Lead UI Developer

Arctic Wolf, with its unicorn valuation, is the leader in security operations in an exciting and fast-growing industry—cybersecurity. We have won countless awards for our excellence in security operations and remain dedicated to providing an industry-leading customer and employee experience.

Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Lead UI Developer to be a part of making this happen.

About the Role

The UI Developer is an essential contributor to the R&D organization by helping bridge the gap between UX Design and Agile Development at Arctic Wolf. They are involved in all aspects of the research, prototyping and implementation of user interfaces that solve problems for our customers. UI Developers bring engineering knowledge and user context to the Agile team to help make well-informed design decisions that are technically feasible, testable and maintainable. They bring expertise of Front-End technologies and Javascript development and help mentor other developers as a subject matter expert. They also bring empathy for the user and deep problem-space understanding to the engineering team by sharing insights, knowledge and research and help define what success means and how to measure it.

A Lead Developer is responsible for providing the team technical direction to deliver high value, performant software solutions. The Lead Developer will provide technical guidance and direction to a team of developers through the design, implementation and automated/integration testing of our software. They will also provide guidance on best practices for running, monitoring, and maintaining our system. This is different from a Team Lead. The Team lead is responsible for leading the team and projects that team works on.

Responsibilities Include:

Implement the visual design aesthetic, interaction design system, and front-end processes and app architecture for Arctic Wolf.

Write production code with a focus on the user’s experience, crafting interaction patterns that are reusable, inclusive, and performant.

Create a set of common functions and hooks to enable the sharing of reusable code

Promote accessibility and implement interfaces that everybody enjoys regardless of what input device they use.

Contribute to the Arctic Wolf Design System: A UX Platform for web development at Arctic Wolf.

You will support R&D teams to create great products and user experiences by collaborating in a research-driven process, communicating a common Design Language, and building an optimized UI framework that makes doing UI Development faster and more efficient. The UI Developer will be an essential contributor to the R&D organization by helping bridge the gap between UX Design and Agile Development at Arctic Wolf.

We value a culture of sharing, so every R&D team has the opportunity to share their work with the entire department during our monthly R&D Demos. Once a year we hold a department-wide Hackathon, teaming up across all R&D teams over four days to collaborate and build cool ideas outside the normal project -

Responsibilities Include:

Develop, maintain, and improve our UI component libraries that are the building blocks for all web development at Arctic Wolf

Help design and develop the Arctic Wolf Design System: A UX Platform for web development at Arctic Wolf.

Design and implement the visual design aesthetic, interaction design system, and front-end processes and app architecture for Arctic Wolf.

Write production code with a focus on the user’s experience, crafting interaction patterns that are reusable, inclusive, and performant.

Create a set of common functions and hooks to enable the sharing of reusable code

Promote accessibility and implement interfaces that everybody enjoys regardless of what input device they use.

Create comprehensive documentation that is clear and concise for developers to consume and easy for designers to update and improve over time.


Contribute to the growth and mentorship of other team members

You will support and lead R&D teams to create great products and user experiences by collaborating in a research-driven process, communicating a common Design Language, and building an optimized UI framework that makes doing UI Development faster and more efficient. The UI Developer will be an essential contributor to the R&D organization by helping bridge the gap between UX Design and Agile Development at Arctic Wolf.

About You

You have a passion for design. You may or may not be classically trained but you’ve got proven experience, talent, and keen interest in designing great user experiences. You leverage a wide range of visual design principles and skills to create themes and interfaces that are attractive, engaging and professional.

You should be an expert in working with technologies such as:

Web components

Javascript modules

Service workers

TypeScript Progressive Web Apps

HTML5 and CSS (including pre-processors such as Less/Sass/Stylus)

In addition, you have proven leadership experience from previous projects, regardless of title held. You have the ability build designs and workflows for large engineering projects with independence and expertise. You will be responsible for guiding and mentoring other staff members and will regularly UX/UI projects. You have a high level of mastery over design best practices and building reusable design patterns.

You have a history of delivering successful projects, as well as some lessons learned from failures. Even if you haven’t worked with all of our specific technologies, you bring a diverse knowledge base that you use to help the team solve complex technical problems. You’ll receive all the security training you need during our onboarding process and through additional training on the job.

About Arctic Wolf

At Arctic Wolf we’re cultivating a collaborative and productive work environment that welcomes a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and ideas to make our teams even stronger as we grow globally. We’ve been named one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the world for 2022 (Fast Company)—and the 2nd Most Innovative Security Company. We have won countless awards for our excellence in security operations and remain dedicated to providing an industry-leading customer and employee experience including:

Top Workday USA (2021-2024)

Great Place to Work (2022-2024) & Best Workplaces for Women (2024) in Canada

Best Workplaces in Tech & For Women in the UK (2023)

Top Company by Kununu in Germany (2024)

Our Values

Arctic Wolf recognizes that success comes from delighting our customers, so we work together to ensure that happens every day. We believe in diversity and inclusion, and truly value the unique qualities and unique perspectives all employees bring to the organization. And we appreciate that—by protecting people’s and organizations’ sensitive data and seeking to end cyber risk— we get to work in an industry that is fundamental to the greater good. 

We celebrate unique perspectives by creating a platform for all voices to be heard through our Pack Unity program. We encourage all employees to join or create a new alliance. See more about our Pack Unity here.

Arctic Wolf is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law. Arctic Wolf is committed to fostering a welcoming, accessible, respectful, and inclusive environment ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. As such, we strive to make our entire employee experience as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for candidates and employees with disabilities and/or other specific needs where possible. Please let us know if you require any accommodations by emailing .

Security Requirements

Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with AWN’s Information Security policies, standards, processes, and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of AWN business information (in accordance with our employee handbook and corporate policies).

Background checks are required for this position.