Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Skylight is a technology startup building the OS of the family, creating products that improve family life. They are seeking a seasoned Back End Software Engineer to develop AI-powered features, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful products.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and launch new user-facing features powered by large language models (LLMs)
- Own major product initiatives from zero-to-one, in partnership with a small but mighty team
- Collaborate deeply with Product and Design to shape new products and features
- Integrate with third-party APIs like OpenAI, Google, etc., and explore new model capabilities
- Contribute to our codebases in Ruby on Rails
- Write maintainable, high-quality code with strong test coverage
- Mentor other engineers through code reviews and design discussions
Skills
- 6+ years experience building software products end to end
- Deep mastery of either Ruby on Rails or another similar back end language
- Demonstrated ability to ship zero-to-one products as a solo engineer or team lead
- Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar LLM providers
- Clear communication and collaboration skills across disciplines
- Startup experience strongly preferred
- Familiarity with prompt engineering or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Prior work on family-facing or consumer social products
Benefits
- 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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