Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. The job is to engineer software systems to improve government services for users.
Requirements
- Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code
- Experience working with large-scale, production systems with attention to stability and caution
- Ability to produce high-quality code by adhering to good practices such as automated testing
- Familiarity with how to build secure, compliant software and defend against common vulnerabilities
- A foundational understanding of data engineering, including how to use various datastores to handle persistent data in software systems
- Understanding of the different pieces of software systems and how to fit them together, while keeping performance, reliability, and availability in mind
- Experience working with databases and/or cloud infrastructure
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, and design, document, and communicate solutions
Other
- Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
- Passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
- A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
- Ability to travel for time to time
- All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories.
