Summary
Join Skylight, a digital consultancy enhancing government services, as a Software Engineer. You will engineer software products collaboratively, ensuring technical excellence through lean-agile principles. Responsibilities include selecting appropriate tools and technologies, analyzing systems for improvement, and designing solutions. You'll prioritize user-centric design and communicate effectively with clients. Passion for improving public services and alignment with Skylight's values are essential. The position is fully remote and offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
Requirements
- Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code
- Can produce high-quality code by adhering to good practices such as automated testing
- Familiar with how to build secure, compliant software and defend against common vulnerabilities
- Possess a foundational understanding of data engineering, including how to use various datastores to handle persistent data in software systems
- Understand the different pieces of software systems and how to fit them together, while keeping performance, reliability, and availability in mind
- Understand the importance of always putting users at the center of your work, including thinking through the impact and implications of any code that you write
- Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
- Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services
- A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
- Ability to travel for work from time to time
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, and design, document, and communicate solutions
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with databases and/or cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with CI/CD best practices
- 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
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