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Senior Software Engineer

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Nightwing

Sterling, VA (In Person)

Full-Time

Posted 2 days ago (Updated 13 hours ago) • Actively hiring

Expires 7/24/2026

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Job Description

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. Nightwing is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with full stack experience to support a development team focused on middleware and backend services. The team focuses on the architecture, development of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that will be used by consuming applications; supporting data ingest applications and matching services for data scientists and analysts. This includes collaboration with data ingestion teams, consuming applications, system and architectural support.
  • Mandatory Skills
  • 1.
Demonstrated experience in Solr or Elastic Search a. Performing schema updates b. Possessing significant knowledge & experience in submitting Lucene queries c. Possessing significant knowledge & experience on how Solr/Elastic shards work d. Possessing significant experience tuning Solr/Elastic for performance and query optimization 2. Demonstrated experience in a big data environment using tools such as Hadoop, Pyspark, Spark, and Hbase 3. Demonstrated hands-on, back-end Java development experience implementing code that undergoes code reviews, unit testing, integration testing and deployed to a production environment 4. College degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree
  • Optional Skills
  • Demonstrated experience working with several AWS services.
  • Demonstrated experience with JIRA and GITHUB.
  • TS/SCI with Polygraph Required day 1
  • _At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork.
You'll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we'll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients._ _Thank you for considering joining us as we embark on this new journey and shape the future of cybersecurity and intelligence together as part of the Nightwing team._ _Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class._