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# Applications Developer - Full Performance

- **Company:** NIGHTWING LLC
- **Location:** Sterling, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $64,000.0 - $128,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Application Frameworks, Digital Architecture, Design of User Interfaces, Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Software Engineering, Apache Solr, Spring-boot, NestJS, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Jenkins
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/93E06AA231CC407984975E37D70586B1/job/

## About the Role

* Ability to lead and direct design thinking for applications

 * Strong working knowledge of RDS SQL

 * Working experience with Solr and Python

 * Experience with Jenkins

 * Experience with Rest APIs

 * Working experience with AWS technologies (EC2, S3, SQS, SNS)

 * Experience with application frameworks (Spring Boot, NodeJS-NestJS)

 * Expert knowledge of UI design principles and techniques

 * Ability to work well with others as well as independently

 * Ability to work well in a constantly evolving work environment

 * Strong presentation skills

 * BS/BA in Software Engineering, Science, Mathematics, or similar OR equivalent combination of education and experience

## Description

Nightwing is seeking an Applications Developer to support applications development and operations and maintenance of a variety of systems and initiatives focused on streamlining operations, automating processes, and aligning customer solutions to the overarching digital architecture. The ideal candidate will help promote state-of-the-art IT solutions, collaborating with IT mission partners to share technology and lessons learned and ensure records management processes and requirements are included in the early design stages of IT solutions across the Intelligence Community. Additionally, this individual will work in concert with the customer technical interfaces to ensure future plans for technology are in line with the plans for the overall customer architecture.


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