UI/UX Developer (Remote)

General Dynamics Corporation; South Carolina; Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) with company match

Remote work

Paid time off

Job summary

General Dynamics Corporation is seeking a UI/UX Developer to build React SPAs with secure API integrations, responsive UI, and WCAG accessibility.

The role emphasizes workflow-driven UX for reconciliation and exception-management systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver performant interfaces for mission-critical applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years of UI/UX development experience.
• Strong React, JavaScript/TypeScript and SPA architecture expertise.

Responsibilities

• Build React SPAs with modular components, client-side routing, and robust state management.
• Integrate backend REST APIs with secure data handling and error management.
• Deliver responsive layouts using CSS grid, flexbox, and media queries.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across QA, backend, and DevOps.

Skills

UI/UX Design

UI Framework

User Experience (UX)

User Interfaces (UI)

Education

CS/IS degree

Job description

Responsibilities for this Position

Location: Any Location / Remote

Full Part/Time: Full time

Job Req: RQ227958

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: Other

Job Family: Technical Solutions

Job Qualifications:

Skills: UI/UX Design, UI Framework, User Experience (UX), User Interfaces (UI)

Certifications: None

Experience: 10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required: No

Job Description:

UI/UX Developer

We are seeking a frontend engineer skilled in building React SPAs with secure API integrations, responsive UI design, and WCAG-compliant accessibility. The ideal candidate excels at creating workflow-driven UX for reconciliation and exception-management systems, delivering performant, reliable interfaces while collaborating effectively across cross-functional teams.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As an UI/UX developer , the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the modernization mission of Federal Financial Agencies. You will play a crucial role and conduct UI experience analysis of our client's business processes, leverage the knowledge with your technical expertise in UI/UX design and applications functionality and provide technical leadership and guidance for the UI/UX development of mission-critical financial applications from IBM Mainframe platforms to modern, cloud-enabled, and server-based architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build React single-page applications using modular component architecture, client-side routing patterns, and robust state management.
• Implement the UI features, including drilldowns for out-of-balance conditions and structured exception review and approval workflows.
• Deliver responsive layouts using modern CSS approaches such as grid, flexbox, and media queries.

API Integration & Secure UI Behavior:

• Integrate backend APIs with secure data handling practices, schema validation, and structured error-management patterns.
• Implement protected routing, safe rendering behaviors, and secure session workflows aligned with reconciliation system requirements.
• Optimize UI performance for data-dense screens supporting reconciliation, exception tracking, and multi-step review processes.

Accessibility & Workflow Design:

• Apply WCAG accessibility guidelines through ARIA roles, keyboard navigation support, and semantic HTML usage.
• Design intuitive end-to-end UX workflows for exception flows, drilldowns, multi-step approvals, and audit-driven interactions.
• Debug complex state transitions, routing logic, and asynchronous data flow issues to ensure consistent and predictable UI behavior.

Collaboration & Documentation:

• Collaborate with backend, ingestion, reporting, and DevOps teams to ensure cohesive and high-quality end-to-end workflows.
• Document UI components, interaction patterns, integration contracts, and UX standards to support maintainability and future enhancements.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your initiative and drive for innovation to GDIT. The UI/UX Developer position requires expertise in mapping clients' business processes and User experience using industry standard tools common to UI/UX development

Required Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in React, JavaScript/TypeScript, SPA architecture, and component-driven development.
• Experience with React Router, centralized or modular state management (Redux, Zustand, Context API), and async data flows.
• Expertise in modern CSS (grid, flexbox, media queries) and responsive UI design patterns.
• Hands-on experience integrating RESTful APIs with secure data-handling, validation, and error-management practices.
• Familiarity with secure UI behaviors including protected routes, session handling, and safe rendering patterns.
• Working knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards, ARIA usage, and semantic HTML.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in debugging UI state, routing behaviors, and asynchronous workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building complex enterprise-grade workflows such as reconciliation processes, exception management, and multi-step approvals.
• Familiarity with performance optimization techniques for data-rich dashboards and transaction-heavy UI screens.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and DevOps collaboration for frontend deployment pipelines.
• Experience with UX documentation, design systems, and maintaining reusable UI component libraries.
• Exposure to backend systems, data ingestion pipelines, or reporting platforms to support end-to-end workflow alignment.
• Ability to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams, including product, QA, backend, and infrastructure groups.

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

Required Experience:

• 10 years of experience in UI/UX development and implentation.

Citizenship Required:

• US Person

Security Clearance Level:

• None

Location:

• Remote

• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your sense of ownership and pride in the meaningful work we do.

The likely salary range for this position is $171,507 - $232,039. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to