User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Developer
Sev1Tech
- USA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Conceiving and conducting user research, interviews, and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
- Design the overall customer-facing interface of the product and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience
- Optimize application front-end for maximum speed and usability
- Facilitate the customers' and product owners' product visions by researching, conceiving, wire framing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences
- Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
- Take a human-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs
- Collaborate with back-end and front-end developers to improve usability
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of designers, product managers, and engineers on all phases of the product development life cycle
- Incorporate best practices for accessibility, usability, web performance, and design into the product and ultimately champion a more consistent and delightful user experience
- Provide mentorship to other front-end engineers and designers in all aspects of UX development
- Perform subjective and objective research both qualitatively and quantitatively, to gather deep end-user understanding
- Perform usability/heuristic evaluations and validations across the product or solution life-cycle
- Must have DOD Secret level clearance to start; U.S. Citizen required only for Federal Clearance Requirement
- Certification Requirements: Directive 8570.1/8140 - IAT II: Security+
- BA/BS or equivalent experience
- Minimum 6 years (or Masters or equivalent experience and 4+ years) of experience in UI/UX development and/or product development
- Experience developing with Angular, React, Vaadin, or Vue
- Experience with CSS frameworks, JavaScript, jQuery
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment
- Experience employing an iterative, user-centric design process in UX design/interactive prototyping
- Experience taking input from multiple sources and synthesizing it into coherent design ideas
- Experience defining interaction models, creating userflows, storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes
- Detail-oriented and a highly motivated self-starter that is able to work closely in a collaborative role with other team members
- Excellent communication, collaboration and teaming skills and experience
- Navy experience
- SAFe experience and knowledge
- Designing/developing for Mobile Applications
- Knowledge of SEO principles
- Understanding of and/or experience designing for 508 Compliance