UI / UX Developer

Job Description

Job Description

Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in innovative technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity.

!!! Long-Term Government Contract for Leading Edge Technologies !!!

As a UI / UX developer of an Agile team you will be responsible for creating intuitive, user-centered designs and developing responsive, interactive user interfaces that are maintainable, efficient and reliable as part of a dynamic and passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You will bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team will be key to the overall success.

Requirements

• Experience working collaboratively to communicate effectively through websites and web applications that are easy for real people to use and responsive across all device viewports
• 5 + years’ experience in UI / UX development
• Professional experience with enterprise UI design tools such as Figma (preferred), or similar tools
• Professional experience communicating designs with stakeholders such as product owners, end users, development teams, and management
• Ability to understand trade-offs between designs, technical feasibility, and maintenance
• Proficiency in development and maintenance of web applications using React, Angular, JavaScript, browser technologies such as HTML, HTTP and CSS and JavaScript framework such as Kendo UI.
• Familiarity with Java and associated frameworks such as Spring / Spring boot
• Familiarity with our tech stack : Java 17, Spring / Spring boot, React, UI state management, ORM such as Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitLab or Bamboo
• Stay current on important industry and customer trends to ensure our applications are delivering relevant solutions
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders inside the company and with customer groups to drive effective solutions
• Use data, validation, and feedback strategies that deliver code backed by qualitative and quantities testing
• Experience with responsive and mobile-first development
• Willing to take risks and champion new ideas.
• Have experience developing applications, from consumer facing to internal tools
• Maintain a user-centered approach while respecting business needs
• Able to work and be effective in an agile design environment
• Working knowledge of and ability to assist others in the use of design tools to support process improvement (Figma, Axure, Sketch, Invision, XD, etc)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong work ethics and a self-starter
• Preferred : Design Thinking certifications such as those offered through IDEO, Stanford, Cornell, MIT or a host of other organizations
• Preferred : Proven experience designing for web accessibility (Section 508 standards)
• Preferred : Experience with information architecture
• Preferred : Ability and interest in educating others on user-centered design best practices
• Preferred : Advanced understanding of Lean processes, and Agile principles

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