UX/UI Application Developer

Tsunami Tsolutions; Glastonbury (CT); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Tsunami Tsolutions is seeking a Staff UX/UI Application Developer to design and enhance customer-facing interfaces for aerospace programs. You will blend user-centered design with practical app development, ensuring intuitive, visually consistent solutions aligned with technical requirements.

The role requires organization, detail orientation, and collaboration across product, development, quality, training, and customer teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in UX/UI design and frontend application design.
• Ability to create wireframes, prototypes, and user flows.
• Experience with usability testing and incorporating feedback.

Responsibilities

• Research user needs, workflows, and system architecture to inform design choices.
• Create wireframes, flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes.
• Design layouts and navigation to be intuitive and visually consistent.
• Plan usability testing, gather feedback, and refine designs accordingly.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, SMEs, customers, and stakeholders.
• Produce clear functional specs and design docs to support development and testing.
• Learn product histories, processes, and training needs for the products.
• Participate in quality and process-improvement initiatives and adhere to workflows.

Skills

UX/UI design

Wireframes & prototypes

Usability testing

Jira & Agile

Documentation & training

Communication

Learning complex products

Tools

Jira

Job description

Tsunami Tsolutions is a leading provider of technology solutions tailored for the aerospace & defense sector and other highly regulated industries. We specialize in delivering innovative enterprise solutions that enhance operational efficiency, compliance, and decision-making for airlines, MROs, and aerospace manufacturers.

NOTE: This position requires access to technologies and hardware subject to U.S. national security-based export control requirements. All applicants must be U.S. Persons (8 USC 1324b(a)(3)), or otherwise authorized by the U.S. Government. No company sponsorship is offered.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Staff UX/UI Application Developer to support the design and enhancement of customer-facing applications for our military and aerospace programs. This role combines user-centered design thinking with practical application-development knowledge to create interfaces that are functional, intuitive, visually consistent, and aligned with technical requirements.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working across product, development, quality, training, and customer teams. Success in this role requires the ability to learn complex products and workflows, translate user and stakeholder needs into clear design solutions, and document specifications that support effective development and testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Research user needs, business workflows, and system architecture to inform application design decisions.
• Create wireframes, user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes for new features and application enhancements.
• Design layouts, navigation, and interactive elements that make application screens intuitive, visually engaging, and consistent.
• Plan and conduct usability testing, gather feedback, and refine designs based on findings.
• Partner and communicate effectively with product owners, application developers, subject matter experts, customers, and other stakeholders to align design concepts with business and technical requirements.
• Develop clear functional specifications and design documentation to support application development, testing, training, and maintenance.
• Learn and document the history, processes, training needs, and functional requirements of the products the company develops and supports.
• Participate in quality and continuous-improvement initiatives, identify opportunities to strengthen design and development practices, and champion adherence to Tsunami's Product Development Workflow and applicable ORCA processes.

Required Qualifications

• Professional experience in UX/UI design, application design, front-end application development, or a closely related field.
• Experience creating wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and functional design documentation.
• Working knowledge of usability testing methods and the ability to incorporate user feedback into design improvements.
• Familiarity with Jira and Agile software-development practices.
• Experience supporting software testing, documentation, or training activities.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, and customer-communication skills.
• Ability to learn complex products, technical processes, and customer workflows.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment and manage multiple priorities with close attention to detail.
• Must be a U.S. Person or otherwise authorized to access U.S. ITAR-controlled data.
• Must be willing and able to successfully complete a background investigation and drug screening.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, aviation, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience working with cross-functional software product teams and customer stakeholders.

Work Location and Conditions

• Position may be based in Glastonbury, Connecticut, or performed remotely, depending on business and project needs.
• Standard full-time work schedule, with flexibility required to support customer and project commitments.
• Occasional onsite work or deployment to customer or test locations may be required.