Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our Fleet team, focused on building and evolving Fleet Management and Edge Management capabilities within the UDS platform.
This role is centered on developing complex, data-driven interfaces that allow users to understand, manage, and operate distributed systems across edge and remote environments. These are not simple CRUD interfaces—they are operational control surfaces for real-world systems.
You will own and drive the frontend experience, while working across the stack to ensure tight alignment between UI behavior, APIs, and underlying system capabilities.
You’ll collaborate closely with backend engineers, platform engineers, and designers to build responsive, reliable, and intuitive experiences on top of complex APIs and distributed system state.
While frontend-focused, this role requires strong full-stack awareness—understanding how data flows through systems, how APIs are designed, and how frontend decisions impact system behavior, especially in asynchronous and distributed environments.
What You’ll Work On:- Building interfaces for managing individual assets and large fleets of systems
- Designing and implementing data-rich UIs that reflect real-time and distributed system state
- Developing workflows for deploying, updating, and monitoring systems across environments
- Handling complex state management and asynchronous data flows
- Integrating frontend applications with backend APIs and platform services
- Improving usability and clarity for technically complex operations
- Partnering with UX to translate complex system behavior into intuitive user experiences
- Design and build scalable, maintainable frontend applications
- Collaborate with product, UX, and backend engineers to define and implement features
- Translate complex backend capabilities into clear and usable interfaces
- Write clean, testable, and well-structured code
- Develop and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end)
- Contribute to frontend architecture and technical decisions
- Identify and improve performance, reliability, and usability issues
- Work effectively in a remote, asynchronous environment
Travel Expectations/Requirements: 0-5%
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:- 5+ years of experience in frontend or fullstack development
- Strong proficiency with modern frontend frameworks (Svelte or React preferred; Angular or similar frameworks acceptable)
- Strong familiarity with modern frontend tooling and build system best practices
- Experience with testing strategies across frontend applications
- Experience building data-intensive or state-heavy applications
- Strong understanding of API design and integration (REST, GraphQL, etc.)
- Experience working closely with backend systems and distributed architectures
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate complex systems
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience building interfaces for infrastructure, DevOps, or platform systems
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, or distributed systems concepts
- Experience designing for constrained or unreliable network environments
- Contributions to open source or developer tooling projects
- Experience with CI/CD and deployment pipelines
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.
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 DoWe 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 ServeDefense 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
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s
- Paid Parental Leave
- 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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