Senior UI/UX Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior UI/UX Developer
• Focus: Cumulus Dashboard UI development (design → production deployment)
• Pay range: $80,000–$105,000
• Location: Silver Spring, MD 20910 (Primary)
• Education: Bachelor’s degree
• Eligibility: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

Description

The Senior UI/UX Developer is a senior technical SME and implementer improving the Cumulus Dashboard user interface—from design through production deployment. The role builds scalable UI infrastructure, optimizes core UI components, and maintains system health using CI/CD pipelines, performance testing, and incident response. It also integrates AWS-based backup/preservation strategies and produces thorough feature documentation while collaborating with UX and engineering stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and continuously improve foundational Cumulus Dashboard software for scalability and throughput
• Develop and optimize dashboard software, including internal libraries and APIs
• Integrate data backup and preservation using AWS S3 versioning, locking, and cross-region/cross-cloud strategies
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for developed features
• Translate technical requirements from Systems Architect, Systems Engineer, and Cloud-Infrastructure Engineer
• Ensure designs adhere to documented SLAs
• Execute CI/CD, system testing, and performance testing for updates
• Maintain standards-driven CI/CD pipelines and automated testing support
• Maintain automated unit/integration tests and documentation for new features
• Perform sustainment tasks (security updates, system health monitoring)
• Address bugs/issues according to SLAs
• Conduct deep-dive root cause analysis (RCA) to prevent recurring failures
• Communicate system status and resolution progress to product and operations stakeholders
• Design, develop, and publish UI components for operational deployment
• Apply expert front-end design principles to build scalable, accessible, high-performance UIs
• Collaborate with UX designers, domain experts, and backend engineers to build intuitive operational interfaces

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, preferably Agile (Scrum or SAFe)
• Atlassian tool suite experience: JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo
• Development on macOS and deployment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Expert experience building UI for AWS-based deployment/hosting
• Proven ability to build/optimize core UI libraries, component systems, and APIs
• Demonstrated commitment to automated testing, CI/CD, and documentation
• Strong troubleshooting for UI performance and infrastructure bottlenecks
• Programming proficiency: JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Terraform
• React strongly desired
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident