Senior Backend Software Engineer

TKO is seeking a skilled and adaptable Backend Software Engineer to support a high-priority, highly visible malware analysis modernization program. In this role, you will join an innovative team dedicated to building, evolving, and maintaining mission-critical capabilities within a secure virtual malware containment enclave. Additionally, you will play a central role in modernizing malware enrichment services, building robust backend services and REST APIs to handle high-throughput triage and telemetry pipelines. The ideal candidate brings strong backend development fundamentals, practical experience with containerized microservices architectures, and the agility to troubleshoot complex, distributed issues across a secure operational footprint.

1. Backend Java REST Development: Demonstrated experience developing performant, maintainable, and testable backend services and RESTful APIs using Java (headless/service-layer focus, no front-end required) within modern IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse).
2. Containerization Deployment: Proven hands-on experience packaging, deploying, and debugging applications within containerized ecosystems using Docker and Kubernetes.
3. Complex System-Wide Debugging: Demonstrated capability to troubleshoot, trace, and resolve intricate cross-service and distributed system defects across operational infrastructures.
4. Agility Task Prioritization: Proven track record of multitasking and pivoting quickly across dynamic project backlogs to address high-priority mission needs.
5. Version Control Collaborative Tooling: Practical experience managing codebases, branch workflows, and project lifecycles using Git and the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).

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

, Desired Skills

1. Modern Frameworks Alternative JVM Languages: Hands-on experience building microservices with Spring or Spring Boot, or writing production code in Kotlin.
2. Message-Oriented Middleware: Practical familiarity integrating and consuming asynchronous message broker platforms, such as RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or Apache Kafka.
3. Data Pipelines Ingestion: Experience building or maintaining data routing, enrichment, and pipeline workflows using Apache NiFi.
4. NoSQL Databases: Practical experience integrating and querying NoSQL data stores, specifically MongoDB.
5. Scripting Automation: Familiarity with Python for workflow automation, test suite harness development, or auxiliary analytic services.

The annual base salary range for this role is $189,000-$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., 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.

The Nyla FLEX benefit program is designed to offer you flexibility in the 3 biggest areas of your life: your pay, your leave, and your schedule.

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.

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.