Senior Backend Engineer

Skylight

Senior or Staff Backend Engineer at Skylight, building scalable systems and maintaining robust APIs. Collaborate across teams to create impactful family products in a remote work environment.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Our ideal candidate is a seasoned backend engineer with deep experience building reliable, scalable systems, and a passion for creating products and features that really matter to customers
You know how to design and maintain robust APIs, optimize backend infrastructure, and work closely with not only engineers from other stacks, but also cross-functional partners, from retail to customer support to data.
We're looking for someone who loves finding simple, straightforward technical solutions to complex problems.
The types of projects you take on, how you’re placed within our org, your title and compensation, etc., will be determined by your experience, expertise, areas of passion, and how those align with Skylight’s needs.
We love matching the right people with the right work. Experience with our stack (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript Lambdas, modern Rails/Ruby versions, and fast, well-tested applications) is important, and our bottom-line requirements are simple: a strong engineering foundation, a desire to own meaningful systems, and a commitment to delivering exceptional outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Nice to Have
An inexplicable love of goats, our unofficial backend team mascot

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Salary + Equity Package
401K matching
Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets
Health, Dental & Vision Medical Plans
Tremendous autonomy to set the direction of your work
Unlimited PTO
Company holidays on the first Friday of every month (Except November & December)

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend engineeringAPI designbackend infrastructure optimizationRuby on RailsJavaScriptTypeScriptLambdasRailstestingsystem architecture

Soft Skills

communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationautonomyteamworkcustomer focustechnical discussionadaptabilityimpact-drivencreativity