Skyward

Senior Software Engineer

Skyward

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Rockville • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSJavaScriptPostgresPythonSvelteTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Help us ship our first customer-ready product in 90 days while establishing the technical foundation for scale.
  • Be our Swiss Army knife who can architect solutions, write production code, deploy infrastructure, and translate complex domain expertise into elegant software.
  • Partake in **architecture and technical strategy**: design system architecture for AI-first automation platform integrating LLM APIs; make critical technical decisions on frameworks, patterns, and infrastructure; translate SME domain knowledge into scalable technical solutions; balance speed-to-market with technical sustainability.
  • **Hands-on development**: build full-stack web applications; implement prompt engineering strategies and agentic workflows; write production-quality code across the stack; develop reusable components and services for AI automation.
  • **DevOps and infrastructure**: own AWS infrastructure strategy and implementation; build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for rapid iteration; implement IaC; handle release management and production operations; ensure security, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
  • **Customer-facing technical work**: build compelling demos and POCs for sales enablement; participate in early customer technical discovery; iterate on feedback to refine product-market fit; support early customer implementations.
  • If all that wasn’t enough, we’ll also need you to do some domain translation, where you will work closely with SMEs to understand complex domain problems, bridge the gap between business requirements and technical implementation, and rapidly prototype solutions to validate product hypotheses.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field.
  • Minimum of 7 years of experience in software engineering, with progressive movement into senior roles.
  • Experience taking products from concept to customers.
  • Strong backend skills with solid frontend fundamentals (Svelte, Python, Typescript/Javascript).
  • Deep knowledge of AWS services (Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, etc), architecture patterns, and best practices.
  • LLM/AI implementation experience, including working with LLM APIs in production, prompt engineering and optimization, and building agentic systems or AI workflows.
  • Infrastructure experience with Terraform/CDK, GitHub.
  • Database experience with PostgreSQL, Vector databases (Pinecone/Weaviate/similar).
  • A knack for explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Your communication skills are second to none.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision insurance (fully paid for employees)
  • 15 days of paid leave
  • 7 days of sick leave
  • 2 days bereavement leave
  • 11 paid Federal holidays
  • Up to 40 hours for jury duty
  • 401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)
  • Up to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave
  • Company provided laptop
  • $5,000 per year for professional development
  • $600 per year for technical supplies and equipment
  • $2,000 referral bonus
  • Life and disability insurance
  • HSA and FSA
  • Legal Shield and ID Shield Voluntary Benefits
  • Opportunity to work in a collaborative, motivated team focused on modernizing government services with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. Who says government work can't be exciting!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
software engineeringfull-stack developmentbackend developmentfrontend developmentprompt engineeringAI workflowsinfrastructure as codedatabase managementproduction codesystem architecture
Soft skills
communication skillsproblem-solvingcollaborationcustomer engagementtechnical translationfeedback iterationdomain expertiseadaptabilitycritical thinkingstakeholder management
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceBachelor’s degree in engineeringBachelor’s degree in mathematics