We make consumer technology products for families: Skylight Frame & Skylight Calendar
Senior or Staff Backend Engineer, AI Features
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$180K - $240K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Senior or Staff Backend Engineer, AI Features
Skylight
Role Description Our ideal candidate is a seasoned backend engineer with experience building AI-powered systems (tool calls, evals, etc.) and a passion for creating products and features that really matter to customers. You know how to work with LLM APIs, optimize backend infrastructure, and work closely with not only engineers from other stacks, but also cross-functional partners, from retail to customer support to data. We're looking for someone who loves finding simple, straightforward technical solutions to complex problems. We're looking for a seasoned Back End Software Engineer (Senior or Staff level) to work directly with our GM of New Businesses to build out new AI-powered features across our platform. You'll work primarily in Ruby on Rails to bring brand new products and features to life by integrating with LLMs from vendors like OpenAI, Google, etc. What You'll Do - 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 Qualifications - 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) Equal Opportunity Employer Skylight is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you’re the best person for the job, we want you on board! Salary Information For Colorado-based candidates, the range being offered for this role is $180-$240K based on experience and for California-based candidates, the range being offered for this role is $180-$240K based on experience.
Related Guides
Related Job Pages
More Backend Engineer Jobs
Mid-Level Back-End Developer | Products
BigDataCorpThe data platform for the digital age! The best data for your business, ethically and transparently sourced.
Role Description A área de Produtos é responsável por desenhar, evoluir e coordenar todo o portfólio de soluções da BigDataCorp, conectando as necessidades do mercado à capacidade técnica da empresa. O escopo vai da concepção de novos produtos e funcionalidades — sempre a partir do problema do cliente — até a priorização da evolução das soluções já existentes, passando pela definição de como elas são entregues, precificadas e medidas. Para isso, a área atua na fronteira entre tecnologia, negócio e experiência do usuário, traduzindo tendências e oportunidades em soluções concretas e garantindo que cada entrega gere valor real para quem usa nossos dados e produtos. - Aplicar conceitos de engenharia de dados para a geração e validação da integridade de bases de dados; - Automação de fluxos complexos; - Desenvolver e manter sistemas de alta performance (ex. serviços, processos, APIs REST, SDKs, bibliotecas de apoio, etc); - Interagir com diversas tecnologias de bancos de dados; - Trabalhar com serviços de cloud, especialmente AWS; - Avaliar, junto aos membros da equipe, a adoção de novos componentes e tecnologias. Qualifications - Experiência em linguagens orientada a objetos (experiência em C# e/ou Python será um bônus); - Experiência com uso de ferramentas de versionamento de código (GIT, SVN, etc); - Entendimento básico de análise de algoritmos; - Entendimento básico de conceitos de computação paralela; Requirements - Experiência com ETL em bases de dados. Benefits - Trabalho 100% remoto (trabalhe de onde quiser); - Escritório em RJ e SP com ambiente de trabalho descontraído (para quem quiser utilizar); - Oportunidades de crescimento e desenvolvimento; - Flexibilidade de horários (sim, mesmo em home office); - Férias flexíveis (além do regime CLT); - Plano de saúde e dental Bradesco; - Seguro de vida em grupo; - Benefício Refeição via cartão Caju; - Auxílio mensal ao home office (móveis e internet); - Vale Home Office; - OrienteMe (apoio psicológico); - Conexa Saúde (apoio psicológico e nutricional); - Wellbub/GymPass; - Day Off para aniversários; - Licença Maternidade de 6 meses; - Licença Paternidade de 1 mês; - Auxílio-creche; - Convênio SESC; - Game night (presencial no escritório do RJ e online no Discord); - BDC Learning e BDC Decola (programa de desenvolvimento e crescimento dos nossos profissionais através do subsídio de treinamentos diversos, como cursos, palestras, livros e outros); - Equipe unida e sempre pronta para apoiar.
• Contributing to a professional-grade trading platform ecosystem — spanning desktop and web trader solutions and order management — where performance, reliability, and low latency are non-negotiable • Making architecture decisions and explaining them clearly to a distributed international team
• Join a team building cloud-based, event-driven services • Work closely with Front-End developers to deliver performant, secure, and resilient solutions • Take full ownership of your code — from design and development through deployment, monitoring, and production support • Contribute to an Agile team culture that values testing, documentation, and continuous delivery • Participate in an on-call schedule as expected
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following established coding standards and best practices. • Assist in developing, maintaining, and enhancing software applications using .NET technologies. • Support debugging, troubleshooting, and resolving software issues to ensure application stability and performance. • Contribute to unit testing and participate in functional and regression testing to maintain code quality. • Collaborate in Agile development activities, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. • Participate in code reviews to improve code quality and learn development best practices. • Work closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement new features. • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand project requirements and deliver solutions aligned with business needs. • Provide technical support and assist in resolving application-related issues. • Maintain and update technical documentation for the projects you contribute to. • Continuously learn and adapt to new tools, technologies, and development practices.
