About the position
At Skylight, software engineers design, implement, and maintain software systems to improve government services for users. This software is built to meet the needs of regular users of government services as well as Skylight’s partners in government.
Responsibilities
- Engineer a software product as part of a cross-functional team, which includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists.
- Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing.
- Select and use the right tools, frameworks, languages, and technologies for the job, with a preference for open-source solutions.
- Analyze systems to identify technical debt, instability, unreliability, and other opportunities for improvement, as well as design, document, and communicate solutions.
Requirements
- Can write clean working code in various programming languages that others can easily reuse.
- Ability to work in a shared codebase and follow leading programming practices.
- Possess an understanding of the different types of testing required to reliably deliver software to production.
- Can build and understand data models, encrypt data at rest and in transit, and optimize database queries.
- Understand how to build secure applications and defend against common security vulnerabilities.
- Ability to contribute to writing user stories and associated acceptance criteria from a technical perspective.
- Experience with modern front-end development using NextJS or React.
- Familiarity with AWS and Azure environments.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working with databases and/or cloud infrastructure.
- Familiarity with CI/CD best practices.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Docker, Terraform).
- Experience with multiple programming languages and/or full-stack development.
- Prior experience working in the civic tech space.
- Experience working in a remote-team environment.
Benefits
- Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Life and AD&D insurance.
- Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account.
- Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period.
- Flexible paid time off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays.
- Up to 12 weeks paid time off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents.
- Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options.
- Business development / sales bonuses.
- Referral bonuses.
- Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development.
- Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases.
- Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more).
- Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year.
- Access up to $1,000 before payday to cover emergency expenses.
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment.
- An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good.
