Senior Software Developer

Summary

Join AnaVation's growing team as a Software Developer specializing in mobile device forensic analysis and reverse engineering. You will design, develop, test, and integrate software features, collaborating with a geographically dispersed team. Responsibilities include applying robust software engineering and database practices to solve complex technical challenges. You will work closely with data architects and developers to ensure the data model aligns with software use cases. This hybrid role is mostly remote, with occasional on-site work in Lorton, VA, and requires an active Top-Secret clearance and the ability to obtain SCI access. The position offers opportunities to learn and develop advanced skillsets within a high-performing team.

Requirements

• The successful candidate will have a broad but strong skillset with numerous programming languages and experience collaborating with other developers
• Bachelor’s Degree required, with a preference in the areas of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineer, or related discipline
• Minimum of six years of experience as a Software Developer
• Proficient with Python
• Experience with C or other programming languages
• Mobile app development or systems experience
• Source control management with Git
• Relational databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or SQLite
• Mobile application decompiling
• Comfortable viewing, analyzing, and understanding raw binary data
• Excellent skills with developer documentation
• Excellent skills with collaborative coding and ability to adopt shared coding practices
• Excellent skills developing quality code using best practices such as unit testing
• Experience collaborating closely in Agile development teams for the development of software tools, including the ability to manage workloads through issue tracking software
• Experience using industry standard RE tools (IDA Pro, Ghidra, JEB, Hopper) to determine the function of closed-source software
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Come join our growing team and make a difference every day!
• As part of a high-performing team, the selected candidate will be part of a software research and development team focusing on mobile device forensic analysis including mobile device reverse engineering
• The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and integrating software features as a member of a geographically dispersed team, either independently or with limited supervision
• They will apply robust software engineering and database practices to address complex technical challenges, ensuring the delivery of reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions
• The strongest of software developers will thrive and take advantage of the opportunity to learn and further develop their advanced skillsets
• The candidate will also be required to interface directly with data architects and software developers to ensure that the data model is able to capture the use cases that the software systems are responsible for

Preferred Qualifications

• C, C++ programming language
• Rust programming language
• Knowledge of common mobile architectures and their associated instructions, including x86 and ARM
• OS Level expertise in Linux (or similar)
• Experience with GNU Debugger (GDB)
• Experience identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities, such as memory corruption through stack overflows, heap overflows, integer overflows, and logical flaws
• Software release management experience
• Experience with Atlassian suite and software project management
• Computer Network Operations (CNO) experience

Benefits

• Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
• 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
• 100% company paid long-term and short term disability insurance
• 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
• 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
• Competitive Pay
• Generous paid leave and holiday package
• Tuition and training reimbursement
• Life and AD&D Insurance