UI​/UX React Developer

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. As an UI/UX and React developer, you operate 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 be focused on the delivery of software solutions associated with customer-defined systems and software projects by working in close collaboration with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

• Providing UI development for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles.
• Working in close collaboration 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 and collaborating with a 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 and 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 advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports.
• Ability to bridge the gap between user interface design and technical implementation.
• Passionate for user experience and user-centric development.
• Continuously research new and best design and coding practices.
• Strong communication skills that include leading design-related conversations, ability to build and nurture good relationships and foster an environment for collaboration.
• Providing mentoring to junior members of the team.

• 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 a 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 our UI development tech stack:
  React
  
  JS, React Native, Angular
  
  JS, Typescript, CSS, styling & theming using Material Design.
• In-depth knowledge of the React Library (Type Script, state management), as well as experience implementing UI screens from prototypes, wireframes, and/or mock-ups.
• Expert experience in the following programming languages/libraries:
  React
  
  JS, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
• Knowledge of creating React components, services, and routing; good understanding of state management (Redux) and UI performance considerations such as, but not limited to, reducing file sizes, bundling assets, and asynchronous data loading.
• Demonstrable experience creating reusable libraries and components, developing interactive and responsive interfaces, implementing complex solutions, encouraging quality code through conducting reviews/leading tests.
• Experience implementing new features by transforming mockups into fully functional user interfaces integrated with API enabled backend built on Spring/Java/Hibernate/Postgres based backend.
• Demonstrated professional experience with developing SPA (Single Page…