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Skylight · 1 month ago

Senior or Staff Backend Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$180K/yr - $220K/yr

Skylight is a company focused on building consumer products that enhance family life. They are seeking a seasoned backend engineer to design and maintain robust APIs, optimize backend infrastructure, and collaborate with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

You're excited to be part of a self-motivated and capable team that prides itself on having a massive impact per employee

You have a track record of architecting, implementing, testing, and maintaining reliable backend services

You're a first-rate communicator in both code and human language, contributing to deep technical discussions across team and tech stack boundaries

You work closely with non-technical stakeholders to design and build features that make customers' eyes light up and keep our bootstrapped business humming

You're great at figuring out how systems can work better and love having the autonomy to leave things better than you found them

Qualification

Backend services architectureAPI designMaintenanceRuby on RailsJavaScript/TypeScriptSystem optimizationCollaboration with stakeholdersCommunication skills

Required

You're excited to be part of a self-motivated and capable team that prides itself on having a massive impact per employee

You have a track record of architecting, implementing, testing, and maintaining reliable backend services

You're a first-rate communicator in both code and human language, contributing to deep technical discussions across team and tech stack boundaries

You work closely with non-technical stakeholders to design and build features that make customers' eyes light up and keep our bootstrapped business humming

You're great at figuring out how systems can work better and love having the autonomy to leave things better than you found them

Experience with our stack (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript Lambdas, modern Rails/Ruby versions, and fast, well-tested applications) is important

a strong engineering foundation

a desire to own meaningful systems

a commitment to delivering exceptional outcomes