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As leaders in the open-source community and the DevSecOps industry, we run the world’s largest repository of Java open-source components-Maven Central.\nOur groundbreaking, full-spectrum platform empowers customers to rapidly create, deploy, and maintain innovative software at scale, all while aligning directly to their business needs. Trusted by more than 2,000 organizations-including 70% of the Fortune 100-and over 15 million software developers, Sonatype’s tools and guidance help deliver exceptional, secure software.\nFrom inventing modern artifact management with Nexus Repository to introducing the world’s only solution that halts malicious open-source malware in its tracks, we’re committed to constant innovation. We leverage AI/ML to give our clients, developers, and the industry complete confidence in the quality, automation, and security of their software. Learn more at www.sonatype.com\nRole Summary\nSonatype has evolved how product design works inside a modern engineering organization. We’ve moved beyond static Figma artifacts and are designing in code, co-creating solutions with engineering and PM, and leveraging AI to accelerate iteration and handoff.\nIf you’re a UX Engineer who thrives on understanding complex developer workflows, building real prototypes, and shaping UX with your team (not in an isolated Design bubble), you’ll be right at home here.\nWhat You Will Do - Core Work\nDevelop a deep understanding of Sonatype’s multi-product developer platform, personas, and core Jobs To Be Done.\n\nWork closely with PMs and engineers to co-create user flows and experience direction - UX leads the thinking, but the outputs are created and iterated on together, not in isolation.\n\nMap complex IA, developer workflows, permissions models, and multi-product interactions into clear, intuitive experience patterns.\n\nCreate user, product, and system flow diagrams in Miro that reflect real constraints, technical realities, and team input.\n\nShape conceptual designs and UX architectures for new features and continuous, iterative improvements.\n\nBuild coded UX prototypes using Claude Code, VS Code, GitHub workflows, and front-end fundamentals (HTML/CSS/JS/React).\n\nEnsure your prototypes are structured enough that AI tools can generate engineering specs, scope definitions, and implementation requirements directly from your code diffs.\n\nConduct lightweight, practical research (interviews, surveys, UAT, quick validation) when needed - and know when to proceed without research to keep momentum.\n\nCollaborate early and often to align constraints, scope, design direction, and technical feasibility.\n\nWhat You Will Do - Supporting Responsibilities\nFacilitate iterative design and exploration sessions with PMs and engineers; guide direction without owning every artifact yourself.\n\nProvide clear, structured UX reviews and guidance across product teams working on related areas.\n\nCoach engineers on UX fundamentals, usability, accessibility, and interaction patterns when it relates to a project - raising the UX baseline across teams.\n\nContribute high-fidelity coded prototypes that solve customer problems in clear, easy ways while working with our design system and existing user flows\n\nSupport the UX Guild’s goal of improving UX quality and alignment across teams without introducing heavy processes.\n\nHelp evolve our AI-accelerated design workflows and strengthen our design system alignment.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nYour prototypes aren’t just illustrative - they behave like real product experiences and provide enough structure for AI tools to generate engineering specs, scope, and implementation requirements directly from your code diffs.\n\nTeams ship better UX because your influence is pragmatic, collaborative, and grounded in technical realities.\n\nYou consistently transform complex developer and AppSec workflows into clear, coherent experiences.\n\nYou make smart calls about when to research and when to ship.\n\nYou adapt fluidly to evolving tools, processes, and AI-assisted workflows.\n\nYou communicate clearly with engineers, PMs, and stakeholders - zooming in or out as needed.\n\nWhat We Are Looking For\nExperience & Background\nSignificant experience designing enterprise software or developer platforms (typically 10-15+ years), with the maturity to influence across multiple product teams.\n\nExperience collaborating deeply with engineers; hybrid UX/engineering backgrounds are a strong plus.\n\nResearch Judgment\nSkilled at lightweight research (interviews, surveys, usability tests, UAT).\n\nAble to choose the right level of research for the moment - avoiding slow, academic processes.\n\nTechnical Fluency\nYou don’t need to be a full-stack engineer, but you must be comfortable building working UX prototypes:\nHTML/CSS/JavaScript\n\nReact familiarity\n\nGitHub, version control\n\nIDE + AI code editor pairings\n\nStrong interest in expanding your code prototyping skills and leveraging AI to accelerate them\n\nCore Strengths\nStrong UX judgment, especially in complex technical domains.\n\nAbility to simplify aggressively within real constraints.\n\nCollaborative, positive, and non-defensive - thrives in evolving workflows.\n\nClear communicator who works well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nAI Mindset: Curious, experimental, and excited to incorporate AI into design workflows. Comfortable using AI for structure, exploration, prototyping, and iteration.\n\nFluency in English - verbal and written communications\nThis Role Is Not For You If…\nYour first instinct is to open Figma to figure out what the team should build.\n\nYou prefer long discovery cycles, polished spec packages, or designing every state before engineering begins.\n\nCode-based prototyping feels uncomfortable or outside your identity as a designer.\nYou want to “own UX” rather than collaborate with engineers who share UX responsibility.\n\nYou need structured process, predictable phases, or linear design workflows.\nYou feel frustrated by changing tools, evolving methods, or AI-assisted workflows.\n\nWhy Join Sonatype\nInfluence UX across a multi-product developer platform used at massive scale.\n\nPrototype in real code environments and shape the future of design/engineering collaboration.\n\nHelp refine an AI-accelerated design workflow that’s growing and evolving quickly.\n\nWork at a company that genuinely cares about better user experiences\n\nContribute to a collaborative UX Guild culture focused on quality, not ceremony.\n\nSolve deep, technical UX challenges - not marketing flows or surface-level UI.\n\nIf you’re a UX Designer or UX Engineer who thinks in systems, builds in code, collaborates closely with engineers, and gets energy from evolving how design is done - this is the role for you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6873,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Colombia","iso":null,"kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Application Security","DevSecOps","Developer Tools"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-17T15:59:41Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":47,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":59,"expected_fill_days":44,"reasons":["conf:3","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sonatype-staff-ux-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sonatype-staff-ux-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T05:24:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":7294,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":20428},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=20428"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsonatype-staff-ux-software-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsonatype-staff-ux-software-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsonatype-staff-ux-software-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sonatype-staff-ux-software-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsonatype-staff-ux-software-engineer"}]}