Senior or Staff Backend Engineer

1 hour, 33 minutes 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 and maintain robust backend APIs and services.
  • Build reliable, scalable backend systems for consumer products used by millions.
  • Optimize backend infrastructure to improve performance and reliability.
  • Develop features that matter to customers and support the company’s products and business goals.
  • Collaborate with engineers across other stacks and cross-functional partners in retail, customer support, and data.
  • Work closely with non-technical stakeholders to design and deliver customer-facing features.
  • Architect, implement, test, and maintain backend services over time.
  • Identify ways systems can work better and leave technical systems in better shape than found.

Requirements

  • Strong engineering foundation and a desire to own meaningful systems.
  • Deep experience building reliable, scalable backend systems.
  • Track record of architecting, implementing, testing, and maintaining backend services.
  • Experience with Skylight’s stack, including Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/TypeScript Lambdas.
  • Experience with modern Rails/Ruby versions.
  • Experience building fast, well-tested applications.
  • Strong communication skills in both technical writing and spoken communication.
  • Ability to contribute to deep technical discussions across team and stack boundaries.
  • Comfort working with non-technical stakeholders to design and build features.
  • Preferred: an inexplicable love of goats, the backend team mascot.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary plus equity package.
  • 401(k) matching.
  • Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets.
  • Health, dental, and vision medical plans.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Company holidays on the first Friday of every month, except November and December.
  • Tremendous autonomy to set the direction of your work.
  • U.S.-based hiring with compensation range of $180K–$220K depending on experience for Colorado and California candidates.

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