UI​/UX Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Location
:
Fairfax, VA

Minimum Clearance Required to Start
:
Active TS to apply, ability to obtain an SCI

Join NASK and help shape the next generation of digital signal processing solutions for the nation’s most critical missions.

NASK has over twenty-five years of experience delivering innovative, mission-critical solutions to the Intelligence and Defense communities. Our teams combine deep technical expertise with a passion for solving the toughest challenges. Collaboration, innovation, and integrity define our culture - empowering engineers to create impactful solutions that advance national security objectives.

NASK builds resilient, scalable teams by pairing strong mentorship with meaningful leadership opportunities. The diversity of our missions creates constant opportunities to grow skills and take on new challenges. We value clear communication and collaboration, and we believe the best solutions can come from anyone on the team. Engineers at NASK are hands‑on. We prioritize rapid delivery of working mission solutions and favor measurable, incremental progress over perfection.

Engineers move the mission forward by writing code, collaborating with senior engineers, and working across teams to incorporate input from users, operators, and stakeholders.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain user‑facing software applications supporting national security missions.
• Build responsive, intuitive, and mission‑focused user interfaces using modern web technologies and GUI frameworks.
• Translate operational and user requirements into clean, intuitive, and effective UI/UX solutions.
• Develop reusable UI components, application workflows, dashboards, and interactive data visualizations.
• Integrate front‑end applications with RESTful APIs, backend services, databases, analytics platforms, and mission systems.
• Work closely with engineers, analysts, and mission users to understand workflows and improve the usability and effectiveness of software tools.
• Develop and maintain supporting backend services and APIs as needed to enable front‑end functionality.
• Optimize applications for performance, responsiveness, reliability, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve UI, integration, and application‑level defects across the software stack.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture and design discussions, Agile development activities, and collaborative development.
• Contribute to automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and Dev Sec Ops  practices.
• Support deployment and operation of applications in Linux‑based environments.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related technical field.
• Professional experience developing user‑facing software applications, web applications, or graphical user interfaces.
• Experience with modern front‑end development technologies, such as JavaScript, Type Script, React, Angular, or Vue.
• Experience developing responsive and interactive user interfaces.
• Experience integrating user interfaces with RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Experience developing software applications using Python.
• Familiarity with Git or similar source control systems and collaborative software development workflows.
• Experience working in Linux development environments.
• Strong understanding of software development principles, debugging, and application design.
• Strong problem‑solving skills with an ability to translate user and operational requirements into effective software solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with React, Type Script, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience designing or implementing UI/UX workflows, dashboards, data visualization, or interactive applications.
• GUI development experience using Qt/PyQt.
• Experience working with design tools such as Figma or collaborating directly with UI/UX designers.
• Experience developing applications that display and interact with large, complex, or real‑time datasets.
• Experience with Python data science and analytics libraries including Pandas, Num Py, and Sci Py.
• Experience working with relational…