Software Engineer II (Full Time) – United States

The application window is expected to close on: 06/26/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received . We are seeking a dedicated Frontend Engineer to build intuitive, high-performance user interfaces that bring Cisco's solutions to life.

This role is primarily focused on frontend/UI development: designing, implementing, testing, and improving customer-facing web applications that help users complete complex workflows with confidence. You will develop software with simplification, accessibility, secure coding, user privacy, and user experience at the core of your work.

You will partner closely with design, product management, backend engineering, QA, and other teams to translate customer and business needs into clean, responsive, accessible, and maintainable web experiences. You will create technical design documentation for the engineering team and contribute to user-facing documentation where needed.

You will debug and address software issues during development and in production systems, bring new ideas for product innovation, and help improve frontend engineering practices across the team. You will be encouraged to use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve your development workflow, accelerate learning, generate and refine code, strengthen tests, improve documentation, and increase day-to-day engineering productivity while maintaining accountability for code quality, security, and correctness. ## What You'll Do - Build and improve frontend features for customer-facing web applications, with emphasis on usability, responsiveness, accessibility, performance, secure coding, and maintainable code. - Develop software that prioritizes simplification, accessibility, and a user-centered approach. - Translate product requirements, UX designs, and technical constraints into clean, functional UI implementations. - Design and implement reusable frontend components using modern JavaScript or TypeScript patterns and frontend frameworks or libraries. - Partner with designers and product managers to clarify user needs, iterate on prototypes, validate interaction patterns, and deliver intuitive interfaces that solve real customer problems. - Collaborate with backend/API engineers to integrate UI features with services, data models, and platform capabilities. - Contribute to straightforward business and customer problems involving product workflows, operations, services, or customer experience. - Analyze information, ask questions, and check for understanding using standard procedures within the job family. - Establish relationships and collaborate effectively with your immediate team and cross-functional partners. - Work on small-to-medium frontend features from technical design through completion. - Apply understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile engineering practices, including requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, acceptance testing, and iterative delivery. - Participate in delivery of technical designs and frontend implementation plans with guidance. - Write clean, functional, testable code and unit/component tests with guidance. - Debug, test, and troubleshoot UI behavior across supported browsers, environments, and user workflows. - Assist in code reviews and address code review feedback. - Execute tests for reliability, performance, accessibility, scale, and velocity within your own code. - Apply secure coding principles, protect user privacy, and help review code for compliance with security expectations. - Monitor and triage UI-related incident reports, participate in postmortems, and support production issues as needed. - Develop expertise in one area of the frontend codebase, design system, or product workflow. - Share knowledge from independent learning and emerging frontend best practices with the team. - Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and learning workflows while validating generated output for quality, security, and maintainability. - Estimate work, communicate status, and identify blockers, risks, or delays early. - Collaborate with team members to share learnings and assist in problem solving and resolution. ## Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree plus 2 years of related experience, or Master's degree plus 0 years of related experience. - Basic knowledge of software engineering theories, principles, and concepts within a technical discipline. - Exposure to current web development technologies through coursework, internship, project work, or professional experience. - Experience or coursework with HTML, CSS, JavaScript or TypeScript, and building user interfaces. ## Preferred Qualifications - Interest in frontend/UI development as a primary area of focus. - Experience with a modern frontend framework or library such as React, Angular, Vue, or similar. - Experience building responsive, accessible, and performant user interfaces. - Familiarity with UI/UX design tools such as Figma or Adobe XD and translating design mockups into functional code. - Understanding of API integration, state management, component-based development, reusable UI patterns, frontend build pipelines, or shared design systems. - Experience writing unit, component, integration, or end-to-end tests for web applications. - Interest in using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, explore implementation options, write or refine code, generate tests, debug issues, and improve documentation. - Ability to collaborate with UX design, product management, backend engineering, and QA to deliver user-centered product experiences. - Curiosity about simplifying complex workflows and improving product usability. - Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain implementation tradeoffs, ask clarifying questions, and communicate progress or blockers.

Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.

These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless.

We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $123,600.00 to $174,000.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.

Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations) 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows: .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota; 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid. The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below: New York City Metro Area: $123,600.00 - $200,100.00 Non-Metro New York state & Washington state: $109,900.00 - $181,600.00 * For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined. ** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.