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# Application Developer/Reverse Engineer 3

- **Company:** Akina, Inc.
- **Location:** Fort Meade, MD, United States
- **Salary:** $234,000.0 - $287,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** HTML, JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Confluence, JIRA, Build Automation, Burp Suite, Signals Intelligence, Cyber Security, Computer Networks, Data Files, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Programming Tools, Data Flow Control, Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP), Systems Analysis, Mobile Application Software, Python (Programming Language), Network Monitoring, Reverse Engineering, Software Engineering, Wireshark, Web Applications, Web Traffics, Gitlab, Git, Fastapi, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Atlassian Tools, Software Coding, Docker
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/5a37e123-c19b-4570-884e-8fd8683ef7be

## About the Role

* Production-grade software development experience in Python.
 * Familiarity with HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, and other common web traffic
 * Experience with Burp Suite, browser developer tools, or Wireshark to monitor network communications
 * Service containerization and deployment with Docker/Kubernetes.
 * Familiarity with Git/Gitlab.
 * Familiarity with AI-assisted code development (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, etc.)
 * Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence).

Nice to Haves

 * Experience prototyping web applications (JavaScript).
 * Analyzing cyber security-related data sets (network traffic, OS events).
 * Knowledge of end-to-end SIGINT collection and analysis systems.
 * Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations.
 * Experience developing or reverse engineering mobile applications and communications.
 * Capable of designing and manipulating Gitlab CI/CD automated builds

AD3 Qualifications:

YOE: 12 B.S. or 10 yrs. w/ M.S., 4 yrs. of additional SWE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

## Description

You will act as a Software Engineer and Reverse Engineer in order to develop cutting edge security tools in a fast-paced, agile environment. Your work will be delivering on the client's national security mission, where you will work closely with analysts, data scientists and other software engineers. You will be expected to work largely independently, pursuing opportunities that present themselves from your research, and following up with customer needs. The customer, in CNO's Alternate Tradecraft Product Group, will provide opportunities to quickly adapt and deploy new security products, allowing your tools to be used within weeks, not years.

 * Develop Python applications to automate analysis and operational workflows
 * Reverse Engineer network traffic and web applications
 * Work with customers to collect requirements and ensure proper functionality
 * Coordinate with team of software developers to incorporate new technologies and leverage shared libraries
 * Manage dataflow and formatting to integrate into client systems


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