Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. The Senior/Staff Software Engineer will build software products within cross-functional teams, uphold lean-agile engineering practices, select appropriate technologies, and improve system reliability and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer a software product as part of a cross-functional team, which includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists
• Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
• Select and use the right tools, frameworks, languages, and technologies for the job, with a preference for open-source solutions
• Analyze systems to identify technical debt, instability, unreliability, and other opportunities for improvement, then design, document, and communicate solutions

Requirements:

• Write clean, working, and reusable code, backed by automated tests
• Build secure, compliant software and defend against common vulnerabilities
• Understand the fundamentals of data engineering, including how to use different datastores to handle persistent data in software systems
• Understand how the pieces of a software system fit together, and design with performance, reliability, and availability in mind
• Put users at the center of your work, thinking through the impact and implications of the code you write
• Work directly with stakeholders to understand their needs, explain technical tradeoffs in plain language, and shape what gets built
• You must be a U.S. Citizen to be eligible for employment
• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories
• Ability to travel, as needed
• Experience building accessible software that meets Section 508 and WCAG standards
• Experience working in constrained or regulated environments, such as legacy systems, ATO boundaries, or FedRAMP-authorized cloud services
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and/or immutable infrastructure (e.g., Docker)
• Experience contributing to open-source projects or building software in the open