Job Description

ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED

We are seeking a versatile Full-Stack Systems Engineer to join a small, high-impact team in Annapolis Junction, MD, delivering enterprise web services hosted in AWS. In this mid-level role, you won't just take tasks off a board; you will own features end-to-end, drive system architecture decisions, and elevate the reliability and performance of systems that end-users love. As an engineer at Nyla, you are ever-curious and eager to make a direct impact. Working with limited supervision, you will design and implement features across the full stack-from intuitive user interfaces to secure backend APIs and data layers. You will take true ownership of services in production, driving continuous deployments, proactive monitoring, and root-cause troubleshooting. If you thrive in an Agile environment where clean code, creative problem-solving, and team collaboration come together to support critical missions, Team Nyla is looking for you.

The annual base salary range for this role is $170,000-$201,000 (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

Full-Stack Development: Professional experience developing software across the stack using one or more primary languages/frameworks (PHP, .NET/C#, Java, Node.js, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue.js, or React).

Linux Operations: Hands-on experience configuring, operating, and managing software deployed on Linux platforms (service configuration, log parsing, basic networking, and shell automation).

API Development & Security: Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles, web authentication/authorization standards, and secure coding practices.

Database Management: Practical experience working with relational databases, including database design, query optimization, and index tuning.

Agile Collaboration: Demonstrated capability to communicate effectively, estimate effort accurately, and deliver working software iteratively within an Agile team.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, PLUS 7+ years of professional software development experience OR High School Diploma / GED, PLUS 11+ years of hands-on technical software engineering experience in lieu of a degree.

Desired Skills

Hands-on experience building, deploying, and managing applications in AWS (IAM, EC2, ALB, S3, RDS, CloudWatch) or Azure equivalents.

Practical experience configuring and tuning web/application servers (Nginx, Apache, Tomcat).

Automation and scripting proficiency using Python or PowerShell, along with familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools.

Direct experience supporting production web services, including participating in incident response and on-call rotations.