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Fairfax, VA
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
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Job Description
Position:
C++/Qt Backend Developer
Location:
Fairfax, VA
Job Id:
585
# of Openings:
1
C++/Qt Backend Developer
Location: Fairfax, VA
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Active Top Secret/SCI
About NASK
NASK has over twenty-five years of experience delivering innovative, mission-critical solutions to the Intelligence and Defense communities. Our teams combine deep technical expertise with a passion for solving the toughest challenges. Collaboration, innovation, and integrity define our culture — empowering engineers to create impactful solutions that advance national security objectives.
Our Culture
NASK builds resilient, scalable teams by pairing strong mentorship with meaningful leadership opportunities. The diversity of our missions creates constant opportunities to grow skills and take on new challenges. We value clear communication and collaboration, and we believe the best solutions can come from anyone on the team.
Engineers at NASK are hands-on. We prioritize rapid delivery of working mission solutions and favor measurable, incremental progress over perfection. Engineers move the mission forward by writing code, collaborating with senior engineers, and working across teams to incorporate input from users, operators, and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Who we are:
Our people are the core of who we are and what we do. NASK has two decades of experience delivering innovative solutions to the tough technical challenges facing our partners in the Intelligence and Defense communities. Our subject matter experts collaborate with junior developers and analysts, bringing fresh approaches to solve the toughest mission problems.
Benefits:
At NASK, our employees are the backbone of our company, so we provide unsurpassed benefits and work-life balance. Employees are provided with individual offices and collaboration spaces to foster individual and team success. We have a casual yet professional work environment – Employees work hard, and NASK offers a competitive benefits package that equates to 50% on top of your annual base salary. This is split between a tax-qualified profit-sharing retirement plan that NASK contributes to (up to allowable IRS limits) and a cafeteria plan for benefits. For a comprehensive overview of our benefits, visit the benefits tab under our careers page: https://nask.world/company/careers/
Compensation:
NASK Incorporated considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the role and responsibilities, work experience, education, training, certifications, geographic location, and market data. These are general guidelines and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
Please be aware that many of our positions require the ability to obtain or maintain a U.S security clearance which requires U.S citizenship.
EEO Statement:
**NASK provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfers, leaves of absence, as well as compensation and training.
**MC09
#482, 505, 585
C++/Qt Backend Developer
Location:
Fairfax, VA
Job Id:
585
# of Openings:
1
C++/Qt Backend Developer
Location: Fairfax, VA
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Active Top Secret/SCI
About NASK
NASK has over twenty-five years of experience delivering innovative, mission-critical solutions to the Intelligence and Defense communities. Our teams combine deep technical expertise with a passion for solving the toughest challenges. Collaboration, innovation, and integrity define our culture — empowering engineers to create impactful solutions that advance national security objectives.
Our Culture
NASK builds resilient, scalable teams by pairing strong mentorship with meaningful leadership opportunities. The diversity of our missions creates constant opportunities to grow skills and take on new challenges. We value clear communication and collaboration, and we believe the best solutions can come from anyone on the team.
Engineers at NASK are hands-on. We prioritize rapid delivery of working mission solutions and favor measurable, incremental progress over perfection. Engineers move the mission forward by writing code, collaborating with senior engineers, and working across teams to incorporate input from users, operators, and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Optimize performance of an interactive analytic tool suite written in C++/QT
- Maintain the functionality of the existing baseline
- Develop new tools and features based on user input and program needs
- Collaborate across teams to affect high-quality integration of the tool suite with program databases and external tools
- Develop and maintain high-quality training documentation
- Conduct in-person and remote training with operational users
- Conduct demonstrations of new features and capabilities to operational users
- Work closely with program developers and analysts to understand analytic workflows and implement improvements
- Ensure the frequent, incremental delivery of a highly stable and functional tool
Required Qualifications
- Active TS to apply
- Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
- 5+ years of experience with Qt or relevant domain expertise
- Proficient in Object-Oriented Programming (C++ preferred)
- Hands-on experience with UI design (Qt preferred)
- Familiarity with Linux environments (e.g., RedHat, CentOS)
- Skilled in version control systems (GIT preferred)
- Excellent communication and organizational abilities
Preferred Qualifications
- TS/SCI with a poly
- Strong team collaboration skills
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira)
- Background in signal processing systems
- Exposure to cloud technologies:
- AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
- Logging tools (Loki) and metrics platforms (Grafana)
- Understanding of cloud-native software development
- Experience designing and deploying scalable microservices with authentication
Who we are:
Our people are the core of who we are and what we do. NASK has two decades of experience delivering innovative solutions to the tough technical challenges facing our partners in the Intelligence and Defense communities. Our subject matter experts collaborate with junior developers and analysts, bringing fresh approaches to solve the toughest mission problems.
Benefits:
At NASK, our employees are the backbone of our company, so we provide unsurpassed benefits and work-life balance. Employees are provided with individual offices and collaboration spaces to foster individual and team success. We have a casual yet professional work environment – Employees work hard, and NASK offers a competitive benefits package that equates to 50% on top of your annual base salary. This is split between a tax-qualified profit-sharing retirement plan that NASK contributes to (up to allowable IRS limits) and a cafeteria plan for benefits. For a comprehensive overview of our benefits, visit the benefits tab under our careers page: https://nask.world/company/careers/
Compensation:
NASK Incorporated considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the role and responsibilities, work experience, education, training, certifications, geographic location, and market data. These are general guidelines and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
Please be aware that many of our positions require the ability to obtain or maintain a U.S security clearance which requires U.S citizenship.
EEO Statement:
**NASK provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfers, leaves of absence, as well as compensation and training.
**MC09
#482, 505, 585
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