UX Engineer (Center for Technology in Education)
Johns Hopkins University
The Center for Technology in Education in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University seeks a UX Engineer with a Frontend Focus for a casual on-call position. Reporting to the Program Director for Learning Design and Innovation, this position combines user-centered design expertise with frontend code implementation across multiple web-based educational technology projects. The ideal candidate excels at advanced CSS3 in frontend development, visual design, and translating complex information into intuitive interfaces.
The UX Engineer is responsible for the creation, implementation, maintenance, performance, production support and documentation of various departmental and enterprise-wide application systems. This includes but is not limited to the installation, modification, and testing of new and/or upgraded applications (packages or home grown), operating systems, file structures, hardware, communication devices, and productivity tools. Applies analysis techniques and procedures to gather and then translate business requirements into functional/technical specifications and designs. Using functional specifications and designs, produces all or part of the deliverables. Maintains databases and application system code.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Analysis & Requirements Gathering
- Define moderately complex business/clinical/education problems by meeting with clients to observe and understand current processes and the issues related to those processes. Provide written documentation of findings to share with the client and other IT colleagues.
- Gather moderately complex system requirements by meeting with clients and researching existing technology to understand the business requirements and possible solutions for new applications.
Design & Development
- Develop detailed tasks and project plans by analyzing project scope and milestones for moderately complex projects in order to ensure product is delivered in a timely fashion according to software lifecycle standards.
- Write functional/technical specifications by taking the provided moderately complex system requirements and putting them into functional and technical descriptions for use by programmers and business analysts to develop technical solutions.
- Develop/change data input, files/database structures, data transformation, algorithms, and data output by using appropriate computer language/tools to provide technical solutions for moderately complex application development tasks.
- Document code and associated processes by adhering to development methodologies, adding code comments and appropriate documentation to various knowledge-based system(s) to simplify code maintenance and to improve support.
Testing & Documentation
- Create and document moderately complex test scenarios using the appropriate testing tools to validate and verify application functionality.
- Test all changes by using the appropriate moderately complex test scenarios to ensure all delivered solutions work as expected and errors are handled in a meaningful way.
- Author and maintain documentation by writing audience-appropriate materials to serve as technical and/or end-user references.
Implementation & Maintenance
- Implement changes by adhering to the change management policies and procedures for any given project to communicate to all parties the nature, significance, and risk factors of the solution.
- Monitor changes and resolve moderately complex problems by responding as they occur, by reviewing all processing and output of the newly implemented solution, and by proactively ensuring the solution works successfully to satisfy the customer requirements and to provide a smooth transition to the new solution.
- Provide support by triaging and resolving moderately complex issues to ensure prompt, effective service.
- Other duties as assigned.
In addition to the duties described above
- Apply human-centered design principles and established usability and accessibility standards to design and develop intuitive, responsive, and accessible user experience for all learners.
- Create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups using industry-standard design tools.
- Write efficient, maintainable, and scalable frontend code using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
- Implement frontend enhancements, including advanced design patterns, animation, microinteractions, and data visualization in web interfaces.
- Partner with backend developers to integrate frontend interfaces with APIs and services.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Three years of related experience with computer systems and applications.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge in the assigned application as well as the platform on which it runs.
- Advanced skills in CSS3 is a must. Demonstrated expertise in HTML5 and JavaScript.
- Experience in responsive web design and digital accessibility, including WCAG 2.2 (AA and AAA levels), ARIA for interactive widgets, and assistive technology testing.
- A strong portfolio of work that includes examples of designing and building complex, responsive web applications, and feature both high-fidelity interactive prototypes (e.g., Figma) and links to live, implemented projects or code repositories (e.g., GitHub).
- Experience with leveraging AI tools to accelerate or enhance UI/UX design and frontend development products and workflows.
Technical Skills & Expected Level of Proficiency
- Agile Methodology - Developing
- Code Review - Developing
- Debugging - Developing
- JIRA - Developing
- Microservices - Developing
- Model View Controller - Developing
- Product Life Cycle Management - Developing
- Restful AP - Developing
- Secure Coding - Developing
- Software Design Patterns - Developing
- Software Development Life Cycle - Developing
- Unit Testing - Developing
The core technical skills listed are most essential; additional technical skills may be required based on specific division or department needs.
Classified Title: Developer III
Job Posting Title (Working Title): UX Engineer (Center for Technology in Education)
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PD
Starting Salary Range: $32.25 - $56.46 HRLY (Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Casual / On Call
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 10 - 18 hours per week
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Remote
Department name: Center for Technology in Education (CTE)
Personnel area: School of Education