Skylight

Senior Backend Engineer

Skylight

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Colorado

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Salary

💰 $180,000 - $210,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

JavaScriptRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript

About the role

  • Skylight’s mission is to build the OS of the family, making consumer products like Skylight Frame and Skylight Calendar loved by millions and scaled to over $190M in annual revenue while bootstrapped
  • Seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and build internal tooling, collaborate with retail, customer support, and data teams, and maintain key APIs and backend infrastructure
  • Technical stack is primarily Ruby on Rails with some JavaScript/TypeScript Lambda functions (Rails 8.0, Ruby 3.4); comprehensive test suite runs under two minutes

Requirements

  • 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
  • An inexplicable love of goats, our unofficial backend team mascot