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title: 'UI Developer (React) at Blink UX'
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# UI Developer (React) at Blink UX

- **Company:** Blink UX
- **Location:** San Diego, CA
- **Compensation:** $115k–$135k
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/blinkux/47c561a4-0757-4eaa-9416-e758a59a9c61

## Job description

Blink UX is the product design firm crafting your next breakthrough. We partner with ambitious companies like Amazon, Google, and NASA to create transformative products and experiences through strategy, research, and design. With headquarters and labs in Seattle and studios in Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, New York City, and Bengaluru, we partner with clients around the world. This opportunity is a part of Blink's Embedded practice which supports long-term opportunities with some of Blink’s largest client partners. Location: hybrid - 3-5 days per week onsite in San Diego, CA Duration: 6 months to start -

We are looking for a UI Developer to build engaging, responsive, and accessible interfaces for our client's enterprise e-commerce platform. The ideal candidate has strong JavaScript and React experience, working knowledge of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), and a strong design sensibility. This role is primarily focused on maintaining, updating, and improving the existing product, with some involvement in new feature development. This person should bring a broad range of front-end experience and be comfortable jumping in to support various initiatives as priorities shift.

## What you'll be doing

- Maintain, update, and improve existing UIs for our client's e-commerce platform using React, with some work in AEM
- Debug and resolve front-end issues across browsers and devices; optimize for performance, scalability, and cross-browser compatibility
- Analyze functional/technical design docs and UI wireframes for new features and enhancements
- Translate design concepts and business requirements into polished, functional interfaces
- Build reusable components and contribute to a scalable design system, including new AEM components as needed
- Handle edge cases, error states, and dynamic data s cenarios
- Collaborate with UX designers and engineers on requirements and implementation
- Document components and maintain style guides for consistency

## What we are looking for

- 5+ years working in a UI Developer or Front End Engineer focused role
- Extensive JavaScript experience and modern frameworks and libraries such as React
- Responsive design expertise across devices and screen sizes, as well as cross-browser compatibility knowledge
- Familiarity with version control systems (Git)
- Experience with UI development tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD)
- Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
- Experience building and maintaining design systems or reusable component libraries
- Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG)
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Problem-solving and debugging abilities

Blink is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status or disability.

## About Blink UX

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blink UX is a product design consulting firm that partners with ambitious companies to create breakthrough products and experiences through strategy, research, and design.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Mphasis Limited in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on provided sources; the company was originally founded as Blink Interactive, Inc.

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Design Services, User Experience (UX) Research & Design
- Target customers: B2B, enterprise clients (e.g., Amazon, JPMorganChase, Google, NASA, Meta, The New York Times, Qualcomm, Blue Cross Blue Shield)
- Mission: To enrich people’s lives — including employees, clients, and their customers — by turning insight into action and creating inspired, evidence-driven digital experiences.

## Products & Services
- **UX Research & Strategy**: Qualitative and quantitative research, usability testing, insight generation, and product strategy.
- **Product Design**: Full-service product design from concept to launch, including interaction design, visual design, and prototyping.
- **AI & Design Innovation**: Specialized services in AI readiness, conversational design, and intelligent product experiences.
- **Insight Space**: A division offering qualitative research recruiting and facilities, including modern usability labs and focus group spaces.
- **Embedded Talent**: Placing UX professionals on long-term contract assignments with clients’ teams.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Acquired by Mphasis in September 2021 for $94 million (not current valuation).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $19.7 million (as of most recent data).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company Mphasis (a digital IT services provider); clients include Amazon, NASA, JPMorganChase, Google, Meta, The New York Times, Qualcomm, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Starbucks, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 20 years in business; 5 offices across the US (Seattle, San Diego, New York, San Francisco, Cambridge); 129 employees (though -9.2% YoY headcount decline); ranked #3 Best Workplace in Washington (midsize) by Puget Sound Business Journal; acquired three companies (Blue Flavor, Redshift Digital, Tectonic) to expand capabilities.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Evidence-driven design**: Strong emphasis on research and data to inform decisions, not just intuition.
- **Deep client roster**: Decades-long relationships with top-tier global brands.
- **Comprehensive service offering**: Strategy, research, design, and development under one roof.
- **Culture framework**: An eight-pillar cultural framework based on cognitive psychology to guide management and employee experience.
- **Part of Mphasis**: Access to a larger global IT services network while maintaining a boutique consulting culture.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: Expanding capabilities in AI-driven design, as seen in roles like Lead AI Conversation Designer and AI Readiness Content Strategist.
- **Embedded talent**: Growing the division that places designers on long-term client contracts.
- **Continued specialization**: Deepening expertise in financial services, healthcare, and other regulated industries.
- **Hybrid work model**: Balancing remote flexibility with in-office collaboration across five US offices.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, supportive environment with a strong focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and employee well-being. Offers diversity-based Employee Resource Groups.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid workspace with flexible hours and a generous work-from-home policy (employees engage in a mix of remote and on-site work).
- **Perks**:
  - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums.
  - Robust PTO and 12 weeks fully paid parental leave.
  - Companywide profit-sharing plan (quarterly distributions).
  - $1,000 annual professional development stipend.
  - Three-month sabbatical after five years of employment.
  - Performance bonuses.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on creativity, innovation, and lifelong learning; managers are trained in the company’s eight-pillar cultural framework.
- **Reviews**: 4.1/5.0 on employer rating (53 reviews) with high marks for work-life balance (4.7) and culture (4.0). Compensation and career growth rated lower (3.5 each).
- **Open Roles**: UX Designer (Financial Services), Instructional Designer, Director of Client Relations, Senior UX Designer, Content Designer, Lead AI Conversation Designer, etc.

## Sources
1. [blinkux.com](https://blinkux.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/blink-ux)
3. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/blinkux)
4. [blinkux.com](https://blinkux.com/about)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/blink)

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