UI​/UX React Developer

Overview

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Ready to ignite your career and work alongside innovative technology professionals? Join us and unleash your potential 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. As a UI/UX and React developer, you operate as part of a dynamic team supporting best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

You will focus on delivering software solutions for customer-defined systems and software projects by collaborating with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

• Providing UI development for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles
• Collaborating closely with business analysts, software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes
• Designing, developing, and implementing custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight
• Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates with a positive, do-what-it-takes attitude to ensure product and team success
• Providing improvements to the product(s) being supported
• Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations, retrospectives, and solution releases
• Supporting release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines
• Analyzing complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components
• Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
• Bridge the gap between user interface design and technical implementation
• Maintain passion for user experience and user-centric development
• Continuously research new and best design and coding practices
• Demonstrate strong communication skills including leading design discussions and fostering collaboration
• Provide mentoring to junior team members

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation (criteria include but are not limited to): 3 year check for felony convictions; 1 year check for illegal drug use; 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud
• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or related discipline
• Seven (7) or more years of technical experience with software design, development, and implementation targeting web browsers and mobile devices or related roles
• Demonstrable professional experience with UI development stack:
  React
  
  JS, React Native, Angular
  
  JS, Typescript, CSS, theming using Material Design
• In-depth knowledge of React Library (Type Script, state management) and experience implementing UI screens from prototypes, wireframes, and/or mock-ups
• Expert experience in React
  
  JS, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Knowledge of creating React components, services, and routing; understanding of state management (Redux) and UI performance considerations
• Experience creating reusable libraries and components, developing interactive interfaces, and leading quality through reviews/tests
• Experience implementing features by transforming mockups into UI integrated with API-enabled backend built on Spring/Java/Hibernate/Postgres
• Experience developing SPA (Single Page Application) using React
  
  JS (Type Script), backed by RESTful services
• OODD, SOA experience; familiarity with SDLC including planning, requirements management, configuration management, QA, and release management
• Experience with source code control systems and concurrent development workflows (Git preferred)
• Understanding of SDLC elements including planning, development, requirements management, CM, QA, and release management

• Mobile/responsive UI design and implementation experience (native apps or PWA)
• Experience with RESTful service creation using Java Spring 6.x/MVC/Spring boot
• Experience with SQL/PL/SQL Oracle, MySQL, or Postgre
  
  SQL databases
• Understanding of system architecture concepts and system design (defining service building blocks, data flow, caching strategies, scalability, reliability, and maintainability)
• Dev Ops experience/CI/CD pipeline
• Experience deploying applications to AWS or similar cloud
• Adaptable and able to work with a technically diverse and geographically separated team
• Interest or experience in agile software development practices and delivering deployable software in short sprints

• 401(k) with matching and 100% vested
• Health Insurance - 3 plans to select from
• Dental insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• AD&D
• Paid time off
• Professional development…