Staff UX Software Engineer at Sonatype

Role overview

Sonatype is the software supply chain management company that invented componentized software development and pioneered the software supply chain category. 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.

Our 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.

From 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

Sonatype 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.

If 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.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technical work for user experience software engineering.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, customer and support teams.
• Improve reliability, documentation, troubleshooting and operational quality.
• Translate technical requirements into maintainable software or customer solutions.

Qualifications

• Create user, product, and system flow diagrams in Miro that reflect real constraints, technical realities, and team input.
• Shape conceptual designs and UX architectures for new features and continuous, iterative improvements.
• Build coded UX prototypes using Claude Code, VS Code, GitHub workflows, and front-end fundamentals (HTML/CSS/JS/React).
• Ensure your prototypes are structured enough that AI tools can generate engineering specs, scope definitions, and implementation requirements directly from your code diffs.
• Conduct lightweight, practical research (interviews, surveys, UAT, quick validation) when needed - and know when to proceed without research to keep momentum.
• Collaborate early and often to align constraints, scope, design direction, and technical feasibility.
• What You Will Do - Supporting Responsibilities
• Facilitate iterative design and exploration sessions with PMs and engineers; guide direction without owning every artifact yourself.
• Provide clear, structured UX reviews and guidance across product teams working on related areas.
• Coach engineers on UX fundamentals, usability, accessibility, and interaction patterns when it relates to a project - raising the UX baseline across teams.
• Contribute high-fidelity coded prototypes that solve customer problems in clear, easy ways while working with our design system and existing user flows
• Support the UX Guild’s goal of improving UX quality and alignment across teams without introducing heavy processes.
• Help evolve our AI-accelerated design workflows and strengthen our design system alignment.
• Teams ship better UX because your influence is pragmatic, collaborative, and grounded in technical realities.
• You make smart calls about when to research and when to ship.
• You adapt fluidly to evolving tools, processes, and AI-assisted workflows.

Technology in this role

• JavaScript: Listed by the employer as part of the role’s technical requirements.
• Java: As leaders in the open-source community and the DevSecOps industry, we run the world’s largest repository of Java open-source components—Maven .
• React: Build coded UX prototypes using Claude Code, VS Code, GitHub workflows, and front-end fundamentals .
• CAN: Ensure your prototypes are structured enough that AI tools can generate engineering specs, scope definitions, and implementation requirements directly from your code .
• Figma: 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 .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Staff UX Software Engineer position at Sonatype is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “Sonatype is the software supply chain management company that invented componentized software development and pioneered the software supply chain category. As leaders in the open-source community and the DevSecOps…” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the software engineering area, but that label is only a guide to the work; the employer’s own requirements remain decisive. Before applying.

Benefits

• Location and remote arrangement as stated in the official posting.
• Opportunity to work on software, AI, database or developer products.

About Sonatype

Sonatype develops software supply chain management and security products that help organizations use open source software and AI-assisted development with greater visibility and governance. Its portfolio includes Nexus Repository and tools for analyzing components, enforcing policy, managing software bills of materials and addressing security and quality risks across development workflows.

The company says it maintains Maven Central and has worked on open source software management for two decades. This creates a product environment spanning developer tools, artifact repositories, dependency intelligence and security automation. The exact responsibilities vary by team; candidates should check whether the opening focuses on product engineering, data, support, security research or customer delivery, and which technologies are explicitly listed.

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