UI/UX Engineer

Accountabilities

• • Design-to-development delivery: Translate UX research, user insights, and high-fidelity prototypes into responsive, accessible, performant front-end applications and reusable React components.
  • Human-centered design: Apply HCD and usability principles throughout Agile development cycles, ensuring solutions are aligned with user needs and program objectives.
  • UI engineering: Develop production-ready interfaces using React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3/Sass, responsive design principles, and reusable component architectures.
  • Accessibility and compliance: Evaluate and improve interfaces against Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA requirements, supporting accessibility validation and compliance reporting.
  • Design systems: Establish and maintain UI/UX and front-end standards, contribute reusable templates and components, and promote consistent design-system adoption.
  • Usability testing: Conduct and support heuristic evaluations, card sorting, A/B testing, prototyping, and other validation methods to improve task completion and user satisfaction.
  • Agile collaboration: Work closely with product owners, architects, developers, HCD specialists, QA, and compliance teams throughout iterative sprint cycles.
  • Quality assurance: Partner with QA and compliance teams to validate usability, accessibility, consistency, and performance before production releases.
  • Continuous improvement: Use feedback, analytics, emerging technologies, and industry best practices to identify opportunities for improving digital experiences and reducing post-release defects.
  • Documentation and governance: Produce HCD implementation plans, accessibility reports, design documentation, and other artifacts aligned with program, Agile, and governance requirements.
  • Stakeholder engagement: Present design and engineering rationale to technical and non-technical audiences, build strong customer relationships, and provide clear recommendations for improvement.
  • Innovation: Explore emerging UX technologies, AI-assisted design tools, predictive usability approaches, and secure interface practices to enhance user experiences.

  Requirements

  • Experience: 10+ years of general information systems experience and 8+ years of specialized UI/UX design and development experience, including substantial Human-Centered Design work supporting enterprise or government applications.
  • Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related field. Equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • Front-end development: Strong proficiency in React, including reusable functional components, state and props management, responsive interfaces, and production application integration.
  • Web technologies: Strong command of JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Sass or other CSS preprocessors, and responsive design principles.
  • UX design: Expertise in usability testing and research techniques such as heuristic evaluation, card sorting, A/B testing, prototyping, and iterative validation.
  • Design tools: Proficiency with tools such as Figma, Sketch, Miro, Axure, InVision, and Storybook or comparable platforms.
  • Federal accessibility: Practical experience with Section 508, WCAG, and accessibility validation tools such as Axe, WAVE, Color Oracle, or Siteimprove.
  • Agile delivery: Strong understanding of Agile/SAFe methodologies and the ability to integrate UX and engineering activities into iterative delivery environments.
  • Government experience: Experience designing digital products for federal programs, government modernization initiatives, or complex case management environments is highly valuable.
  • Design governance: Familiarity with DesignOps, UX governance, design systems, and reusable UI component strategies.
  • Analytics: Exposure to data-driven UX optimization using tools such as Google Analytics, Hotjar, or similar platforms.
  • Security: Understanding of secure user interface principles and Zero Trust design concepts.
  • Communication: Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior customers.
  • Consulting mindset: Ability to work independently and collaboratively, build trusted stakeholder relationships, analyze complex problems, and translate findings into practical recommendations.
  • Preferred certifications: Certified Usability Analyst, Certified HCD Professional, SAFe Agile Practitioner, Section 508 Trusted Tester, or recognized UX/HCD certifications such as NN/g, IDEO, or HFI.

  Benefits

  • Salary: Likely annual salary range of $128,039–$173,229, with actual compensation determined by experience, location, and applicable contractual requirements.
  • Work arrangement: Fully remote position with a standard 40-hour work week.
  • Travel:No travel required.
  • Healthcare: Multiple medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts, plus dental and vision coverage.
  • Retirement: 401(k) plan with employer matching and pre-tax/post-tax contribution options.
  • Paid time off: Vacation, sick, personal, and holiday leave, with typically 15 days of paid leave plus 10 paid holidays for new employees, prorated where applicable.
  • Family benefits: Paid parental leave and up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.
  • Insurance and protection: Short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, critical illness, personal accident, and business travel insurance options.
  • Work-life balance: Flexible work arrangements where available and a range of paid leave programs.
  • Career development: Access to AI-powered career tools, learning opportunities, and internal mobility resources.
  • Innovation-focused environment: Opportunity to contribute to high-impact digital modernization initiatives involving cloud, accessibility, cybersecurity, and advanced software engineering.