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Defense Unicorns

Front-End Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in United States
123K-201K Annually
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Hiring Remotely in United States
123K-201K Annually
Senior level
The role involves designing and implementing scalable front-end solutions, collaborating with UI/UX designers, and ensuring application usability for the US Navy team.
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Role Description: 

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Front-end Software Engineer with a deep passion for understanding mission heroes. You'll be joining Defense Unicorns’ US Navy team and be responsible for designing and implementing scalable solutions, owning end-to-end project delivery, and ensuring usability of a new application.  In this role you will work closely with other software engineers, end users, designers, and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities: 

  • Continually implement features and functionality to enhance the user experience
  • Collaborate with UX/UI designers and product managers to architect and design an innovative Interface that meets the needs of our users
  • Develop and execute comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and user acceptance tests to ensure the reliability and robustness of the UDS Interface
  • Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in UI development, and apply this knowledge to improve our products.
  • Communicate and execute in an asynchronous, all remote environment

The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
  • 6+ years experience with full-stack development teams
  • Kubernetes, DevOps, and Cloud experience
  • Experience with Svelte 5
  • Proficient in programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Java
  • Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, Svelte, etc.)
  • Familiarity with UI/UX design principles, tools, and systems such as Figma and Carbon Design System
  • Experience with CI/CD environments.
  • Proven ability to analyze complex problems, propose innovative solutions, and implement them effectively
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities

Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States. 

Remote - USA
$123,250$201,250 USD
Who We Are

Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

What We Do

We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.

Who We Serve

Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

What We Work On
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
  • Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
  • Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
  • GitOps
  • Containers
  • CNCF projects and open source products and packages
  • Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
  • Building and improving security delivery
  • Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications
Benefits Our Unicorns EnjoyHealth:
  • Medical/Dental/Vision
  • Premiums are 100% Company Paid
  • Health Reimbursement Account
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
Financial:
  • 401k Retirement Plan
  • Company Stock Options
  • Home Office Budget
Leave:
  • Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)
  • Paid Parental Leave
Learning:
  • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
  • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)

Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed. 

At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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Top Skills

Carbon Design System
Cloud
CSS
DevOps
Figma
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Python
Svelte 5
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Defense Unicorns Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Office

555 E Pikes Peak Ave, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, 80903

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