Application Developer (AD) Level 3

Bitwise • Annapolis Junction, MD

7d • Onsite

About The Position

You'll be a critical member of our innovation team as an Application Developer, working on mission-critical operations that impact national security. You'll design, develop, and integrate cutting-edge techniques and capabilities for hand-held and networked devices. Your work will be collaborative—you'll partner closely with analysts, operators, engineers, and subject matter experts to architect secure and efficient solutions to our customers' most pressing challenges. In this role, you'll research and develop proof-of-concept techniques for application communications and operations, develop and maintain embedded applications with relevant data transfer code, and reverse engineer embedded devices and networking protocols to understand and improve our capabilities. You'll elicit impact-driven requirements for tool development and use AI/LLMs to efficiently and safely accelerate development cycles. You'll work within an Agile environment where speed and precision matter equally, and where your technical leadership will help shape the direction of emerging projects.

Requirements

• 12 years of professional experience (or 10 years with a Master's degree; 4+ years of additional software engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree)
• Technical leadership experience in development teams
• Strong network stack and programming experience
• Expertise working with Linux/Unix environments
• Production-grade software development experience in C/C++, Python, or Rust
• Proficiency with Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Active or ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance with polygraph
• Must be a U.S. citizen and able to work in San Antonio, Texas

Nice To Haves

• Rust proficiency
• Mitmproxy experience
• Ghidra/radare2 experience
• Mobile development experience

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and integrate cutting-edge techniques and capabilities for hand-held and networked devices
• Partner closely with analysts, operators, engineers, and subject matter experts to architect secure and efficient solutions to our customers' most pressing challenges
• Research and develop proof-of-concept techniques for application communications and operations
• Develop and maintain embedded applications with relevant data transfer code
• Reverse engineer embedded devices and networking protocols to understand and improve our capabilities
• Elicit impact-driven requirements for tool development and use AI/LLMs to efficiently and safely accelerate development cycles

Benefits

• Top salaries because we're top performers
• Pick your PTO — Everyone values time and money differently, so we give you the flexibility to choose between 3 and 5 weeks of PTO with a corresponding adjustment to your pay. Your choice, your balance.
• All 11 federal holidays, paid!
• Up to 2 snow days, paid!
• We'll quadruple (4x!) the first 6% you contribute to your 401(k), giving you up to a 24% company match. Contributing less than 6%? Unclaimed matches come right back to you as extra income, giving you a guaranteed 24% that goes to your retirement, to your paycheck, or both. C'mon now!
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurances. That's a lot. Already covered on health insurance? No problem — we'll trade you this benefit for a boost to your salary instead.
• $5,250 annual education assistance for training, certifications, tuition, and even student loan repayments.
• Spot bonuses for obtained certifications, customer recognition, and just about anything else that makes us go "Hot damn!". We hope to say that many times about you.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level