Senior or Staff Back End Engineer, AI Features

1 day, 11 hours ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development

Skylight / Skylight Frame

Skylight makes consumer technology products for families, primarily the Skylight Frame digital picture frame and the Skylight Calendar smart family calendar. Its core pitch is helping families share photos, schedules, and reminders.

Consumer electronics
51-200

Description

  • Design, build, and launch new user-facing features powered by large language models.
  • Own major zero-to-one product initiatives in partnership with a small team.
  • Collaborate closely with Product and Design to shape new products and features.
  • Integrate third-party APIs and LLM vendors such as OpenAI and Google.
  • Contribute to the Ruby on Rails codebase.
  • Write maintainable code with strong test coverage.
  • Mentor other engineers through code reviews and design discussions.
  • Work cross-functionally with partners across retail, customer support, and data.
  • Optimize backend infrastructure for AI-powered systems.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience building software products end to end.
  • Deep mastery of Ruby on Rails or a similar back-end language.
  • Demonstrated ability to ship zero-to-one products as a solo engineer or team lead.
  • Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar LLM providers.
  • Clear communication and collaboration skills across disciplines.
  • Startup experience strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is preferred.
  • Prior work on family-facing or consumer social products is preferred.
  • Experience building AI-powered systems, including tool calls and evals.
  • Ability to work with LLM APIs and modern backend infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary plus equity package.
  • 401(k) matching.
  • Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance plans.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Company holidays on the first Friday of every month, except November and December.
  • Tremendous autonomy in setting the direction of your work.
  • Salary range of $180K-$240K based on experience for Colorado and California-based candidates.

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