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# Senior Performance Software Engineer

- **Company:** Nyla Technology Solutions
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $186,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Unit Testing, Big Data, Cloud Engineering, Code Reuse, Computer Engineering, Custom Software, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Real Time Systems, Bug Reporting, Information Technology, Microservices
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=db5f1d3a39d47c27

## About the Role

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., 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., 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.



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