Develop and implement UI/UX solutions using React and Agile methodologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience.
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.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements
- 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 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: ReactJS, React Native, AngularJS, Typescript, CSS, styling & theming using Material Design
- In-depth knowledge of the React Library (TypeScript, state management), as well as experience implementing UI screens from prototypes, wireframes, and/or mock-ups.
- Expert experience in the following programming languages/libraries: ReactJS, 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 Application) using ReactJS (TypeScript), backed by RESTful services.
- Object oriented design and development (OODD) expertise, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- Experience with source code control systems and concurrent development workflows (Git preferred)
- Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management.
Nice to Have:
- Mobile/responsive application UI design and implementation experience (as native apps or PWA).
- Experience with RESTful service creation using Java Spring 6.x/MVC/Spring boot.
- Experience with SQL or PL/SQL Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL Server databases.
- Understanding of system architecture concepts and experience with system design (defining service building blocks, data flow, caching strategies for UI assets, building systems with scalability, reliability, and maintainability in mind).
- DevOps experience/CI/CD pipeline.
- Experience deploying applications to Amazon AWS cloud or similar cloud vendor.
- Adaptable and work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team.
- Experience or have a strong interest in agile software development practices and delivering deployable software in short sprints
Benefits
- 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 assistance
- Training
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Referral program
- Paid Legal Plan
- and more....
Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance
US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED'
Top Skills
Angularjs
CSS
Git
Hibernate
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Postgres
React Native
React
Spring
Typescript
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