Software Engineer – Remote

ApTask Global Workforce; New York (NY); Remote; USD 70,000 - 117,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Sick Pay

Job summary

ApTask Global Workforce is seeking a Software Engineer for a remote, 7+ month contract with a leading technology firm in New York, NY. This role centers on UX for an internal requirements management platform used for XR hardware and software.

You will collaborate with systems engineers, architects and TPMs to make thousands of requirements legible and safely editable, redesign screens and graphs, and produce dev-ready specs.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of UX/product design experience with a portfolio of shipped work.
• Experience designing data-dense enterprise or internal tooling (tables, graphs, hierarchies, admin surfaces).
• Strong Figma skills with components, variants, and design-system contribution.
• Ability to interview technical users and translate domain complexity into clear interfaces.
• Excellent written communication in an async environment.

Responsibilities

• Work across a rolling set of focused design problems, typically delivered in 1-2 weeks
• Redesign individual screens and user flows such as document creation, requirement editing, dependency linking, and coverage views
• Improve dense table and graph views, focusing on information hierarchy, filtering, bulk actions, and empty/error states
• Take a short problem statement, scope it independently, and propose an approach before designing
• Turn engineer- and TPM-reported friction (including bugs and feedback) into concrete design fixes
• Produce dev-ready specs and partner with engineers through build and QA
• Sequence your own work against milestones and keep status visible to a distributed team

Skills

UX design

Figma

Data-dense interfaces

Communication

Interviewing technical users

Self-directed work

Tools

Figma

Job description

Aptask Global Workforce (AGW) is seeking a Software Engineer for a Remote position with a Leading Technology Firm located in New York, NY. This is a 7+ month contract opportunity.

This role will focus on the user experience for our client’s internal requirements management platform used for XR hardware and software programs. The ideal candidate will work with a variety of technical, high-context users, including systems engineers, architects, and TPMs, to make a graph of thousands of requirements legible and safely editable.

Responsibilities:

• Work across a rolling set of focused design problems, typically delivered in 1-2 weeks
• Redesign individual screens and user flows such as document creation, requirement editing, dependency linking, and coverage views
• Improve dense table and graph views, focusing on information hierarchy, filtering, bulk actions, and empty/error states
• Take a short problem statement, scope it independently, and propose an approach before designing
• Turn engineer- and TPM-reported friction (including bugs and feedback) into concrete design fixes
• Produce dev-ready specs and partner with engineers through build and QA
• Sequence your own work against milestones and keep status visible to a distributed team

Requirements:

• 4+ years of UX/product design experience with a portfolio of shipped work
• Proven experience designing data-dense enterprise or internal tooling such as tables, graphs, hierarchies, and admin surfaces
• Strong Figma skills including components, variants, and design-system contribution
• Track record of self-directed work with multiple concurrent deliverables and light supervision
• Ability to interview technical users and translate domain complexity into clear interfaces
• Excellent written communication in an async environment

Desired skills:

• Experience with requirements management, PLM, ALM, or traceability tools (DOORS, Jama, Polarion, or similar)
• Familiarity with hardware development or systems engineering processes (V-model, verification, change control boards)
• Background in developer tools or technical enterprise software
• Prototyping ability for validating complex interactions

Pay range: up to $85.27 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Aptask Global Workforce (AGW) employees will be considered for this position.

Aptask Global Workforce (AGW)

ApTask Global Workforce (AGW) is a certified Minority and Veteran workforce solutions company. AGW delivers operational, clinical, lab and professional talent with a strong focus on healthcare and life sciences. The company supports clients with reliable staffing, program expertise and a commitment to quality, speed and consistent delivery.

Benefits of working with ApTask Global Workforce include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)

Our team stays close to the process and is here to guide you every step of the way. To learn more, please visit our website

ApTask Global Workforce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.