Junior Software Engineer (Frontend Focused)

What You Will Do

• Craft Intuitive UIs: Design and develop clean, responsive, and highly intuitive frontend interfaces to display complex mission data.
• Engage with Users: Communicate directly with analysts and operators to gather feedback, understand their workflows, and rapidly integrate their needs into software solutions.
• Automate & Streamline: Identify bottlenecks in operational workflows and build automated solutions to make our users more efficient.
• Collaborate & Learn: Work closely with a tight knit, cross functional team to solve ambiguous problems, even when starting with minimal initial knowledge of the domain.

What You Need To Have

• Experience: 3 or more years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline. Or 7 or more years of experience (substituting 4 years of additional engineering experience in place of a Bachelor's degree).
• Frontend Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Modern UI Frameworks: Proven experience developing web applications using frameworks such as React, Angular, or similar.
• Database Fundamentals: Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL).
• Modern Tooling: Basic knowledge of Docker containerization, experience using Git for version control, and comfort navigating and working within a Linux command-line environment.

What We'd Like You To Have

• If you have experience or interest in any of the following, we would love to talk to you:
• CNO Domain Knowledge: Prior experience working within the Computer Network Operations space.
• Expanded Tech Stack: Experience with backend frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Spring Boot) or other frontend libraries like Vue.js.
• Programming experience in Java, Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• NoSQL Databases: Experience with non-relational databases such as Elasticsearch or MongoDB.
• DevOps & Cloud: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab CI, Kubernetes, or Ansible.
• Advanced Analytics: Exposure to data science and machine learning concepts.

About BigBear.ai

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai’s predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit https://bigbear.ai/ and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.

Benefits

BigBear.ai is an Equal opportunity employer all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.