Senior User Experience (UX) Software Engineer

Peraton • Annapolis Junction, MD

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About The Position

The team is seeking a highly motivated User Experience software engineer to support development and software solutions to support data tracking and metrics solutions. The selected candidate will join an experienced team working on efforts to modernize an existing data tracking and metrics system. The User Experience (UX) developer should be able to focus on developing highly usable end user interfaces, applying UI best practices and UX principles.

Requirements

• TS/SCI with Polygraph level clearance is required
• BA/BS and 20 years of experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• The candidate will need a strong background in Linux, CSS, JavaScript and HTML to be able to develop, debug maintain, and deploy the UI application.
• The candidate needs to know how to work independently within small team and able to engage with a larger team.
• (5) years of experience and have familiarity with task analysis, user interface design, and usability testing
• Experience in each of the usability and software engineering cycle phases (analysis, design, implementation, and deployment)
• UI/UX experience
• 508 Compliance
• Experience with React
• CSS, Javascript, HTML
• MVC
• Full Stack experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with the following: GoLang, Python, Java, Hadoop, Accumulo core AWS services
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration
• Apache NiFi
• REST
• JMS
• Building or maintaining cloud-native applications
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• Having used EMR, EC2 and various Databases is a plus

Responsibilities

• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with systems engineers and developers across projects to support the planning, design, development, and utilization of a final product recommendation.
• Work directly with the customer and team to evolve requirements and support the creation and presentation of design documents and product demonstrations.
• Product evaluation, integration, testing and design process for data tracking and metrics solutions.
• Participate in Agile development activities, to include Sprint planning, scheduling, and Jira ticket management.
• Ensure software standards and best practices are utilized.
• Work closely with users (analysts) to research for and document user profiles, analysis tasks, workflows, and user scenarios
• Work with users to collect and document user performance requirements
• Create user interface design specifications, as required
• Work closely with product designers and process engineers to develop applications
• Conduct usability testing
• Design and develop user surveys to obtain user feedback

Benefits

• Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees supporting this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level