Skylight

Skylight

Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (ACF)

United States · Staff+ · Full-time

No sponsorship$90k-$125kDetected 15 days ago
PythonNext.jsFastAPIFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLCloud PlatformsDockerTerraformCI/CDData EngineeringLLMsRAGAccessibilityBusiness DevelopmentLogisticsTest Automation

About the role

  • We're at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.
  • If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we'd love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize the platform's LLM-powered features - semantic search across a knowledge base, prompt engineering, and retrieval quality - so foster youth get accurate, relevant guidance
  • Build accessible, Section 508-compliant interfaces and the APIs and services behind them, keeping secure data exchanges reliable and performant
  • Build secure, compliant software that meets federal security standards and defends against common vulnerabilities
  • Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering practices such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
  • You'll join a small cross-functional team of researchers, designers, product managers, and engineers helping the roughly 20,000 young people who age out of foster care each year get the support they're entitled to.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and improving RAG based LLM systems including semantic search
  • Experience designing multiple LLM/agent interactions to search and refine data sets
  • Experience using LLMs to aggregate, refine, and review data sets
  • Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code
  • Familiarity with our specific stack: Python (LangChain and FastAPI), Postgres with pgvector, Next.js, and embedding and chat models such as Amazon Titan and Claude
  • Experience working with databases and/or cloud infrastructure
  • Familiarity with CI/CD best practices
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Docker, Terraform)
  • Don't meet every qualification but think you can do the job?

Skills

  • About Skylight
  • About the job
  • This software is built to meet the needs of young adults transitioning out of the foster care system.
  • Visit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works.
  • Check out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.
  • Browse our case studies to learn more about our work.

Compensation

  • We want to give you the most competitive salary possible.
  • To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority.
  • For a Software Engineer at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:
  • Associate Software Engineer: $90,000-$125,000
  • Software Engineer I: $120,000-$140,000
  • Software Engineer II: $135,000-$160,000
  • Annual $2000 allowance for professional development
  • Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
  • Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
  • Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year

Benefits

  • Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
  • Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
  • Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
  • Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.
  • Flexible, remote-friendly work environment

Company info

  • Engineer a software product end-to-end - frontend and backend - as part of a cross-functional team that includes researchers, designers, product managers, and other engineers
  • What we're looking for
  • This is a fast-moving, zero-to-one effort - greenfield development on a new public-facing federal platform, at national scale.

Equal opportunity

  • We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
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