Senior Core Systems Engineer

Nyla Technology Solutions; Maryland; On-site; USD 190,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier compensation

Nyla FLEX benefits

Generous leave and holidays

Job summary

Nyla Technology Solutions is seeking a Software Engineer to join Team Nyla in Maryland. You will design, build, maintain, and enhance complex software systems, working independently or with a skilled team.

Expect involvement in hardware/software trade-offs, COTS/GOTS integration, and end-to-end testing to ensure high-quality solutions. The role emphasizes rapid impact, continuous learning, and engineering elegance, with a compensation package that reflects senior expertise and location.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related field with 14+ years professional software development experience, or High School Diploma/GED with 18+ years hands-on development experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and enhance complex software components tailored to customer needs.
• Collaborate with engineers to tackle hardware/software trade-offs and integration work.
• Conduct end-to-end component testing and problem resolution.
• Apply continuous learning to improve engineering impact and code quality.

Skills

Software architecture

COTS/GOTS integration

Troubleshooting & testing

System analysis & modularization

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 14+ years

High School diploma / GED + 18+ years

Job description

Job Description

As a Software Engineer on Team Nyla, you will bring your technical creativity and collaborative energy to design, build, maintain, and enhance complex software components tailored to exact customer needs. Working independently or alongside a team of brilliant, ever-curious engineers, you’ll tackle everything from hardware/software trade-offs and COTS/GOTS integration to end-to-end component testing and problem resolution. If you are passionate about continuous learning, rapid impact, and engineering elegance, you'll fit right in.

The annual base salary range for this role is $190,000-$224,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.

Required Skills

• Software Development & Design: Proven ability to build, maintain, and enhance complex software systems using industry-standard design methodologies across the full development lifecycle.


• Problem Solving & Testing: Hands-on experience reviewing code, resolving software problem reports (SPRs), and testing software components against documented design requirements.


• System Trade-off & Synthesis Analysis: Track record of analyzing system-level requirements and breaking them down into modular software components, including evaluating hardware/software trade-offs and software reuse.


• COTS/GOTS Integration: Ability to evaluate and integrate Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) solutions in place of custom development where optimal.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, PLUS 14+ years of professional software engineering experience OR High School Diploma / GED, PLUS 18+ years of hands-on technical software development experience in lieu of a degree.

Desired Skills

• Experience developing for processing-intensive analytics, algorithm-heavy workflows, or real-time systems.


• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, microservices, or big data processing framework tools.


• Active involvement in continuous learning, prototype development, or emerging tech exploration.


• Outstanding communication skills with a team-first, collaborative mindset.

About Nyla Technology Solutions

Nyla Technology Solutions delivers exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Software Engineering services for the U.S. Government. Nyla embraces a forward-thinking and bold approach at every turn, earning us a solid reputation of technical trendsetters within the industry. We have a passion for developing solutions that have a quick and immediate impact on mission. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, our customers love how we tackle their most challenging problems and get things done. If you have the unique experience and expertise we are seeking, along with the desire and determination to invest your time and energy as a part of Nyla's team,

Taking Care of All of You

Nyla provides a top-of-market compensation and benefits package. And through our unique Nyla FLEX program, we custom tailor these benefits to best fit your lifestyle.

PAY

• Nyla starts with 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company. You have the flexibility to cash out your annual leave hours, opt out of other Nyla benefits, and/or arrange for additional hours on contract* (over 40 hrs/week). There’s even an option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract!

LEAVE

• Want to spend more time with the family? Want more time to travel the world? You can BUY additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks of annual leave. That’s up to 240 hours of leave plus 11 holidays! That’s not even including paid anniversary leave!

SCHEDULE

• Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love. It’s flexibility that works for you without compromising the perks!

WHAT ABOUT OTHER BENEFITS?

• Nyla's health care (medical, dental, and vision) is 100% covered by the company. We provide 10% 401k matching - with full vesting day 1! Our Professional Development offers $5,000 per year to be used towards fees, tuition, or time off for your continued growth. We even have a student loan repayment program and we provide 8 hours of volunteering annually so you can support your community, making your world a better place.

To learn more about Nyla's culture and our exceptional benefit packages click here.

Nyla is an equal opportunity employer.