Backed by a16z.
About the role
Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. 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.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.
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.
The work we do matters.
- 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
- Write clean, working, and reusable code, backed by...
Browse similar: Startup jobs