendering, in-line annotations, bookmarks, and side-by-side comparisons.
• Develop interfaces for entity extraction panels showing extracted entities, risk flags, cross-references, and SEAD-4 guideline relationships.
• Build a memo-builder UI that integrates AI-generated drafts with human edits, supports structured adjudication templates, source citations, formatting tools, and approval workflows.
• Implement dashboards showing risk indicators, timeline reconstructions, anomaly summaries, continuous-vetting alerts, and adjudication scoring breakdowns.

Frontend Engineering (React / Angular / TypeScript)

• Develop frontend applications using React, Angular, or Vue with strong TypeScript patterns, modular component design, and maintainable state-management solutions (Redux, NGXS, Zustand, MobX).
• Implement secure UI behaviors including RBAC-aware rendering, sanitized inputs, content-security policies, strict routing guards, and safe third-party component usage.
• Optimize rendering pipelines supporting large datasets, long files, and dynamic case workloads using virtualization, lazy loading, and performance tuning.
• Build reusable design systems, theming layers, and accessibility-compliant components (Section 508).

Full-Stack Development & API Integration

• Integrate UI components with backend APIs providing document ingestion, entity metadata, LLM results, retrieval outputs, scoring engines, and memo-generation workflows.
• Implement client-side API wrappers, schema validation, request batching, and offline-safe patterns to improve robustness and reliability.
• Support event-driven features using WebSockets or streaming APIs to show live processing updates, workflow routing events, or LLM inference progress.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to co-design schemas that guarantee consistency, traceability, and audit-friendly communication across API boundaries.

Data Visualization, Evidence Representation & Risk Display

• Build interactive charts, timelines, relationship graphs, and risk-factor matrices visualizing SEAD-4 scoring, anomalies, evidence linkages, and adjudication logic.
• Develop UI components that present AI-generated outputs-including structured reasoning strings, classification labels, and model-confidence indicators-in clear and interpretable formats.
• Implement comparative displays allowing analysts to reconcile model outputs with source evidence, improving trust, transparency, and human-AI synergy.

Security, Compliance & Logging (FedRAMP High / RMF / ATO)

• Implement secure UI development practices including sanitized rendering, CSP headers, strict input validation, and secure embedding of documents and interactive content.
• Integrate client-side logging and audit-event capture ensuring adjudicator actions-reviews, overrides, memo edits, evidence expansions-are captured for ATO compliance.
• Ensure compliance with FedRAMP High, RMF, encryption-in-transit, session protection, idle timeouts, and controlled display of sensitive information.
• Collaborate with Security Engineers to provide UI-specific artifacts for SSPs, control-implementation statements, and audit requirements.

Performance Optimization & Reliability

• Optimize UI bundles using code splitting, lazy loading, caching strategies, and GPU-accelerated rendering when applicable.
• Implement diagnostics for client-side telemetry such as component load times, rendering bottlenecks, network degradation, and user-behavior traces.
• Support automated UI testing using Jest, Cypress, or Playwright, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines for stable and secure deployments.

Collaboration, Leadership & Mission Enablement

• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to safely integrate model outputs into UI workflows, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and mission-aligned interactions.
• Work closely with UX designers, policy SMEs, and adjudicators to map operational workflows into intuitive UI flows that improve review throughput and decision consistency.
• Participate in architecture reviews, sprint ceremonies, design workshops, and mission technical exchanges.
• Mentor junior frontend/full-stack engineers in secure UI development, design patterns, observability, accessibility, and federal compliance practices.

What You Will Need:

• An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "TOP SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance and obtained and maintain TS/SCI clearance.
• Minimum of Four (4) years of full-stack or frontend development experience, including 3+ years with React, Angular, or Vue.
• Bachelor' s Degree or Four (4) additional Years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Strong expertise with TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), REST/GraphQL integration, secure UI development, and state-management frameworks.
• Experience building workflow-driven or document-intensive UIs for complex enterprise systems.
• Experience designing applications in compliance with FedRAMP High, RMF, NIST 800-53, or other federal frameworks.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Experience building PDF viewers, annotation tools, or enterprise document-review systems.
• Experience integrating AI-assisted writing tools, LLM-powered UI components, or human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Familiarity with SEAD-4 adjudication, personnel vetting, investigative review, or continuous-vetting mission data.
• Experience working in national-security environments (FBI, IC, DoD, DHS).
• Experience with Material UI, Carbon, Clarity, Chakra, or other design-system frameworks.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

About Guidehouse

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