Full-Stack UI/UX Engineer for Real-Time Drone Ops

Swarm Defense; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Assistance

Comprehensive Health Benefits

Retirement Plan

Job summary

Swarm Defense is seeking a self-starting Full-Stack Software Developer with a sharp eye for frontend design and user experience. You will design, build, and maintain intuitive interfaces behind our drone operations software, collaborating with developers, operators and stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.

This role emphasizes visual polish, responsive interfaces, and real-time data displays, with opportunities to contribute across desktop and Android platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional frontend-focused software development.
• Portfolio showing interface and UX work you designed and shipped.
• Experience with React and TypeScript and familiarity with REST APIs and websockets.

Responsibilities

• Design and build interfaces for mission planning and live operations across desktop and Android.
• Turn operator workflows into wireframes, prototypes and polished UI.
• Ensure hand-controller first interfaces with touch as a secondary input.
• Maintain a shared component library and design system.
• Develop real-time visualizations including 2D/3D maps and live telemetry.
• Create backend features (REST and websocket services) to support interfaces.
• Participate in code reviews and improve testing, docs, and quality.

Skills

React TypeScript

UI/UX Design

Go or Python

REST & Websockets

Git / CI/CD

Tools

Figma

GitHub Actions

Mapbox GL

Job description

Swarm Defense is seeking a self-starting Full-Stack Software Developer with a sharp eye for frontend design and user experience. You will design, build, and maintain intuitive interfaces behind our drone operations software, collaborating with developers, operators and stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.

This role emphasizes visual polish, responsive interfaces, and real-time data displays, with opportunities to contribute across desktop and Android platforms.