We make consumer technology products for families: Skylight Frame & Skylight Calendar
Senior Back End Engineer, AI Features
Location
Colorado + 1 moreAll locations: Colorado | New York
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$180K - $240K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Back End Engineer, AI Features
Skylight
• 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
Job Requirements
- 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
- Nice to Haves
- 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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